Ash Wednesday
Feast · fast
- Pascha − 46 (Roman Catholic Church)
Lent begins in the West forty-six days before Pascha, and is called forty because the six Sundays are not counted in the fast.
After Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar.
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
Glosses
- Three ways to count forty days Lent is forty days in every tradition and the same length in none of them. Rome runs Ash Wednesday to the evening of Holy Thursday — forty-four calendar days — and reaches forty by not counting the six Sundays, which…