Easter Season 2026

The Season of Easter is the Church’s great fifty-day feast of resurrection, where alleluias return and the life of the baptized is renewed in the light of Christ’s victory. What began at the empty tomb unfolds into a season not of a single day’s joy, but of sustained, unfolding wonder. Christ is risen, and now the Church learns what that means.

In Year A of the Revised Common Lectionary, we hear again the stories of the risen Jesus appearing to his disciples: in locked rooms and on ordinary roads, at the seashore and around the table. Fear gives way to peace, doubt to confession, and scattered followers are gathered into a new community shaped by forgiveness and sent in mission. Alongside these Gospel readings, the Acts of the Apostles opens before us as the Spirit empowers the Church to proclaim, to heal, to share, and to suffer for the sake of the risen Lord.

Easter is not simply the celebration of life after death, but the revelation of a new creation breaking into the present. In Word and Sacrament, in baptismal waters and eucharistic feast, we are drawn into Christ’s risen life even anew. This season calls us to live as resurrection people—marked by hope, practicing forgiveness, bearing witness, and trusting that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in us and in the world.