"de divina misericordia) in the General Roman Calendar. John Paul II, who died in April 2005 on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, was beatified on Divine Mercy Sunday, 1 May 2011, by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. and was canonized, with Pope John XXIII on Divine Mercy Sunday, 27 April 2014, by Pope Francis. In Chile, mainly in Santiago Metropolitan Region, on Quasimodo Sunday is celebrated the ""Cuasimodo Feast"". Huasos in adorned carriages or bicycles accompany the priest to give communion to the infirm. ""Antipascha"" is the name given to the eighth day of Pascha (Easter) in the Eastern"
"prescribed readings. The first Sunday after Easter is called ""Quasimodogeniti"". Some sources name the Sunday after Easter the second Sunday in Easter, counting Easter Sunday as the first. 1 – First cantata cycle, : 2 – Second cantata cycle, : 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : 5 – Other and/or later: The second Sunday after Easter is called Misericordias Domini. 1 – First cantata cycle, : 2 – Second year cycle and/or chorale cantata cycle: 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : 5"
"after the 5th Sunday after Easter)<br> The Octave of the Ascension (Thursday after the 6th Sunday after Easter)<br> The Vigil of Pentecost (Saturday after the 6th Sunday after Easter)<br> Pentecost (7th Sunday after Easter)<br> Holy Trinity and the Octave of Pentecost (8th Sunday after Easter)<br> Corpus Christi (Thursday after the 8th Sunday after Easter)<br> Octave of Corpus Christi (Thursday after the 9th Sunday after Easter)<br> Sacred Heart of Jesus (Friday after the 9th Sunday after Easter)<br> Octave of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Friday after the 10th Sunday after Easter)<br> The 1954 calendar assigned special celebrations also to the days"
"day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter. While the first day of Easter Week is called ""Easter Day"" or ""Easter Sunday"", the other days in the week may be designated according to any of the following patterns: (1) ""Monday of Easter Week"" (e.g. in the Church of England's ""Common Worship"" calendar), (2) ""Monday in Easter Week"" (e.g., in the Anglican Church's ""Book of Common Prayer"" calendar), or (3) ""Easter Monday"". In former years, Easter, as the most important celebration in Christianity, was observed for a week, and it still is celebrated in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic"
"day before Palm Sunday is Sabbatum in Traditione Symboli. This, the Blessing of the Font, the extra Masses pro Baptizatis in Ecclesiâ Hyemali on Easter Eve and every day of Easter Week, and the name of the first Sunday after Easter ""in albis depositis"", show even more of a lingering memory of the old Easter Baptisms than the similar survivals in the Roman Rite. Holy Week is Hebdomada Authentica. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Day are named as in the Roman Rite. The five Sundays after Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi follow, as in"
"for details). Easter Saturday Easter Saturday, on the Christian calendar, is the Saturday following the festival of Easter, the Saturday of Easter or Bright Week. In the liturgy of Western Christianity it is the last day of Easter Week, sometimes referred to as the Saturday of Easter Week or Saturday in Easter Week. In the liturgy of Eastern Christianity it is the last day of Bright Week, and called Bright Saturday, The Bright and Holy Septave Saturday of Easter Eve, or The Bright and Holy Septave Paschal Artos and Octoechoes Saturday of Iscariot's Byzantine Easter Eve. Easter Saturday is the"
"Bright Week Bright Week, Pascha Week or Renewal Week () is the name used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches for the period of seven days beginning on Easter and continuing up to (but not including) the following Sunday, which is known as Thomas Sunday. Latin Rite and other Christian groups such as Anglicans refer to this period as Easter Week, not to be confused with the Octave of Easter, which includes the following Sunday. The entire week following Easter is to be set aside by Orthodox Christians for the celebration of the Resurrection. According to the"
"first on 4 June 1724, a shortened version in 1726, and the complete version in 1731. Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated in all the Western liturgical churches: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Methodist. The Sundays following Pentecost, until Advent, are numbered from this day. In traditional Catholic usage, the ""First"
"a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established two rules, independence of the Jewish calendar and worldwide uniformity, which were the only rules for Easter explicitly laid down by the council. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March, but calculations vary. Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well"
"Easter Saturday Easter Saturday, on the Christian calendar, is the Saturday following the festival of Easter, the Saturday of Easter or Bright Week. In the liturgy of Western Christianity it is the last day of Easter Week, sometimes referred to as the Saturday of Easter Week or Saturday in Easter Week. In the liturgy of Eastern Christianity it is the last day of Bright Week, and called Bright Saturday, The Bright and Holy Septave Saturday of Easter Eve, or The Bright and Holy Septave Paschal Artos and Octoechoes Saturday of Iscariot's Byzantine Easter Eve. Easter Saturday is the day preceding"
"for the Third Sunday of Easter (then called the Second Sunday After Easter). Thus pre- and post-1969 references to the day may differ by a week. In many Catholic dioceses (Seville, Capuchins) this day is called the feast of Our Lady Mother of the Good Shepherd; at Jerusalem and in the churches of the Franciscans it is called the feast of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ; in the Greek Church it is called ion myrophoron (Sunday of the women who brought ointments to the sepulchre of Christ); the Armenians celebrate on this Sunday the dedication of the first Christian church"
"Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated in all the Western liturgical churches: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Methodist. The Sundays following Pentecost, until Advent, are numbered from this day. In traditional Catholic usage, the ""First Sunday After Pentecost"" is on the same day as ""Trinity Sunday"". In the revised Roman rite,"
"of a local patron saint, or for important feast days such as Saint George, which may be combined with the paschal celebration. If it becomes necessary to celebrate a funeral during Bright Week, even this service is radically different, and follows for the most part the format for Paschal Matins, with only a few funeral hymns being chanted. The Sunday which follows Pascha (the Second Sunday ""of"" Pascha) is called ""Thomas Sunday"", because it recounts the appearance of Jesus to the Apostle Thomas eight days after his resurrection (). Thomas Sunday is also called ""Antipascha"" (literally, ""in the place of"
"called Passion Sunday, has the official name of the First Sunday in Passiontide, and Palm Sunday has the additional name of the Second Sunday in Passiontide. In Sunday and ferial Masses (but not on feasts celebrated in the first of these two weeks) the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Entrance Antiphon and at the Lavabo, as well as in the responds in the Divine Office. In the post-1969 form of the Roman Rite, ""Passion Sunday"" and ""Palm Sunday"" are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called ""Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion"". The former Passion Sunday became"
"Easter Monday Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a holiday in some countries. Easter Monday in the Western Christian liturgical calendar is the second day of Eastertide and analogously in the Byzantine Rite is the second day of Bright Week. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches, this day is called ""Bright Monday"" or ""Renewal Monday"". The services, as in the rest of Bright Week, are quite different from during the rest of the year and are similar to the services on Pascha (Easter Sunday) and include an outdoor procession after the Divine"
"Christmas Sunday Christmas Sunday is a name for the Sunday after Christmas. In the United Kingdom, if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, 26 December is sometimes referred to as ""Christmas Sunday"", and Boxing Day moves to 27 December, although this practice has now fallen out of common usage and 26 December is usually referred to as Boxing Day even when it falls on a Sunday. This change is believed to result from the legalisation of Sunday trading in England and Wales in 1994. In Western Christianity, the first Sunday after Christmas is called the ""First Sunday of Christmas"". Christmas"
"– Other and/or later: The third Sunday after Easter is called Jubilate. Composed before the numbered cycles: 1 – First year in Leipzig, : 2 – Second year cycle, : 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : 5 – Other and/or later: The fourth Sunday after Easter is called Cantate. Composed before the numbered cycles: 1 – First cantata cycle, : 2 – Second year cycle, : 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : The fifth Sunday after Easter is called Rogate. 1 –"
"(). They rolled a large rock over the entrance of the tomb (). Then they returned home and rested, because Shabbat had begun at sunset (). Matt. 28:1 ""After the Shabbat, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb"". i.e. ""After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week..."". ""He is not here; he has risen, just as he said..."".(Matt. 28:6) On the third day, which is now known as Easter Sunday (or Pascha), Jesus rose from the dead. Byzantine Christians (Eastern Christians who"
"Holy Saturday Holy Saturday (), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called ""Joyous Saturday"" or ""the Saturday of Light"" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. In Eastern Orthodoxy this day, known as Holy and Great Saturday, is also called The Great Sabbath since it is"
"of the following Saturday. In the Roman Rite, the Easter octave allows no other feasts to be celebrated or commemorated during it; a solemnity, such as the Annunciation, falling within it is transferred to the following Monday. If Easter Sunday or Easter Monday falls on 25 April, the Greater Litanies, which in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite are on that day, are transferred to the following Tuesday. By a decree of May 5, 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter (the Sunday after Easter Day itself), is known also in the Roman Rite as the Feast of the Divine"
"Easter Friday Easter Friday, or Bright Friday, is the Friday after the Christian festival of Easter. At times, this name has been confused with Good Friday, which falls a week earlier. Since the date of Easter is calculated differently by Eastern and Western Christians, the date of the Western Churches' Easter Friday will often be different from the Eastern Bright Friday. In the Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches, Easter Friday falls within the Octave of Easter. The date of Easter Friday changes from year to year, following the changing date of Easter Week. Just to show a few"
"an octave, the following Sunday was called Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, but when this octave was abolished in 1955, it was called Sunday after the Ascension. Pentecost was followed by an octave, which some reckoned as part of Eastertide. When the Anglican and Lutheran churches implemented their own calendar and lectionary reforms in 1976, they adopted the same shortened definition of the Easter season as the Roman Catholic Church had promulgated six years earlier. In the Church of England, the Easter season begins with the Easter Vigil and ends after Evening Prayer (or Night Prayer) on the"
"gives rise to the following table: Example: If the epact is 27 (xxvii), an ecclesiastical new moon falls on every date labeled ""xxvii"". The ecclesiastical full moon falls 13 days later. From the table above, this gives a new moon on 4 March and 3 April, and so a full moon on 17 March and 16 April. Then Easter Day is the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after 21 March. This definition uses ""on or after 21 March"" to avoid ambiguity with historic meaning of the word ""after"". In modern language, this phrase simply means"
"the Octave Day of Easter (also known as St. Thomas Sunday or Divine Mercy Sunday). The term ""Easter Saturday"" is also used colloquially to refer to Holy Saturday a.k.a. Easter Eve – a week before the religious holiday of Easter Saturday, probably because of references to the Easter weekend. Many people, especially religious authorities, regard this alternative meaning as inaccurate, but it remains in common usage. The use of the term ""Bright Saturday"" avoids this confusion by clearly referring to the Saturday 6 days after Easter Sunday. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the"
"17th Sunday before Pentecost). The greatest feast is Pascha. Easter for both East and West is calculated as the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or after March 21 (nominally the day of the vernal equinox), but the Orthodox calculations are based on the Julian calendar, whose March 21 corresponds at present with April 3 of the Gregorian calendar, and on calculations of the date of full moon different from those used in the West (see computus for further details). The date of Pascha is central to the entire ecclesiastical year, determining not only the date for"
"(see table). The ecclesiastical new moon which falls on or next after March 8 is of special importance, since it is the paschal new moon that begins the paschal lunar month (see table). The fourteenth day of the same lunar month is the first of the calendar year to occur on or next after March 21. This fourteenth day was called the ""paschal full moon"" by medieval computists. Easter is the following Sunday. Calendar pages in medieval liturgical books indicated the ecclesiastical new moons by writing the Golden Number to the left of the day of the month on which"
"Easter Week Easter Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. It follows Holy Week. In the Latin Rite of Catholicism, Anglican and other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week ""before"" Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular misuse of the term ""Easter Saturday"" to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the"
"Easter Monday to the second Sunday after Easter 1725. A shared characteristic of these cantatas is their structure: they start with a passage from the bible (vox Christi in the last of these cantatas), followed by an Aria, then a chorale for one or two voices, Recitative, Aria, and a concluding four-part chorale. The librettist of these cantatas is unknown, but is likely the same for all three. The first Sunday after Easter, Quasimodogeniti, concludes the Octave of Easter, and the next Sunday is called Misericordias Domini: None of these cantatas were included in the chorale cantata cycle remaining at"
"St. Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary, confessor, and patron of the Universal Church (Wednesday after the 2nd Sunday after Easter)<br> The Octave of St. Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary, confessor and patron of the Universal Church (Wednesday after the 3rd Sunday after Easter)<br> The Lesser Litanies at St. Mary Major (Monday after the 5th Sunday after Easter)<br> The Lesser Litanies at St. John Lateran (Tuesday after the 5th Sunday after Easter)<br> The Vigil of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Lesser Litanies at St. Peter's (Wednesday after the 5th Sunday after Easter)<br> The Ascension (Thursday"
"countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation. In such countries it is celebrated on the following Sunday (the forty-third day of Eastertide). The nine days from that feast until the Saturday before Pentecost (inclusive) are days of preparation for the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, which inspired the form of prayer called a novena. Before the 1969 revision of the calendar, the Sundays were called First Sunday ""after"" Easter, Second Sunday ""after"" Easter, etc. The Sunday preceding the feast of the Ascension of the Lord was sometimes, though not officially, called Rogation Sunday, and when the Ascension had"
"the Sunday occurring after 6 January"". Before the 1969 revision of its liturgy, the Sundays following the Octave of Epiphany or, when this was abolished, following the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which was instituted to take the place of the Octave Day of Epiphany were named as the ""Second (etc., up to Sixth) Sunday after Epiphany"", as the at least 24 Sundays following Pentecost Sunday and Trinity Sunday were known as the ""Second (etc.) Sunday after Pentecost"". (If a year had more than 24 Sundays after Pentecost, up to four unused post-Epiphany Sundays were inserted between the"
"the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and on Saturday of Easter Week the Decollation of St. John. The Orthodox (Greek) Church celebrates on Friday of Easter Week the feast of Our Lady, the Living Fountain (shrine at Constantinople). The Sundays from Easter to Ascension Day, besides being called the First, Second (etc.) Sunday after Easter, have their own peculiar titles. The first is the ""Dominica in albis"", or Low Sunday. In the Dioceses of Portugal and Brazil (also in the ecclesiastical province of St. Louis, Mo.) on the Monday after Low Sunday is celebrated the feast of the Joys"
"if in January, the dominical letter was A, it is changed to the preceding, which is g, etc.; and the letter f is kept twice, on the 24th and 25th. Friday after Passion Sunday: Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Greater Double, Com. of the Feria. Wednesday within the second week after the Octave of Easter: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Confessor, and Patron of the Universal Church, Double of the I Class with a common Octave.<br> Wednesday within the third week after the Octave of Easter: Octave of St. Joseph, Greater Double. Last"