The CHRIST Program defines the Easter Season as the period beginning on Ash Wednesday and running through Ascension Sunday. For more information click here. Jesus Christ gave us the greatest of all gifts, salvation from our sins, through his death and resurrection.  As Christians, we respond by celebrating during the Easter Season.  For more information, click here. Although Easter's message of salvation has tremendous importance to Christianity, the Easter Season has been subjected to intrusive commercialization.  Christians need to begin evaluating the non-Christian impact that this intrusion has on our Easter Season, and consider how we might begin adjusting that impact to keep the focus at Easter on Christ.  For more information, click here. When you see that God's Easter message of salvation is being obscured, it is important to speak up and let other people know.  For suggestions on how and when to speak up and what to say, click here. People with specific vocations have extra influence over how Easter is celebrated. For encouragements for those groups, click here.