Quotes About Ash Wednesday

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

The folks who invented Lent—no, it wasn't Jesus's idea—decided that just like Christ's time in the desert, it should last forty days. Actually, from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday it's forty-six days, so it looks like the first thing someone ever gave up for Lent was math.

Shrovetide.

The night of his birth marked the passage from Shrove Tuesday to Ash Wednesday and Boltzmann used to say that his birth date explained why his temper could suddenly change from great happiness to deep depression.