Easter’s resurrection celebrations are a crescendo to our journey through the Lenten season of fasting, prayer, and generosity. Rather than viewing Easter as a holy day ending the Lenten season, it is actually the beginning of a whole new season. Another chapter of hope and possibilities literally rise after facing Good Friday’s horror of the cross. Easter is a season that lasts seven weeks, or forty days, ending on Pentecost Sunday, June 8th, of this year.