April

🌸 APRIL 2026

A Month of Rising, Renewal, and Resurrection

April arrives lush and blooming, inviting us to step back onto the trail and out onto the open road. Spring awakens the desire to move — to explore, to reconnect, to breathe deeper. Yet the blessings of mobility come with mixed realities: beautiful vistas and interconnected communities often sit beside pollution, congestion, and noise. April invites us to travel lightly, walk reverently, and let our journeys become prayer.

✝️ Overview of April

Our Lenten pilgrimage reaches its summit in the first days of April. We follow Christ through the solemn mysteries of Holy Week, stand at the foot of the Cross on Good Friday, and behold the radiant dawn of Easter on April 5, 2026.

If we have prayed, fasted, and sacrificed well, we now reap the fruits of a Lent spent in earnest. The remainder of April becomes a long exhale of joy — the Easter Octave, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the first full month of Resurrection light. Even nature joins the celebration as buds and blooms break open across the land.

Throughout the month, our cry continues:
“Christ is risen — Christ is truly risen.”

Divine Mercy Sunday on April 12, 2026 offers a baptismal reset — a chance to begin again with a heart washed clean. Easter is the feast of feasts, the day that anchors all time, the promise that every sorrow will one day be transfigured.

🌱 A Time of New Life

April holds the most solemn and sublime events of human history: the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ — the Paschal Mystery. The Via Crucis leads to the empty tomb; the Lamb who was slain becomes our Light, our High Priest, our Victory.

Mary, the sorrowful Mother of Good Friday, becomes the jubilant Mother of the Regina Caeli.
We, the members of Christ’s Mystical Body, rejoice in the mystery by which we were redeemed.

April is also:

Autism Awareness Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Garden Month
Month of the Military Child

🥾 The April 5×5 Resurrection Framework

April is the natural home of the 5×5 system — Body, Mind, Heart, Spirit, Mission — all rising together in the light of Easter.

Holy Week through the 5×5 Lens

Palm Sunday (Apr 5) — Orientation
Holy Thursday (Apr 2) — Offering
Good Friday (Apr 3) — Descent
Holy Saturday (Apr 4) — Waiting
Easter Sunday (Apr 5) — Rising

The Easter Octave (Apr 5–12)

Eight days of embodied resurrection:
Peace • Joy • Courage • Clarity • Mercy • Gratitude • Renewal • Mission

Divine Mercy Sunday (Apr 12)

Your annual “reset day” — a baptismal renewal, a mercy‑soaked commissioning, a hike of rebirth.

🗺️ APRIL 2026 TRAVEL CALENDAR

(All links are official sources)

🏌️ The Masters Tournament — April 9–12

Augusta, GA
masters.com

🏰 Scarborough Renaissance Festival — April 4–May 25

Waxahachie, TX
srfestival.com

🎶 Coachella — April 10–12 & 17–19

Indio, CA
coachella.com

🏃 Boston Marathon — April 20

Patriots’ Day tradition
baa.org

🟧 King’s Day — April 27

Amsterdam, Netherlands
iamsterdam.com

🎷 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — April 23–May 3

New Orleans, LA
nojazzfest.com

✝️ ICEMAN’S APRIL 2026 CALENDAR

(Liturgical dates corrected)

Mar 26

Begin Novena to the Holy Face for First Friday

Apr 1

Wednesday of Holy Week

Apr 2

Holy Thursday

Apr 3

Good Friday

Apr 4

Holy Saturday / Easter Vigil

Apr 5

Easter Sunday
Begin Easter Octave

Apr 6–11

Easter Monday through Saturday — Octave continues

Apr 12

Divine Mercy Sunday
Passover begins at sundown
Full Pink Moon

Apr 23

Feast of St. George

Apr 25

Feast of St. Mark
(Las Vegas noted)

Apr 27

King’s Day (Netherlands)

🌕 Astronomical Notes

Full Pink Moon — April 12, 2026
Aligned with the opening of Passover.

🌄 Closing Reflection

April is the month where the land, the liturgy, and the soul all rise together.
Every trail becomes a catechism.
Every sunrise becomes a promise.
Every step becomes a prayer of resurrection.