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The Octave of Easter is the eight-day period, or
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, that begins on
Easter Sunday Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek language, Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, de ...
and ends with
Second Sunday of Easter The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter, White Sunday (), Quasimodo Sunday, B ...
. It marks the beginning of Eastertide. The first seven of these eight days are also collectively known as Easter Week.


Days in the octave

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Easter Sunday Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek language, Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, de ...
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Second Sunday of Easter The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter, White Sunday (), Quasimodo Sunday, B ...


Liturgical celebration


Roman Rite

In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, Easter is one of two solemnities with
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; the other is
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. The days of the octave are given the second-highest rank in the calendar (second only to the
Paschal Triduum The Paschal Triduum or Easter Triduum (Latin: ''Triduum Paschale''), Holy Triduum (Latin: ''Triduum Sacrum''), or the Three Days, is the Christian period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, reaches its ...
and Easter itself), ranking even above normal solemnities. The paschal
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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 The resurrection of Jesus () is Christianity, Christian belief that God in Christianity, God Resurrection, raised Jesus in Christianity, Jesus from the dead on the third day after Crucifixion of Jesus, his crucifixion, starting—or Preexis ...
. * Monday: * Tuesday: * Wednesday: * Thursday: * Friday: * Saturday:


Lutheran

The Octave of Easter is celebrated with daily
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. ''The
Lutheran Missal Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...
'' states:


References

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