Octave of Easter

Called The White Sunday ( Dominica in Albis Latin ), even small Ostertag or small Easter is the Sunday after Easter ( six weeks before Pentecost). The White Octave of Easter Sunday, those eight days from Easter Sunday ends at that liturgical all be committed as a high festival and thus with Gloria in the Mass and Te Deum in the Liturgy of the Hours in the Catholic Church. The earliest date of the White Sunday is March 29, the latest date is May 2

Importance

In Catholic churches, the terms " second Sunday of Easter "or " White Sunday " usual. The origin of the name " White Sunday " is not certain. He probably has to do with the white Taufgewändern that were worn in the early church of the baptized at the Easter Vigil until this day. In the Protestant liturgy of the Sunday after the first words of the Introit called Quasimodogeniti ( Like the newborn ).

In the Catholic lectionary is provided as gospel in all three reading years Jn 20.19-29 EU. The first readings Acts 2.41 to 45 EU ( A), Acts 4.32 to 35 EU ( B) and Acts 5:12-16 EU ( C) tell us about life in the early church. The second readings 1 Peter 1:3-9 EU ( A), 1 Jn 5:1-6 EU ( B) and Rev 1.9 -11a .12 F.17 -19 EU ( C) emphasize the hope that in the overcoming of death is through Christ for believers.

In the Catholic Church, the White Sunday Pope Pius X is traditional since the pontificate of the day for the solemn First Communion of children. Due to the Easter holidays choose many parishes for now, however, a different, usually later date.

April 30, 2000, Pope John Paul II established the Catholic Church, that in this day of " Mercy Sunday " is to be celebrated. He thereby fulfilled a wish of Sister Mary Faustina Kowalska Polish (1905-1938), which he had canonized on this day.