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The Octave of Easter is celebrated with daily Mass. The Lutheran Missal states: [3] The Octave of Easter forms a cohesive thematic unit with the two following weeks. The Gospel for Quasimodogeniti, the First Sunday after Easter, recounts the appearance of Our Lord to the apostles in the locked upper room, together with Thomas’ confession. [3]
The Second Sunday of Easter, which ends the Easter Octave, has also been called “White Sunday” (Dominica in albis), among other traditional names. The Christmas Octave is presently arranged as follows: Sunday within the octave: Feast of the Holy Family; celebrated on Friday, December 30 when Christmas falls on a Sunday
The first eight days constitute the Octave of Easter and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord. [18] Since 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter is also called Divine Mercy Sunday. The name "Low Sunday" for this Sunday, once common in English, is now used mainly in the Church of England.
The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. [1] It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, [2] [3] the Octave Day of Easter, White Sunday [a] (Latin: Dominica in albis), Quasimodo Sunday, Bright Sunday and Low Sunday.
The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with "Easter", e.g. Easter Monday (a public holiday in many countries), Easter Tuesday (a much less widespread public holiday), etc. Easter Saturday is therefore the Saturday after Easter Sunday. The day before Easter is properly called ...
Easter Monday is the second day of Eastertide and a public holiday in some countries. In Western Christianity it marks the second day of the Octave of Easter ...
There’s a deeper meaning behind the Easter celebration’s colorful picks. Learn the stories behind the hues, and how to work them into your Easter decor.
Unlike feast days of the rank of feast (other than feasts of the Lord) or those of the rank of memorial, solemnities replace the celebration of Sundays outside Advent, Lent, and Easter (those in Ordinary Time). [1] The word comes from postclassical Latin sollemnitas, meaning a solemnity, festival, celebration of a day. [2]