Beginning on Easter Eve we enter into the fifty day observance of the resurrection of Jesus known as Eastertide. Officially, this season ends with Pentecost when we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. In Christian reality Easter never ends. We reaffirm it every Sunday during the year. It is part of the Christian memorial celebration at the death of one of the saints. It is a theme every time we share the Bread and the Cup. It is Easter again whenever we are aware of the resurrected living Lord, present with whenever two or three are gathered in His name. Easter never ends because Jesus is alive and with us. Through the Holy Spirit the Living Lord invades all our lives. It is good to have those special moments like Easter Sunday to remind us of the glory of the resurrection, but when the stone was rolled away from the tomb, a doorway was opened in heaven which can never be closed. The path is clear past sin and death. Now even the darkness is alight with the unquenchable glory of God. The special day of observance is past, but the glory is present even in every ordinary day. Easter never ends. It is always with us from that first resurrection morning all the way out into the boundlessness of eternity. Easter never ends.