Introduction To The Season Of Easter

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

The season of Easter is the season of celebration. Christ is risen! Death is conquered! Let all the people worship the Lord! The solemn preparation of Lent and somber meditation of Holy Week gives way to victorious festivity during the fifty days of Easter. It is important to see the fifty days of Easter as a season, anchored by Easter Sunday on one end and Pentecost on the other. Neither would be complete without the other. The church's worship centers on the paschal mystery of Christ's...

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