We are Easter people, and alleluia is our song!

Augustine

We continue this week our journeys through the Easter season. Yes, we celebrate Easter on Resurrection Sunday, and Easter’s alleluias ring out across seven weeks of the liturgical year. Sometimes called Eastertide, or the Great Fifty Days, the season began at sundown the evening before Easter Sunday and continues until Pentecost Sunday on May 23, 2021.

What this means is that Commencement 2021 will occur in the midst of Eastertide, on the Monday between Ascension Day and Pentecost Sunday. Between now and then, students and faculty will write many more words and create and grade a number of final projects. The Great Fifty Days will be, for the School of Divinity, a time for ending another academic year. It will also be a time for us to reflect on what we have learned across the pandemic weeks and months. How have we been changed? What has been resurrected in us? In our communities? What radical alleluias do we yearn to lift up as we consider the aching wounds and needs in our world? What joyful alleluias bring sweet relief to our pandemic-parched lips?

I wish you blessed journeys, Wake Div, as we move through the Great Fifty Days. Perhaps Eastertide’s “alleluia” song can infuse the last days of this semester with new energy and a renewed sense of vocational purpose.

Happy Easter!

Alleluia!