Ash Wednesday 2025 Dates Uk Calendar. With effect from the first sunday of advent in 2017, two. 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.
Ash wednesday is observed 46 days before easter sunday, and it signals the beginning of the forty days of lent period. 2025, 2026 and 2027 catholic holidays in the united kingdom: