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Easter 2026. The light of Jesus’ Resurrection illuminates the darkness in our world

Father Giancarlo Zamengo, in the name of the friars of the Basilica of Saint Anthony

Watch the complete greeting video message [ https://youtu.be/UKD1ZP2OLVU ].

Dear friends of Saint Anthony, over the last few days I have been asking myself what Easter message I would like to share with you on this occasion.
What does Saint Anthony suggest for Holy Easter 2026?

Detail from the sarcophagus of Manno Donati depicting the Risen Christ (died in 1370), Porch of the Convent of Sant’Antonio, Padua

Below is the calendar of the religious celebrations held in our Basilica. All the 6.00pm Holy Masses, the 11.00am ones on week days, the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass at 9.00pm and the 10.00am Easter Sunday Mass will be streamed live via web and social media on our various online platforms (see footnote below).

Franciscan Jubilee Itinerary in the Basilica, walking with Francis and Anthony

An 8-stage spiritual itinerary designed to be experienced independently by individuals, families or groups.

STAGES OF THE SPITIRUAL JOURNEY:

1) Brothers and Disciples of Jesus - The Tomb of Saint Anthony: we begin our journey by drawing near to Saint Anthony, a friar who loved and walked with Francis of Assisi on their common road of Christian discipleship. To them we entrust our prayers, that the desire to follow in the footprints of the Lord Jesus may be rekindled within us.

“Listening and Fasting: Lent as a Time of Conversion”

With the rite of Blessing and Imposition of the Ashes, the 40-day period of preparation for Easter begins. In this period Christians are urged to undertake a path of penitence and conversion.

On Ash Wednesday at the Basilica of Saint Anthony, the celebrations will follow the weekday schedule, and the 6:00 p.m. Mass will be broadcast as usual via live streaming on our web page and social media.

Feast of the Translation of the Saint’s relics: on Sunday 15 February we celebrate the discovery of Saint Anthony’s Incorrupt Tongue which took place 760 years ago

The Feast of the Translation of the Relic of the Saint, commonly called “The Feast of the Tongue”, which will be held on Sunday 15 February in our Basilica recalls an event which occurred 760 years ago in St. Anthony’s most holy site: the chapel which guarded our beloved Anthony’s mortal remains.

January 27 is the day when, in 1945, at the end of World War II, the Red Army tore down the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Sixty years later, in 2005, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which has since been remembered every January 27, with the hope that those atrocities will never happen again.

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Easter 2026. The light of Jesus’ Resurrection illuminates the darkness in our world

Holy Week and 2026 Easter

Franciscan Jubilee Itinerary in the Basilica, walking with Francis and Anthony

“Listening and Fasting: Lent as a Time of Conversion”

Feast of the Translation of the Saint’s relics: on Sunday 15 February we celebrate the discovery of Saint Anthony’s Incorrupt Tongue which took place 760 years ago

27 January – Holocaust Memorial Day

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