You know what I like best about the week after Easter?

Everybody goes back to work, all the pastel eggs and fluffy chicks and talking, egg-laying bunnies get marked down and sold off, and the secular world stops talking about its spring fertility holiday.

And the Church still has forty-nine more days to celebrate the resurrection.

Partake, all, of the banquet of faith.
Enjoy the bounty of the Lord’s goodness!
Let no one grieve being poor,
for the universal reign has been revealed.
Let no one lament persistent failings,
for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Let no one fear death,
for the death of our Saviour has set us free.
The Lord has destroyed death by enduring it.
The Lord vanquished hell when he descended into it.
The Lord put hell in turmoil even as it tasted of his flesh.
- John Chrysostom, Easter sermon