Easter

The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost are celebrated in joyful exultation as one feast day, or better, as one "great Sunday" (Athanasius, Epist. fest.). These above all others are the days for the signing of the Alleluia (General Norms, 22). The days of the Easter octave form the "early hours" of this "great Sunday," with accounts of the Lord who rose early in the morning, and the early preaching of the disciples who were witnesses to his resurrection.