Easter lasts fifty days

Lent lasts forty days and almost everyone knows what to do in it: some sacrifice, more prayer, a resolution. But Easter goes on for fifty days, until Pentecost, and it often slips by without our noticing. The following Monday we go back to the usual. The Church extends it precisely because the resurrection is too great for a single Sunday. It's a time of celebration, not of going back to routine as if nothing had happened. Joy is also looked after with small things: a special meal, giving thanks more often, singing the alleluia with gusto, treating others with more good humor. If Lent prepared you, Easter is for enjoying what God has done.