Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palm Sunday on Sunday, April 13 marked the beginning of Holy Week. The week is the most sacred week in the Christian liturgical ...

Lent is underway, and the 6-week countdown to Easter Sunday has begun. Here's what we know about Easter, Lent's start and end, Maundy Thursday, celebrating Good Friday and more in 2026: When is Easter ...

Christians today celebrate their holiest day, Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Easter has long been a mix of the secular and the sacred, of candy, flowers and ...

As previously noted, the Church’s greatest and most important liturgy of the year is the Paschal Vigil. It has pride of place. It is not just a long version of “Sunday Mass.” In the ancient Church, ...

Find today’s readings here. The Lectionary bookends the Lenten season with lovely irony. On Ash Wednesday, just before we smear our foreheads with the sign of our penitence, Jesus in the Gospel ...

March 31 — the end of another calendar month — ushers in a season of profound hope as Christians everywhere celebrate Easter, the commemoration of Christ's resurrection. Many times Easter and the ...

For followers of Christ, Easter Sunday is the apex, the glorious culmination and evidence for our faith. It matters greatly to us, because it not only means Jesus is who he said he is, but because his ...

Holy Week marks the final week of Lent for Christians and leads up to Easter Sunday. In 2026, Holy Week runs from Palm Sunday on March 29 through Easter Sunday on April 5, commemorating the events ...

Easter will be celebrated this year on Sunday, April 5. Though widely associated with the Easter Bunny, colorful eggs, and baskets of chocolate, it's a significant holiday for members of the Christian ...