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Lent is a holy time celebrated in the Christian calendar, and the dates change every year. Find out when the event that leads up to Easter Sunday starts and when Lent ends in 2023.
[161] [162] Catholic priests wear white vestments on solemnity days for St. Joseph (March 19) and the Annunciation (March 25), although these solemnities are transferred to another date if they fall on a Sunday during Lent or at any time during Holy Week. On the fourth Sunday of Lent, rose-coloured (pink) vestments may be worn in lieu of violet.
Laetare Sunday (Church Latin: ; Classical Latin: [lae̯ˈtaːre]; English: / l iː ˈ t ɛər i /) is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration within the austere period of Lent.
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Mothering Sunday always falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetare Sunday), 3 weeks before Easter Sunday. 31 March 2019; 22 March 2020; 14 March 2021; 27 March 2022; 19 March 2023; 10 March 2024; 30 March 2025; 15 March 2026; 7 March 2027; 26 March 2028; 11 March 2029; 31 March 2030; 23 March 2031; 7 March 2032; 27 March 2033
Great Lent, or the Great Fast (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή, Megali Tessarakosti or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, Megali Nisteia, meaning "Great 40 Days", and "Great Fast", respectively), is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity.
The date of Pascha is central to the entire ecclesiastical year, determining not only the date for the beginning of Great Lent and Pentecost, but affecting the cycle of moveable feasts, of scriptural readings and the Octoechos (texts chanted according to the eight ecclesiastical modes) throughout the year. There are also a number of lesser ...
Dates for the Paschal Triduum, 2021–2029 Year Western Eastern; 2021 April 1 – April 3 April 29 – May 1 2022 April 14 – April 16 April 21 – April 23 2023 April 6 – April 8 April 13 – April 15 2024 March 28 – March 30 May 2 – May 4 2025 April 17 – April 19 April 17 – April 19 2026 April 2 – April 4 April 9 – April 11 2027