This is a list with the most important dates of the liturgical calendar for this month of April 2025. It includes the festivities of known saints, as well as the most important celebrations, marked by the end of Lent, Holy Week and the beginning of Easter.
April 6 – V Sunday of Lent
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Last Sunday of Lent. The gospel of Mass presents Jesus hugging each human being with his mercy: the character of the passage is the woman discovered in adultery (see: John 8, 1-11): “Then Jesus straightened and asked:” Woman, where are those who accuse you? Has anyone condemned you? ” She replied: “No one, sir.” And Jesus said: “Nor do I condemn you. Go away and you don’t sin again.”
April 7 – San Juan Bautista La Salle
“Memory of San Juan Bautista de la Salle, presbyter, who in Reims, of Normandy, in France, dedicated itself hard to the human and Christian instruction of children, especially the poor, instituting the congregation of the brothers of the Christian schools, by which he endured many tribulations, being deserving of gratitude by the people of God (1719)” (Roman martyrology).
April 11 – Dolores Friday
The “Friday of Dolores” is a commemoration of the pain of the Mother of God. It is celebrated on Friday before Palm Sunday, one week from Good Friday. On this day, the faithful are directed to Santa María under the invocation of the “painful” with the intention of accompanying her in the days before Holy Week, days of distressing wait for the Virgin.
April 13 – Palm Sunday
Ramos Sunday is the entrance door to Holy Week, in which we contemplate the last moments of Jesus’ life on earth and the mysteries around his passion, death and resurrection. This Sunday focuses at the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem, sitting in a chick, welcomed by a festive crowd that screams Hosanna to David’s son! (Mt 21, 9). The main liturgy includes the procession of palms and olive branches.
April 17 – Holy Thursday
Holy Thursday is the first day of the Pascual Triduum. This remembers the last dinner that Jesus celebrated with his apostles and in which he instituted two sacraments: the Eucharist and the priestly order. The main liturgy of the day is the Mass of the Lord’s Supper that incorporates the feet wash. In the morning, the Chrism Mass must be celebrated in which the Holy Crisma is consecrated and the oils that will be used in the sacraments of the Christian initiation are bless. In that same celebration, the renewal of the priestly promises of presbyters and priests incardinated in a diocese is renewed.
April 18 – Good Friday
It is Friday of the Lord’s passion, the day Jesus suffered and was crucified. The liturgy is nourished by expressions, however on this day the Eucharist is not celebrated. The faithful participate in the Crucis via, listen to the “sermon of the seven words” and carry out similar public processions or acts. The Church, in the afternoon, invites the celebration of the passion of the Lord in which the faithful, in addition to remembering the last moments of Christ’s life, are prostrated before their redemptive cross.
April 19 – Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is the day of waiting, the day of silence, of the “concealment of God” (Benedict XVI). The body of Jesus remains in the sepulcher.
It is the day when it is remembered that the Lord descended to hell to rescue those who died waiting for redemption. Meanwhile, the Church awaits the resurrection.
It is also the “time” of Maria’s faith, because she, confident in her son’s promises, teaches us to stay serene in the face of uncertainty and fear. Holy Saturday is an auspicious opportunity for the prayer of the Holy Rosary in community.
At night the Pascual vigil is celebrated, in which a count of the history of salvation is made and in which the Church joins jubilant to exclaim in the midst of darkness: Christ has risen! Christ has defeated death and sin!
April 20 – Sunday of the Lord’s Resurrection – Start of Easter eighth
Easter Sunday is the day of the resurrection of Christ. It is also known as Easter of Resurrection or Easter Florida. It is the central day of the Christian faith in which Jesus Christ is commemorated from among the dead, three days after his crucifixion. All the promises of God have been fulfilled and the Church is enjoyed in the gift of a new life in Christ.
On Easter Sunday also marks the end of Holy Week and the Pascual Triduum. It is the first day of the eighth of Easter- the great Sunday of eight days- and of the Pascual Time- period of fifty days in which the joy for the victory of Christ is prolonged. Pascual weather concludes the day of Pentecost.
April 21 – Angel Monday
Second day of Easter. The Church celebrates that it was an angel in charge of announcing the group of women who had come to the sepulcher that Christ was no longer among the dead: “Why are you looking for among the dead to whom she is alive? He is not here, he has risen” (Lk 24, 5-6).
April 27 – Domingo de la Divina Misericordia – II Sunday of Easter time
The Church celebrates on Sunday of Divine Misericordia, established at the request of Pope San Juan Paul II in 2000, under the inspiration of Santa Faustina Kowalska. Since that year, on the Sunday following the Sunday of Resurrection it is destined to the celebration of the Divine Mercy (Second Easter Sunday), with which the Easter Eighth concludes. Saint John Paul II established this party with the purpose of remembering that God is merciful and loves everyone.
28 de abril – Santa Gianna Beretta
Santa Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962), wife, mother of a family and doctor. Gianna resigned to undergo cancer treatment to protect the life of the baby she was carrying in her belly. Pope San Pablo VI said: “(Beretta) was a mother who, to give birth to her baby, sacrificed her own in a deliberate immolation.”
Gianna Beretta is considered a hero of the defense of human life. Today is Patron of Mothers, pregnant women, doctors and children to be born. He is also patron saint of women suffering from uterine and breast cancer.
April 28 – St. Louis
“San Luis María Grignon de Montfort, presbyter, who evangelized the western regions of France announcing the mystery of eternal wisdom and founded two congregations. He preached and wrote about the cross of Christ and the true devotion to the
Blessed Virgin, and after turning many, rested from his earthly pilgrimage in the village of Saint-Laurent-Sur-Sèvre (1841) ”(Roman martyrology).
April 29 – Santa Catalina de Siena
“Memory of Santa Catalina de Siena, Virgen and Doctor of the Church, who, having entered the sisters of the penance of Santo Domingo, eager to meet God in herself and herself in God, struggled to resemble Christ crucified and also worked energetic and tirelessly for peace, so that the Roman Pontiff returned to the city and by the unity of the Church, leaving splendid documents full spiritual doctrine (1380) ”(Roman martyrology).
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