On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

The image of a “veil” suggests the ordinary human condition in which temporal life feels separated from the eternal. By saying that on Easter Day this veil “thins to gossamer,” Horton evokes Easter as a moment of heightened spiritual permeability: the resurrection is not only a historical claim but an experiential invitation to sense eternity pressing close to time. “Gossamer” implies something almost weightless and translucent—still present, but no longer opaque—so the day becomes a liturgical threshold where grief, mortality, and finitude are momentarily reframed by hope. The line captures Easter’s function in Christian imagination as a yearly re-opening of the horizon of immortality.