In the church calendar Easter is more than a single-day event. Easter is a whole season of 50 days leading up to Pentecost. These 50 days are known as the "Eastertide".
The word "tide" is a fitting description. When Jesus is raised from the dead all of the disciples at first doubt the news. When they hear rumors of a resurrection they think it's "an idle tale". Later, seeing Jesus in flesh and blood they still doubt. They literally cannot believe their own eyes. But the Resurrection waves keep coming in, and the tide of belief rises and swallows all unbelief.
The Eastertide keeps rising. Wave by wave, it keeps washing ashore, deeper and deeper onto dry land until all the earth is bathed in Resurrection, until the whole world is baptized in the sea of hope and new creation.
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