When Does Lent End 2025. This is maundy thursday, the day before good friday and the beginning of the easter triduum. Lent 2025 starts on wednesday, march 5 and ends on thursday, april 17, a christian period lasting 40 days representing the 40 days jesus fasted in the wilderness starting on ash wednesday and ending with evening mass on holy thursday.

In 2025, ash wednesday is on march 5. Lent begins on wednesday, march 5, 2025 (ash wednesday) and ends at sundown on thursday, april 17 (holy thursday).