The Christian year

The Christian Calendar 2031

Lent 2031 begins on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2031, and its forty days end on Holy Saturday, April 12; Easter Sunday is April 13, 2031. Orthodox Easter falls on the same day in 2031. Pentecost is Sunday, June 1, and Advent begins on Sunday, November 30, 2031.

Every date of the Christian year in 2031

When does Lent start in 2031?

Lent 2031 starts on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2031, the day after Shrove Tuesday (February 25). Its forty days, not counting the Sundays, run to Holy Saturday, April 12, and the season gives way to Easter on Sunday, April 13. Some traditions close Lent on the evening of Maundy Thursday, when the three holy days begin. In the Orthodox churches, Great Lent begins on Clean Monday, February 24, 2031.

When is Holy Week 2031?

Holy Week 2031 runs from Palm Sunday, April 6, to Holy Saturday, April 12, and ends in the joy of Easter morning. These are the days the Church walks with Jesus into Jerusalem, to the table, to the cross and to the tomb.

When is Easter 2031?

Easter Sunday 2031 is April 13, 2031 in the Western churches (Catholic, Protestant and Anglican). Orthodox Easter (Pascha) is Sunday, April 13, 2031. In 2031 Western and Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter on the same Sunday, Sunday, April 13, 2031, so the whole Church proclaims the risen Christ on one day.

The two dates differ because the churches keep the same ancient rule with two different calendars. Western churches reckon Easter by the Gregorian calendar; most Orthodox churches still reckon it by the older Julian calendar, which now runs thirteen days behind, and by an older table of the moon. So in some years the dates fall together, and in others they are one, four or five weeks apart.

How is the date of Easter set?

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after March 21. That full moon is not observed in the sky but read from fixed church tables, which is why it is called the ecclesiastical full moon. The Council of Nicaea in 325 asked that all Christians keep the resurrection on the same Sunday, and the tables that carry out that wish were worked out by the church of Alexandria and refined over the centuries that followed. In the West, Easter can fall on any Sunday from March 22 to April 25, and every other moveable day of the year counts from it: Ash Wednesday comes 46 days before, Ascension 39 days after, and Pentecost 49 days after.

When is Pentecost 2031?

Pentecost 2031 is Sunday, June 1, 2031, the fiftieth day of Easter, counting Easter itself. Ascension Day comes ten days before it, on Thursday, May 22, 2031, and Trinity Sunday follows a week later, on Sunday, June 8, 2031.

When does Advent start in 2031?

Advent 2031 begins on Sunday, November 30, 2031, the fourth Sunday before Christmas, and opens a new Christian year. Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the old year, comes the week before, on Sunday, November 23, 2031. Christmas Day 2031 falls on a Thursday.

What each season is for

The Christian year is the life of Jesus told through time, so that a whole year of ordinary days is spent walking with him.

• Advent: Advent is the beginning of the Christian year, the four weeks before Christmas spent waiting and preparing for the coming of Christ, both his birth in Bethlehem and his promised return.
• Christmas: Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, when God so loved the world that he came into it as a child.
• Epiphany: Epiphany celebrates the revealing of Christ to the world, remembered above all in the wise men who followed the star to worship the newborn King.
• Lent: Lent is the forty-day season of preparation before Easter, echoing the forty days Jesus fasted in the wilderness.
• Holy Week: Holy Week is the final week before Easter, walking with Jesus from his entry into Jerusalem, through the last supper and the cross, to the silence of the tomb.
• Easter: Easter is the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, the center and joy of the whole Christian faith.
• Pentecost: Pentecost, fifty days after Easter, celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first believers, when the church was born and the good news went out in every language.

Questions people ask about the 2031 calendar

When does Lent start in 2031?

Lent 2031 starts on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2031, and its forty days end on Holy Saturday, April 12, 2031.

When is Ash Wednesday 2031?

Ash Wednesday 2031 is February 26, 2031.

When is Holy Week 2031?

Holy Week 2031 runs from Palm Sunday, April 6, 2031, to Holy Saturday, April 12, 2031. Maundy Thursday is April 10, 2031 and Good Friday is April 11, 2031.

When is Easter 2031?

Easter Sunday 2031 is April 13, 2031 in the Western churches. Orthodox Easter is Sunday, April 13, 2031.

When is Pentecost 2031?

Pentecost 2031 is Sunday, June 1, 2031.

When does Advent start in 2031?

Advent 2031 begins on Sunday, November 30, 2031, the fourth Sunday before Christmas.

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