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.

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

Historically, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Father Narikulam said. "It is in fact the 40-day period before Easter, excluding Sundays, to denote Christ´s withdrawal into the wilderness for 40 days," he ...

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James Carter Cathcart, the celebrated voice actor behind numerous characters in the English-language Pokémon anime, has died on July 8 at the age of 71. Cathcart, also known as Jimmy Zoppi, was best ...

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