[Salvation]

Celebrate the next eight days (Octave of Easter) as though it were Easter -- all the candles lit, including the Pascal Candle -- and then continue throughout the 50 days.

[Salvation]

During these fifty days we are also putting in a prayer card for priests — shorter version that the one by St. John Vianney — to pray for priests during these 50 days.

The Year of the Priest will come to and end on June 19th. So you might consider doing something special for priests from now through the end of the special year.

Heaven knows, they all need our prayers!

[lightman]

The Great Fifty Days have been termed a “Week of weeks”; with this first week (”Bright Week”) corresponding to Sunday.

So we are quite literally within a “week of Sundays”.

Interestingly, the Sixth Week of Eastertide (Rogate) corresponds to Friday in the Week of weeks. Every Friday is a commemoration of the departure of Our Lord to the dead; and so it is that during this great Friday week we celebrate His final bodily departure through the Feast of the Ascension.