I just found out that Easter in 2026 falls on April 5th, and honestly, every year I wonder how they exactly calculate that date. It’s not fixed like Christmas, you know? It all depends on the Paschal Full Moon and some calculations that have been around for centuries.

The thing is, Holy Week starts much earlier. Ash Wednesday was February 18th, then comes Palm Sunday on March 29th, and finally Good Friday on April 3rd. Forty days of preparation excluding Sundays, basically.

I was surprised that it’s not even a federal holiday in the United States, although many places close anyway. The weird part is that Good Friday is a state holiday in ten jurisdictions. And if you’re part of the Orthodox Church, you celebrate everything a week later, on April 12th. The fact that the date falls between March 22nd and April 25th is because everything revolves around the spring equinox on March 21st.

The symbols we all know, the colored eggs, the rabbit, the lamb, represent new life and resurrection. In New York, they have parades with decorated hats that look incredible. Do you celebrate in any special way, or is it just a long weekend?