The Easter Season in The Christian Community
Cynthia Hindes
In The Christian Community there are nine festival seasons. Just as the earth dresses herself differently in the natural cycle of the year, so does the soul clothe herself differently in the moods of the cycle of the festivals of the year. In each festival season, there are different prayers, readings and colors. The prayers and the colors help tune our souls to harmonize with the time of the year and with God and his angels.
The Easter festival season lasts forty days, nearly seven weeks. Its beginning is movable and cosmically oriented, starting on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the March equinox. The season celebrates Christ’s resurrection, both then and now. For during this season, Christ enters the earth and our bodies and raises them again. The prayers speak of healing and jubilation, felt in breath, blood and air. They affirm that Christ’s rising gives earth existence its meaning. The saturated red of love and courage, and the living green of the Easter vestments move us toward joy, strength and victory over weakness and death.