Octave (liturgical)

Octave (Latin Octavus, the eighth ') referred to in the Catholic liturgy ( a) the eighth day ( Octave ) to a feast, which is celebrated as the echo and the period, and ( b ) the eight days ( octave, octave ') from the hard to its Octave. Here, the day of the wedding feast is included.

Until the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, all major festivals had an octave. Grasslands have survived only two: the Easter and the Christmas Octave.

Each of the eight days of Easter - the Easter octave between Easter Sunday and the so-called White Sunday - is celebrated as a Solemnity and has its own liturgical texts.

  • On December 26, the feast of St. Stephen.
  • On December 27, the feast of St. Evangelist and Apostle John.
  • On December 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
  • The 29, 30 and 31 December are days in the octave, the liturgical texts of the daily Mass are taken from the Masses on Christmas Day.
  • On Sunday in the octave is the feast of the Holy Family.
  • On January 1, the Octave (formerly also Ebenweihtag ), is the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and the naming of Jesus.

In the calendar of the Orthodox Church only Easter has an octave; the Christmas festival lasts there for two weeks until the Theophany ( in the Latin Church the Epiphany; popular Epiphany ) on 6 January. In the Octave of Easter and the two weeks after Christmas omitted there due to the festive character of all fast days. Other celebrations are not octavo with the Orthodox.

In popular piety sometimes local hard weeks to saints and patron feasts are called " Octave ", about the " Anna- octave " in Duren, the Wallfahrtsoktav to St. Jude Thaddeus in Heisterbacherrott that Gezelin octave in Leverkusen -Schlebusch or Muttergottesoktav in Luxembourg.

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