When is Lent, Ash Wednesday, Easter, Passover in 2025? Key dates in the Easter season
The dates of the Jewish holiday of Passover are also based on a lunar calendar and change year to year. In 2025, Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on April 20, 2025. Passover, or Pesach, commemorates the Israelites exodus from Egypt.
Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Lent is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter Sunday, which ends on the Thursday before Easter.
This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March, almost a full month later. Here’s when Ash Wednesday, ...
Ash Wednesday, also known as the Day ... is dedicated to personal reflection and preparation for Easter. One of the main components of Lent is fasting, to recognize Jesus's sacrifice observers ...
Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, March 5 this year. In Western churches, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a period ...
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