Editing Ash Wednesday (section)

===Date of Ash Wednesday===
Ash Wednesday is always 46 days before Easter. Easter is determined as the Sunday following the first full moon that happens on or after the March equinox (which is always 21 March).<ref>{{cite news |last=LaBianca |first=Juliuana |url=https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/easter-ideas/a31345625/when-is-lent/ |title=When Is Lent in 2021? Everything You Need to Know About When the Season Starts and Ends |work=[[Good Housekeeping]] |date=16 February 2021 |accessdate=19 February 2021 }}</ref>

Lent is 40 days long, not including Sundays. According to the calendar, that means the season is 46 days long overall. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on [[Holy Saturday]] (in the  [[Moravian Church]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Moravian Passion Week |url=https://www.newhopemoravian.org/holy-days.html |publisher=New Hope Moravian Church |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=English |quote=Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with the conclusion of the Great Sabbath (Holy Saturday –  Easter Eve) – forty days on the church calendar, excluding Sundays. |archive-date=12 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512140401/https://newhopemoravian.org/holy-days.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Lutheran World Federation|Lutheran Church]],<ref name="Northwestern Publishing House">{{cite book|title=The Northwestern Lutheran, Volumes 60–61|year=1973|publisher=Northwestern Publishing House|page=66}}</ref> [[Anglican Communion|Anglican Church]],<ref name="Kitch 130">{{cite book|last=Kitch|first=Anne E.|title=The Anglican Family Prayer Book|year=2003|publisher=Church Publishing, Inc.|page=130}}</ref> [[World Methodist Council|Methodist Church]],<ref name="Langford 96">{{cite book|last=Langford|first=Andy|title=Blueprints for worship: a user's guide for United Methodist congregations|url=https://archive.org/details/blueprintsforwor0000lang|url-access=registration|year=1993|publisher=Abingdon Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/blueprintsforwor0000lang/page/96 96]|isbn=9780687033126}}</ref> [[Reformed Church]]es {[[Continental Reformed]], [[Presbyterian]] and [[Congregationalist]]},<ref>{{cite web |title=The Meaning of Lent |url=https://covenantchicago.org/lent/ |publisher=Covenant Presbyterian Church of Chicago |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=English}}</ref> [[Western-Rite Orthodox Churches|Western Rite Orthodox Church]],<ref name="Fenton2014">{{cite web|last=Fenton|first=John|title=The Holy Season of Lent in the Western Tradition|url=http://www.antiochian.org/node/25432|publisher=Western Rite of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America|access-date=3 March 2014}}</ref> and [[United Protestant Church]]es<ref>{{cite web |title=First Sunday in Lent |url=https://united-church.ca/worship-liturgical-season/first-sunday-lent |publisher=[[United Church of Canada]] |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=English |date=21 February 2021}}</ref>) or at the start of the [[Easter Triduum]] on the evening of [[Maundy Thursday|Holy Thursday]] in the [[Catholic Church]] (though the Lenten fasting discipline ends on the evening of Holy Saturday, as with the Lutheran Churches).<ref name="EWTN">{{cite web|last=Akin|first=James|title=All About Lent|url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/LENT.HTM|publisher=EWTN|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204060545/https://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/LENT.HTM|archive-date=4 February 2018|access-date=3 March 2014|quote=Lent is the forty day period before Easter, excluding Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday). [This traditional enumeration does not precisely coincide with the calendar according to the liturgical reform. To give special prominence to the Sacred Triduum (Mass of the Lord's Supper, Good Friday, Easter Vigil) the current calendar counts Lent as only from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, up to the Mass of the Lord's Supper. Even so, Lenten practices are properly maintained up to the Easter Vigil, excluding Sundays, as before.]}}</ref>