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The great fifty days

He is risen. Death has lost its hold.

The stone is rolled away, the linen folded, the Lord is not here. Easter is not a single Sunday but fifty days of Alleluia — the longest feast of the Church year, when sorrow turns to wonder and prayer becomes pure thanksgiving. Solua keeps the whole season of joy with you, morning by morning.

Easter begins at the Vigil, the night of April 4 — and runs fifty days, all the way to Pentecost.

A hand lifting a rosary into warm morning light

Regina Caeli, laetare, alleluia — Queen of Heaven, rejoice.

Light · water · song

Three signs of the Risen Lord.

At the Easter Vigil the Church gathers in the dark and waits — then everything she had set aside in Lent returns at once: new fire, blessed water, and the word she could not say for forty days.

First sign

The Paschal candle

“I am the light of the world.” — John 8

Lit from new fire in the dark of the Vigil, the great candle burns through all fifty days — Christ, the light no tomb could hold.

Christ our light

Second sign

The living water

“Let the one who thirsts come.” — Revelation 22

The font is blessed and the newly baptized rise up white-robed — and the whole Church renews the promises made at her own baptism.

Renewed in baptism

Third sign

The Alleluia

“This is the day the Lord has made.” — Psalm 118

Buried in silence all through Lent, the word comes back — Alleluia — and the Church will not stop singing it for fifty days.

The song restored

Prayed through Eastertide

The five Glorious Mysteries.

When the Church rises from Lent, the Rosary rises with her. Through the fifty days we pray the Glorious Mysteries — the joy on the far side of the Cross, from the empty tomb to the crowning of the Mother of God.

  • I

    The Resurrection

    “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” — Christ rises, and death itself is undone.

  • II

    The Ascension

    He is lifted up and a cloud takes Him — and our own nature is carried home to the Father.

  • III

    The Descent of the Holy Spirit

    Tongues as of fire rest on the Church, and the frightened few are sent to the ends of the earth.

  • IV

    The Assumption

    The Mother is taken up, body and soul, into glory — the first to follow her risen Son.

  • V

    The Coronation

    She is crowned Queen of Heaven and earth — and our hope of all that grace intends for us.

Easter, day by day

How Solua keeps the
fifty days with you.

Not a single Sunday that fades by Monday — a companion that carries the Alleluia all the way to Pentecost.

  • The day's readings & a reflection

    Each morning, the Easter Mass readings and a short reflection — the Church's fifty-day proclamation that Christ is truly risen.

  • The Regina Caeli, in place of the Angelus

    Through Eastertide the Church trades the Angelus for the Regina Caeli. Solua brings it to you at morning, noon, and evening.

  • The Glorious Mysteries, daily

    From the empty tomb to the crown of the Mother of God — the Rosary's Glorious Mysteries keep your prayer in the joy of the Resurrection.

  • Divine Mercy & the great feasts

    Divine Mercy Sunday, the Ascension, Pentecost — the high points of the season arrive gently, so no feast slips past unnoticed.

Keep a glad Easter.

Fifty days of Alleluia, from the empty tomb to the fire of Pentecost.

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For years Easter was over by lunchtime. Now the Alleluia stays — the kids are still saying it in May — and the whole season finally feels like fifty days of joy.
Clare M.

Mother of four · Texas

Keep the fifty days
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