Octave of Easter

However, if it falls during the octave of Easter, they should not fast.

The municipal holiday is the Monday after Octave of Easter.

The white mozzetta was reintroduced during the Octave of Easter in 2008.

The octave of Easter which closes after Saturday has its own peculiar Office.

The first eight days constitute the Octave of Easter and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord.

The first week of the Easter Season is known as Easter Week or the Octave of Easter.

Only the Octaves of Easter, Christmas and Pentecost were to be celebrated; all others occurring either in the universal or in particular calendars were suppressed.

Wednesday within the third week after the Octave of Easter: Octave of St. Joseph, Greater Double.

In the Roman Catholic Church and some Anglican churches, Easter Friday falls within the Octave of Easter.

In Eastertide, the Gradual is normally omitted, and a second Alleluia is sung in its place, except within the Octave of Easter.

Memorials are never celebrated if they occur on a solemnity, a feast, a Sunday, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, or the Octave of Easter.

Traditionally during the Octave of Easter, the Pope wears the white paschal mozzetta, which is of white damask silk trimmed with white ermine.

Divine Mercy Sunday is a Roman Catholic solemnity celebrated on the Sunday after Easter, the Octave of Easter.

The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday - the Sunday after Easter.

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.

April 26, 1500 - (Octave of Easter Sunday) Franciscan friar Henrique Soares of Coimbra goes ashore to celebrate mass, curiously watched by some 200 Tupiniquim Indians.

They are used as the sole Psalmody at daytime prayer on solemnities, except for certain solemnities of the Lord and during the octave of Easter and those solemnities falling on 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, Easter Tuesday, etc.

In years such as 2008 when March 25 falls during Holy Week or Easter Week, the Annunciation is moved to the Monday after the Octave of Easter, which is the Sunday after Easter.

Easter Monday in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar is the second day of the octave of Easter Week and analogously in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the second day of Bright Week.

Properly, and according to their own canons, the Nestorians ought to say Mass on every Sunday and Friday, on every festival, and daily during the first, middle, and last week of Lent and the octave of Easter.

During this time, the word is added widely to verses and responses associated with prayers, to antiphons of psalms, and, during the Octave of Easter and on Pentecost Sunday, to the dismissal at the end of Mass ("Ite missa est").

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.

However, whenever April 2 falls within Holy Week or within the Octave of Easter, his feast is celebrated on the Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent (that is, the Saturday before Palm Sunday, just as April 2, 1672, was).