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In most Lent-observing denominations, the last week of Lent coincides with Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday. Following the New Testament narrative, Jesus' crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, and at the beginning of the next week the joyful celebration of Easter, the start of the Easter season, which recalls the Resurrection of Jesus.
Passiontide and other named days and day ranges around Lent and Easter in Western Christianity, with the fasting days of Lent numbered. Passiontide (in the Christian liturgical year) is a name for the last two weeks of Lent, beginning on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, long celebrated as Passion Sunday, and continuing through Lazarus Saturday.
The official end of Lent is on Saturday, April 8, 2023, the day before Easter Sunday. There's an entire list of events leading up to the finale that's called Holy Week. Holy Week begins with Palm ...
In that 1549 edition, the rite was headed: "The First Day of Lent: Commonly Called Ash-Wednesday". [108] The ashes ceremony was not forbidden, but was not included in the church's official liturgy. [33] Its place was taken by reading biblical curses of God against sinners, to each of which the people were directed to respond with Amen. [109] [110]
Lent is the 40-day period preceding Easter that focuses on remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus. Sundays aren’t included, but it’s actually 46 days if you count them.
In some faiths', Lent ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. For others, such as Roman Catholicism, Lent ends at sundown on Thursday, March 28, 2024, known as Maundy, or Holy, Thursday ...
The Friday of Sorrows is a solemn pious remembrance of the sorrowful Blessed Virgin Mary on the Friday before Palm Sunday held in the fifth week of Lent (formerly called "Passion Week"). In the Anglican Ordinariate's Divine Worship: The Missal it is called Saint Mary in Passiontide and sometimes it is traditionally known as Our Lady in Passiontide.
Ash Wednesday (aka the first day of Lent) is coming up sooner than you'd think. Here's everything you need to know about 2023 date, history and meaning.