Wednesday, February 18 to Saturday, April 4, 2026
Lent is a 40-day period starting on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday, excluding Sundays. We follow the biblical accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry, including temptations and struggles with powers and principalities both earthly and spiritual. It is a time for personal attentiveness to spiritual formation and growth in disciplined ways, as preparation for the great celebrations of Easter.
Observances throughout Lent
Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays, Holy Days and Lenten Ember Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).
- Feb. 18: Ash Wednesday (BAS, BCP)
- Feb. 22: First Sunday in Lent (BAS, BCP); Freedom Sunday
- Feb. 23: Polycarp (BAS)
- Feb. 24: Philip Lindel Tsen and/or Paul Shinji Sasaki (BAS); St. Matthias the Apostle (BCP)
- Feb. 25: Lenten Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
- Feb. 26: Florence Li Tim-Oi (BAS)
- Feb 27: George Herbert (BAS); Lenten Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
- Feb. 28: Lenten Ember Day (BAS, BCP)
Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).
- Mar. 1: Second Sunday in Lent (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 2: Chad (BAS)
- Mar. 3: John and Charles Wesley (BAS)
- Mar. 6: World Day of Prayer
- Mar 7: Perpetua and Companions (BAS)
- Mar. 8: Third Sunday in Lent (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 9: Gregory of Nyssa (BAS)
- Mar. 10: Robert Machray (BAS)
- Mar. 15: Fourth Sunday in Lent (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 17: Patrick (BAS)
- Mar. 18: Cyril of Jerusalem (BAS)
- Mar. 19: St. Joseph of Nazareth (BAS)
- Mar. 20: Cuthbert (BAS)
- Mar. 21: Thomas Cranmer (BAS)
- Mar. 22: Fifth Sunday in Lent (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 23: Gregory the Illuminator (BAS)
- Mar. 25: The Annunciation of the Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 27: Charles Henry Brant (BAS)
- Mar. 29: The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 30: Monday in Holy Week (BAS, BCP)
- Mar. 31: Tuesday in Holy Week (BAS, BCP)
Includes liturgical dates from the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and Sundays and Holy Days from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), as well as select secular and ecumenical observances (in italics).