Solemnity
Ash Wednesday
- Feast day
- March 01
Life
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day season of fasting, prayer, and penance in preparation for Easter. The faithful receive ashes on their foreheads as a sign of repentance and of human mortality, a practice rooted in ancient biblical expressions of sorrow for sin. In the Roman Catholic Church it is a day of fasting and abstinence from meat.
The saint of the day, every day
Bosko shows you the saint the Church honors today, every day — their story, today's feast, and where they fall in your tradition's liturgical calendar, so a feast that matters to you never quietly slips past.