Ash Wednesday 2025 Dates Usa. Celebration\ observance ash wednesday represents the first day of lent in which practicing christians do approximately 6 weeks of fasting prior to easter. Lent 2025 starts on wednesday, march 5 and ends on thursday, april 17, a christian period lasting 40 days representing the 40 days jesus fasted in the wilderness starting on ash wednesday and ending with evening mass on holy thursday.
On ash wednesday, we hear resounding hymns from the book of genesis: The first sunday of advent 2025 begins year a.