2014 Ash Wednesday Catholics

For Christians Roman Catholics, Ash Wednesday is the first and most important day of Lent.

It is a day of fasting and abstinence great sadness that Christians repent for all the sins they have committed over the year, and used to symbolically put ashes on the head , thus the name associated with Ash Wednesday . It is the day that begins the most important and the longest post of the year , the Easter Lent .