Lent 2025 Begins On Ash Wednesday. In 2025, like in every year, ash wednesday is the first day of the liturgical season of lent. Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on ash wednesday and ends at sundown on holy thursday.

Year c began on the 1st sunday of advent in 2024 and now continues in 2025. We skip sundays when we count the forty days, because sundays commemorate the resurrection.