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Ash
Wednesday
marks the beginning of the
penitential season
Lent, which is calculated in the Christian liturgical cycle to start
40 days before the great feast of Easter
Sundays are not counted among the 40 days. In the year 325 A.D., the Council of Nicea established the date of Easter as the Sunday following the first full moon after the venral equinox. Since Easter will be celebrated April 8 this year, Ash Wednesday is consequently set for February 22.
"It was said that the world turned upside down on this day, and inferiors were openly allowed to mock their superiors, albeit masked, in rituals of subversion," writes Ken Abala in Food and Faith in Christian Culture. "Thus there were mock weddings, mock trials, and the lowest person might be crowned king for the day. Rather than pose a threat to the structure of society, it has been suggested that this one day of ritual subversion actually strengthened the social order as a sort of safety valve - allowing people to blow off steam and then return to their stations the rest of the year."
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