Ash Wednesday
Feb 14
Lent Begins - Day of Fasting and Abstinence
Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent symbolic of the forty days Our Lord fasted in the desert. Occurring forty six days before Easter, it is consequently movable-as early as February 4 and as late as March 10.
On Ash Wednesday Catholics proclaim their Faith in the public square as they go about marked with a black cross.