Some may find it surprising that while Jesus’ day of resurrection — known as Easter — is a high point of the church calendar year, Easter is actually meant to be lived out and celebrated as an entire ...

“Eastertide,” as it was once commonly referred to, lasts 50 days, making it the longest season on the Church’s liturgical calendar. Get acquainted with some time-honored Easter traditions: Feast.

Easter Sunday begins the Easter season. The 50-day Eastertide, running to Pentecost, is the longest season on the Church calendar. Everything starts with the joyous celebrations of Easter Sunday and ...

Every year, if I listen well with both my ears and my heart, a theme stands out for the Easter service that I plan for my congregation. Something in the gospel lesson or in the news or in the lives ...

From April 30 (Second Sunday of Easter)to, but excluding Pentecost Sunday, the Gospel readings of the Eucharist this year are all, but one (Luke c. 24), taken from John’s Gospel. Given this attention ...

PW's contributing religion editor Phyllis Tickle adapts her bestselling series The Divine Hours for the spring liturgical calendar with Eastertide: Prayers for Lent Through Easter from The Divine ...

We all had a long drive to get there. Out to the dusty plains of southwest Oklahoma, just north of the Red River, where my sister and I grew up. It is still the Old West out there, blown over by the ...

Easter, the celebration of the risen Christ, has come and gone for 2022. As I write, I still have candy in my Easter basket. By the time you read this, all the candy will be gone, unlike Jesus. Jesus ...