EASTER

The Week of Weeks:

Seven weeks of seven days adds up to forty-nine  days and then on the 50th day there is the feast of Pentecost. This is how Easter is celebrated, not as a single day, but rather  as  a  season  that  only  begins  today. Why? Because the redemption that has been won for us by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is news that deserves to be  repeated, further contemplated, more deeply believed each time we celebrate it.

Ironically, we as Catholics tend to be better at observing the forty days of Lent with prayer  and  sacrifice  than  we  are  celebrating the fifty days of Easter.

Would we consider making the effort to come to daily Mass for the season of Easter as we regularly do for the season of Lent? In the least, we must consciously keep the character  of  Easter  throughout  the  Fifty Days  –  lighting the Easter Candle each time we gather for the liturgy, and enthusiastically singing the joyful alleluias  and hymns  that  hail  wonder  of  the  resurrection of Christ!

Happy Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord and happy season of Easter!

Fr. Healey