This site is firmly committed to the Easter Season being 50 days.
Hence I invite you to the annual facebook “event” Easter is 50 days. Please “attend” and invite others.
I created the chart, above, to illustrate how the seasons of Lent and Easter fit together.
This period forms a quarter of the year. The forty days of Lent is an approximate tenth or tithe of the year. The fifty days of the Easter Season is approximately a seventh of the year – it forms the great Sunday of the year. It is concluded by the Day of Pentecost – from the Greek word for fifty. Also called Whitsunday – possibly from the French word for eighth Sunday (Whitsunday is the eighth Sunday of the great Season of Easter).
All days in my table are inclusive.
This period effectively of 96 days moves around a certain section of our calendar year by year.
The three days (inclusive) here refers to the “three days” Christ is in the tomb. The Triduum celebration is now more generally a reference to the Maundy Thursday until the Easter Vigil celebration.
The 40 days fast is preparing for the 50 days feast.
