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.

Crosses marked with ash adorn the foreheads of many during an Ash Wednesday Mass at the St. Anthony of Padua-St. Victor Catholic Church in Tamuning on March 6, 2019. PDN file photo ...

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Forty days before Easter, Catholics and some other Christians abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays to observe Lent, a time of penitence, reflection and simplifying life in ...

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Fasting Fasting is the act of doing with less. In the Catholic Church, those ages 18 - 59 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (Canon 97).