The timing of Lent varies from year to year and is tied to the spring equinox. Here are 2025's key dates, including Easter.

As the Mardi Gras celebration ends, so begins the solemn period of Lent observed in many Christian circles and denominations.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer and fasting leading up to Jesus ...

A cluster of new and forthcoming titles, including devotionals and other works by popular Christian pastors, theologians, and ...

The 40-day period of Lent starts with Ash Wednesday. See the 2025 dates, and why and how Christians observe the religious ...

Noticing people with smudges on their foreheads today? It is Ash Wednesday, kicking off the 40-day Lenten season of prayer, ...

Why is Easter 2025 so late this year? When is Easter Sunday date? What day does Lent start? What we know on Holy Week, Ash ...

I have walked through the Lenten season in a very traditional way. On Ash Wednesday we acknowledge our humanity and our sinful ways. Some do this by having ashes placed upon their foreheads as a ...

Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and fasting in Christian traditions, begins on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and ends on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

It’s also a day to reflect on your life and take part in the practice of "shriving," which means purifying oneself through ...

According to Christian teachings, Jesus was crucified, died and was buried, and on the third day — Easter Sunday — he rose ...