Mardi Gras
I needed to know when Mardi Gras will be this year and next year. I did a quick Google and found the actual day will always fall on a Tuesday, therefore it is called “Fat Tuesday,” and it can be anywhere between February 3 and March 9.
The entire Carnival season and celebration always starts on January 6, which is the “Twelfth Night” or also called the “Feast of Epiphany. So there are parades and parties almost every weekend from the middle of January through Fat Tuesday.
All the fun comes to an end at Midnight on Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday., which is when Lent begins. Ash Wednesday is always going to be 46 days before Easter and Fat Tuesday is always the day before Ash Wednesday.
Easter is the holiday that changes so much each year. It can fall on any Sunday from March 23 to April 25. The exact date of Easter coincides with the first Sunday after the full moon following a Spring Equinox!
Whew! If all of this is too much to absorb, you can always go to one of the big Mardi Gras web sites and look up the dates on their site. But I did want to know why it changes around and thought it would be cool to share the info here.