Octave of Easter

The Octave of Easter is the eight-day period, or octave, that begins on Easter Sunday and ends with the following Sunday.[1] In Christian churches that celebrate it, it marks the beginning of Eastertide. The first seven of these eight days are also collectively known as Easter Week.

This article is about the eight-day celebration in Western Christianity. For the octave day (the last of the eight days), see Second Sunday of Easter. For the similar period in Eastern Christianity, see Bright Week.
"Easter Week" redirects here. For the week before Easter, see Holy Week.

Days in the octave
  1. Easter Sunday
  2. Easter Monday
  3. Easter Tuesday
  4. Easter Wednesday
  5. Easter Thursday
  6. Easter Friday
  7. Easter Saturday
  8. Second Sunday of Easter (also known as the Octave Day of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, White Sunday (Latin: Dominica in albis), Quasimodo Sunday and Low Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church)

Liturgical celebration

Roman Rite Catholicism

In the Ordinariate Form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, Easter is one of three Solemnities with Octaves, the other two being Christmas and Whitsun or Pentecost. In the Ordinary Form, Easter is one of two. The days of the octave are given the second-highest rank in the calendar (second only to the Paschal Triduum and Easter itself), ranking even above normal solemnities.[2] The paschal sequence Victimae paschali laudes may be sung before the Gospel reading on each of these days.

The Gospel readings for each of middle days within the octave are taken from the various Scriptural accounts of the Resurrection of Jesus.

References
  1. Kosloski, Philip (April 24, 2019). "What Is the Octave of Easter?". Aleteia. Archived from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  2. "Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar". The Roman Missal (3rd ed.). New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing. 2011. p. 96.
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