Ash Wednesday 2025 Australia Calendar. Ash wednesday in 2025 is on wednesday, march 5 (first wednesday of march). Also known as day of ashes, catholics and christians celebrate this day by focusing on prayer and penance.

The time has now come in the church year for the solemn observance of the great central act of history, the redemption of the human race by our. Ash wednesday is observed 46 days before easter sunday, and it signals the beginning of the forty days of lent period.