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The Second Sunday of Easter is the eighth day of the Christian season of Eastertide, and the seventh after Easter Sunday. [1] It is known by various names, including Divine Mercy Sunday, [2] [3] the Octave Day of Easter, White Sunday [a] (Latin: Dominica in albis), Quasimodo Sunday, Bright Sunday and Low Sunday.
v. t. e. The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris, a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873. The order is based on some teachings from the Bible, [ 1] and is open to people of all ...
t. e. The Paschal Triduum or Easter Triduum ( Latin: Triduum Paschale ), [ 1] Holy Triduum (Latin: Triduum Sacrum ), or the Three Days, [ 2] is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, [ 3] reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday. [ 4]
Easter, [ nb 1] also called Pascha[ nb 2] ( Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [ nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. [ 10 ...
May 19 (Eastern) 2025 date. May 4 (Western) May 4 (Eastern) 2026 date. April 19 (Western) April 26 (Eastern) The Third Sunday of Easter or Third Sunday of Eastertide is the third Sunday of the Easter season, being the day that occurs two weeks after the Christian celebration of Easter Sunday. It is also known as Good Shepherd Sunday.
The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit —sometimes dressed with clothes—bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behavior ...
In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year. The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen ...
Quinquagesima. Quinquagesima ( / ˌkwɪŋkwəˈdʒɛsɪmə / ), in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide ). It is also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesimae, Estomihi, Shrove Sunday, Pork Sunday, or the Sunday next ...