When is Easter Sunday in 2024? When are Good Friday and Passover? Dates to know

Spring is around the corner, which means the return of the highly-anticipated Christian season: Lent.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians worldwide observe a period of reflection, prayer and penance. Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.

Unlike other Christian holidays celebrated on the same date every year – such as Christmas – Easter and the entire Lenten season are based on the lunar cycles of the Hebrew calendar. So the dates vary from year to year.

Here's a list of dates for Ash Wednesday, Easter and Passover this year.

When is Easter Sunday this year?

Easter Sunday will be observed on March 31, 2024.

The date is different every year and falls on the first Sunday of the first full moon after the vernal equinox, also called the Paschal Full Moon.

The Eastern Orthodox Church follows a Julian calendar instead of the typical Gregorian, and its Easter celebrations are on the following Sunday, May 5.

When is Good Friday?

Lent ends three days before Easter Sunday on Thursday, March 28. This day is known as Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, and it commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, per Good Housekeeping.

When is Passover 2024?

This year, Passover begins on the evening of Monday, April 22, and ends on the evening of Tuesday, April 30. The Seder feast is held the first two nights of Passover and will be April 22-24 this year.

When was Ash Wednesday in 2024?

Ash Wednesday happened on Feb. 14 this year, coinciding with Valentine's Day.

When did Lent begin?

Lent began with Ash Wednesday, which is Feb. 14.

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