Easter is on Sunday, March 31, this year, but those celebrating the holiday religiously will start much earlier. The Friday before Easter is known to Catholics as Good Friday and honors the ...

The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in some respects looks like a traditional Mass with a rite (the veneration of the cross) added. It is not. First of all, it is not a Mass because no consecration of ...

Easter is just days away, marking an end to the Lenten season — often observed by the religious as giving up something for weeks and abstaining from meat on Fridays — as the final days of Holy Week, ...

Good Friday is the day in which Christian and Catholic churches across the world commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. "From the early days of Christianity, Good Friday was observed ...

Today is the last Friday of Lent 2025 as we head into Passover, Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Here's what to know about the Catholic holy days of Easter. Unlike many other holidays, the Easter holiday ...