Celebrating the start of Lent with Ash Wednesday memes. The Mardi Gras season ends with Fat Tuesday following the start to the holy Lenten season with Ash Wednesday. It’s a week of celebrations and faith, but we are adding in the funny.
Ash Wednesday Memes
In years past, we have shared our Lent Memes. This year, we are adding to the party with a collection of funny Ash Wednesday memes.
Memes About Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, which is the 40-day period of fasting and reflection leading up to Easter Sunday.
Wait so does the fasting and giving up the bad stuff begin on the morning of the first day of Lent or after you have been ashed? Asking for a friend.
The date of Ash Wednesday varies from year to year, but it always falls 46 days before Easter Sunday. It can occur as early as February 4th or as late as March 10th. This year, Ash Wednesday lands on February 14, 2024 – that’s right, Valentine’s day!
Dust Meme
You know in the Ash Wednesday service when the minister reads from Job 42:6. Therefore, I reject my words and am sorry for them; I am dust and ashes. You come from dust, you will return to dust sooo…
Fasting Meme
Woohoo, let the fasting and whatever else you are abstaining from for the next 40 days until Easter. Technically there is more, but Lent fasting ends on the last Thursday in Holy week before Good Friday.
Happy Ash Wednesday Meme
Random fact: did you know that the ashes used on foreheads for the Ash Wednesday church service are typically made from the burning of palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday.
The ashes are a symbol of penance and are to remind us of our own morality and the need to repent from sin.
The color purple is often associated with Ash Wednesday because purple symbolizes penance and mourning.
Soem churches hold a special service called “Day of Ashes.”
Guide to Ashes
In some cultures, wearing the ashes on your forehead all day are a public symbol of faith and commitment to repentance.
The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are meant to be considered sacramental not a sacrament. The intention to to help us draw closer to God.
More Memes About Ash Wednesday
While Ash Wednesday is primarily observed by Catholics and other Christians, it is becoming more widely recognized as a day of reflection and repentance by people of all faiths and backgrounds.
Why is it that sometimes the ashes look like a cross and then other times you think that maybe someone took a few too many sips of communion.
Yes, even explaining why ashes are placed on the forehead. Tell me you aren’t reading this in Sean Connery’s voice.
Don’t miss our hump day memes.
Whether you ashed, don’t participate or completely missed the church service (been there done that) – here is hoping that your first day of Lent was a success.
Share the funny Ash Wednesday memes and tag us on social with a link back so more people can enjoy the funny start to our 40 day journey of Lent.
Ash Wednesday Memes 2024 are part of the Digital Mom Blog series of Memes