The year Christ died.
Ash Wednesday is the day that kicks off the start of Lent.
You can start eating again as soon as Ash Wednesday is over, midnight.
Wednesday February 6th (Ash Wednesday)
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is actually a Christian commemoration which occurs every year, 40 days before Easter.However, if the question refers to the disastrous Ash Wednesday bushfires which occurred in Victoria and South Australia, ironically beginning on the real Ash Wednesday, this happened on 16 February 1983.
From burnt palms from last year's Palm Sunday.
This year it starts on March 9 at midnight of the previous night)
It is Ash Wednesday.
Wednesday in 2012. February 22. This year it is on Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday.
Lent starts every year on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday. While Lent is a 40-day period of fasting and prayer, there are 46 days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (inclusive).
Ash Wednesday 2025 will be on Wednesday, March 5.