For the Catholic Church and many other 'daughter' churches, the holy day 40 days after their Easter Sunday is called Ascension Thursday.
The days that Holy Week occurs during the week before Easter. Also known as the final week of lent, it begins on Palm Sunday and lasts through Holy Saturday.
holy friday
No, that is Holy Thursday, 3 days before Easter
Six weeks after Easter Sunday.Catholic AnswerChrist ascended to heaven on Thursday, forty days after Easter, and the Ascension has been celebrated on that Thursday ever since, except in dioceses where the Bishop moves the holy day obligation to the following Sunday.
The Solemnity of the Ascension is on Thursday, forty days after Easter, it celebrates Our Blessed Lord's ascension into heaven, and is followed ten days later by Pentecost when He sends the Holy Spirit down on His Church. The Ascension may be transferred to the Sunday before Pentecost in some dioceses.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Easter Triduum.
Sunday, Christmas, & Easter.
Holy Days for Apostolics and Pentecostals are: Christmas - the birth of Jesus Christ, Good Friday - the death of Jesus, Easter - the Resurrection of Jesus, and Pentecost - the sending of the Holy Ghost (7 wks after easter)
Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a "mini-Easter" and the reverent spirit of Lent is tempered with joyful anticipation of the Resurrection.
The church season of Easter lasts 49 days.
Christmas and Easter: Christmas celebrates Jesus' birth. Easter celebrates the Resurrection.
The Night Watch of the Resurrection is Holy Saturday, otherwise known as Easter Vigil, which occurs the night before Easter Sunday.