What is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lent season, and is 6.5 weeks before Easter Sunday. According to Catholic tradition, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and prayer.

When is Lent 2025? This year, Lent begins on Wednesday, March 5 and ends on Thursday, April 17. It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the religious period of fasting and repentance for Christians.

The beloved sports journalist has lent her support to the Lower East Side Girls Club and is helping out teachers next.

Fasting and Abstinence during Lent Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary.

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One of my most respected spiritual mentors once recounted to me her first experience of choosing not to “do” Lent – she was a student, away from home and the strongly enforced parental ...