The season of Easter is the period of fifty days begins at sunset on Easter Vigil and ends on Pentecost Sunday, the day we celebrate the day Christians remember the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the earliest believers in Jesus. and the birth of the Church.
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. ~ Acts 2:1-4
The solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated 40 days after the Easter Sunday ( the Resurrection of the Lord). The next nine days from the Ascension of the Lord are days of preparation known 9 day novena to the Holy Spirit for the gifts of the Holy Spirit the Paraclete.
