Holy Saturday, also known as the Vigil of Easter, is on Saturday, April 19. Advertisement It is meant to commemorate the Harrowing of Hell as Jesus Christ's body lay in the tomb.

Holy Week leading up to Easter is regarded as the most spiritually significant week of the year in Christianity, containing many traditions and rituals. Here's what to know.

Holy Week includes Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. When is Palm Sunday 2025? This year Palm Sunday, the day Christ entered Jerusalem, was April 13, a week ...

Easter 2022: Holy Saturday. Unsplash. LW. 15/04/2022 - 16:04 CDT. Compartir en Facebook; ... It is the last day of Lent and Holy Week, and the third day of the EasterTriduum or the three high ...

Holy Week is the most important or significant week in Catholicism. It starts with Palm Sunday on April 13, 2025 this year and ends on Easter Sunday, April 20. However there are a week's worth of ...

The Lenten season ends this week and South Jersey churches are preparing to open for blessings of foods and nighttime vigils on Holy Saturday and on Easter Sunday itself both in-church worship and ...

Holy Saturday or the Black Saturday is the final day of the Holy Week just before Easter - the last week of Lent. It takes place right after Good Friday and marks the day Jesus’ body was placed ...

Photos: Holy week celebrated by Christians around the world Easter mass is one of the longest sessions of the Catholic mass. For some, the Easter Vigil begins after sunset on Saturday night or ...

Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The origins of Easter date to the beginnings of ...

Rather than continue to have the weekly day of rest mark God’s finishing of his creation work on the last day of a week (Gen 2:1-3), the early church moved the Sabbath to “the first day of the ...