Easter cycle

Easter Easter cycle or circle is the annual cycle of Easter -related religious holidays. This cycle starts on Septuagesima, 70 days before Easter and ends 50 days later, on Pentecost. The most important days in this circuit:
 * Fasting for [1]
 * Septuagesima (70 days before Easter)
 * Sexagesima (60 days before Easter)
 * Sunday before Lent (50 days or seven weeks before Easter)
 * Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday)


 * Lent ( period )
 * Ash Wednesday (46 days before Easter)
 * Passion Sunday (until 1969 the second-last Sunday before Easter)
 * Holy Week
 * Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter, too: Palm Sunday, and since 1969 also Passion Sunday)
 * Schorselwoensdag (Wednesday before Easter)
 * Holy Thursday (Thursday before Easter) (from the evening Mass Easter Triduum )
 * Good Friday (Friday before Easter)
 * Holy Saturday (the day before Easter)


 * Easter Time
 * Easter (Sunday, too: Easter Sunday or Easter Sunday)
 * Easter Monday (Easter Monday, the day after Easter)
 * Octave of Easter or Quasimodo Sunday (Sunday after Easter Easter octave =)
 * Jubilate (third Sunday after Easter)
 * Cross Days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension)
 * Ascension Day (40th day of Easter, so 39 days after Easter, 10 days before Pentecost, always on a Thursday)
 * Pentecost (seven weeks after Easter)

Easter falls each year on a different date, see Computus .
 * Ember days (Wednesday after Pentecost, until 1969, the Friday and Saturday)
 * Trinity, or the feast of the Holy Trinity (Sunday after Pentecost)
 * Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi (Thursday after the feast of the Holy Trinity, second Thursday after Pentecost. Being moved in Belgium and the Netherlands to the next Sunday, the second Sunday after Pentecost)
 * the Feast of the Sacred Heart (third Friday after Pentecost).

[Trivia Edit ]
The saying, "If Easter and Pentecost fall on one day 'means as much as ever! The saying, "If Easter falls on a Monday" has the same meaning.