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Ash Wednesday
Date: 26th February 2020
Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent, which ends at sundown on Holy Saturday, and is a period of 40 days of fasting, prayer, penance and almsgiving. Easter Sunday is 46 days after Ash Wednesday, because Sundays, when Catholics celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, are not included in calculating the period of penance and fasting.