Easter Week or Bright Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year.
Western Church
In the Latin Rite of Roman 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 Latin Rite is one of the 23 Sui iuris Particular Churches within the Catholic Church. Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs Western Christianity is a term used to cover the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a Liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more Saints Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. Easter Saturday or Bright Saturday is the Saturday after the Christian festival of Easter, also called Saturday in Easter week. [1] 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 usage of the term Easter Saturday to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter. Holy Week ( Latin: Hebdomada Sancta or Maior Hebdomada, "Greater Week" in Christianity is the last week before Easter. A Liturgy is a set form of ceremony or pattern of worship Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used (whether recommended or prescribed by a Christian congregation or Holy Saturday ( Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum) is the day after Good Friday.
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[1]), (2) Monday in Easter Week (e. Common Worship is the name given to the series of services authorised by the General Synod of the Church of England and launched on the first Sunday of Advent g. in the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer calendar), or (3) Easter Monday. The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. 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 Church and Anglicanism with an octave. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs " Octave " has two senses in Christian liturgical usage However, owing to modern working patterns, many Easter celebrations now occur on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday only.
Eastern Church
In the Eastern Orthodox Church and in Eastern Catholic Churches, the days of Bright Week are named: Bright Monday, Bright Tuesday, etc. Bright Week Lambri --> or Renewal Week is the name used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world This article refers to Eastern Churches in full communion with the Holy See Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a Holiday in some largely Christian cultures especially Roman Catholic Each day repeats the joyful hymns of Pascha (Easter), with only a few variations, taken from the Octoechos, according to the Eight Tones of the Orthodox liturgy. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. The Octoechos ( Greek:; Slavonic: Октонхъ Oktoikh, or Осмогласникъ Osmoglasnik)&mdashliterally the book Octoechos (also Octoichos; Greek:, meaning the "Eight Modes" is the fundamental structure for classifying and describing modes ( One tone (with the exception of the Seventh Tone—known as the "Grave Tone") is assigned to each day:
- Sunday of Pascha (Tone One)
- Bright Monday (Tone Two)
- Bright Tuesday (Tone Three)
- Bright Wednesday (Tone Four)
- Bright Thursday (Tone Five)
- Bright Friday (Tone Six)
- Bright Saturday (Tone Eight)
Bright Week is considered to be one single joyful day, although the celebrations on the Sunday of Pascha are the most solemn. The Divine Services are completely different during this time than any other time of the year. Canonical hours are divisions of time developed by the Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed Prayers of the daily round Everything during the service is sung joyfully, rather than read. There is no reading from the Psalter, and the services are much shorter than usual. A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material There is no fasting during Bright Week. Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all Food, Drink, or both for a period of time The Holy Doors in the iconostasis remain open throughout the entire week, and the Artos (a leavened loaf of bread that was blessed during the Paschal Vigil) remains in the church and is venerated by everyone as they enter the temple as a way of "greeting the Resurrected Christ". In Eastern Christianity an iconostasis (the plural is iconostases) also called the Templon, is a wall of Icons and religious paintings The term Artos ( Greek: Áρτος "leavened loaf" refers to a loaf of leavened bread that is blessed during services in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil or the Great Vigil of Easter, is a service held in many Christian churches as the first official celebration
Bright Friday is the annual feast day of a Wonder-working icon of the Theotokos (Mother of God), known as the "Life-giving Spring", and there are optional hymns which may be chanted in honor of the feast in addition to the paschal hymns. Easter Friday or Bright Friday is the Friday after the Christian festival of Easter. The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a Liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more Saints Thaumaturgy (from the Greek words θαῦμα thaûma, stem thaumat-, meaning "miracle" or "marvel" and ἔργον érgon An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn, "image" is a religious work of art most commonly a painting from Eastern Christianity. Theotokos (Θεοτόκος translit Theotókos) is a title of Mary the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, Theotokos (Θεοτόκος translit Theotókos) is a title of Mary the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, If any other feasts on the fixed cycle occur during Bright Week, they are transferred to a convenient day after Thomas Sunday. The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Octave Day of Easter, sometimes known as Low Sunday (and also known historically as White Sunday Whitsunday St
Just before the beginning of the Ninth Hour on Bright Saturday, the Holy Doors are closed, and the services begin to return to their more normal form (although the chanting of the Troparion of Pascha, "Christ is risen from the dead. None, or the Ninth Hour, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies Easter Saturday or Bright Saturday is the Saturday after the Christian festival of Easter, also called Saturday in Easter week. A troparion ( Greek: τροπάριον plural troparia, τροπάρια Church Slavonic: тропа́рь tropar) in Byzantine . . ", as well as certain other paschal hymns, continue to be chanted until Ascension.
References
- ^ a b The Calendar: The Seasons. The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England (2000–2006). The Archbishops' Council is part of the governance of the Church of England. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Retrieved on 2008-02-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons
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