Ash Wednesday 2025 Date. Lent is the time before easter when catholics prepare to commemorate jesus’s resurrection through prayer, penance, and fasting. Ash wednesday 2025 is on wednesday, march 5, 2025 (in 58 days).

Ash wednesday is celebrated on wednesday seven weeks before easter and the day after mardi gras also referred to as fat tuesday. Each year, ash wednesday marks the beginning of lent and is always 46 days before easter sunday.