" The Easter celebration continues during the Easter season. The 50 days which run from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday are celebrated with great joy, as a single holiday, indeed as" a great Sunday.
After the conclusion of the Vigil of Easter, Passover begins on time, which commemorates the resurrection and glorification of our Lord Jesus Christ, the gift of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of the activity of the Church , while expected today to reach eternal glory its fulfillment in the consummation of the world.
The Easter season is made up of the "fifty Easter " or 50 days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday, and somehow constitute " one and only holiday " the Great Sunday ( St. Athanasius, Epist. Fest. 1 ).
The origin of Easter fifty confused with the annual celebration of Easter, at first appeared as an Easter holiday that lasted for 50 days. From the fourth century C. Easter fragmented drive, when they began to be held in a historical divine salvific actions.
Octave of Easter.
The first 8 days of the fifties are the octave of Easter, celebrated as the Solemnity of the Lord. This week - in albis, as it is called in the Roman Rite - came in the fourth century by the desire to ensure the neophytes a catechesis on the sacred mysteries they had experienced. Closes on Sunday week, the eighth day, is the most solemn day of the liturgical year after Easter Sunday. As Benedict XVI said " Today Sunday concludes the Octave of Easter, as a single day," made by the Lord ", marked with the emblem of the Resurrection and the joy of the disciples to see Jesus. Since ancient times called Sunday in Albis, the Latin name alba, the white robe given by the neophytes took in baptism on Easter night, and took off after eight days "(Homily 21 Sunday Easter 11.IV.2010 )
Pentecost.
The concluding day celebration of the Easter season, Pentecost, was born in the late third century. This party, which once commemorated the week of Passover week, came under the influence of the Jewish holiday of the same name. In the fourth century, the party had a celebratory double content: Ascension of the Lord and the Holy Spirit's descent, as notes on the testimony of the Church of Jerusalem. No clutch, little by little, the process of historificación liturgical of the saving acts of Christ, led some churches to divide the party celebrating the Ascension on the fortieth day after Easter.
Finally, the seventh-eighth centuries, the Roman Church added to the eighth day of Pentecost, in response to the octave of Easter. The origin of this institution, which breaks the fifty Easter, is in need of catechesis for those who had been baptized on the day of Pentecost. The eighth was abolished by the reform of the calendar currently in force, and that obscured the symbolism of the Easter season.
The texts of the feast of the Ascension recall the historical fact of Christ's rising to the heavens, while founded hope in the second coming of Christ and the glorification of man. The feast of Pentecost, in turn, shows the intimate relationship between the Resurrection of Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit all the time Easter is considered as the time of the Spirit. Is thus highlighted the unitary character of the whole Easter celebration ( death, resurrection and ascension of Christ and the coming of the Paraclete, moments of a single divine salvific mystery ).
Baustimal Renewal.
The first three Sundays we read the Gospels of the apparitions of the Risen Lord, while the fourth is reserved for the parable of the Good Shepherd and the rest of Christ's priestly discourse after the Last Supper, as are contained in the text San Juan. The Sunday Gospel readings are taken from the New Testament: thus, the first reading contains the Acts of the Apostles, while the second is devoted to the First Epistle of St. Peter, the First Epistle of John and Revelation.
Thus, the stresses of Easter baptismal renewal of Christian life, in continuity with the novelty of the event of the Resurrection. The Church sees itself as the continuing presence of Christ, moved by the dynamism of the Spirit, on the way to his true home, with the second and final coming of Christ.
During the Easter season, Christians remember the new life that began with the celebration of the paschal mystery be perpetuated throughout its existence. In the midst of ordinary circumstances, the faithful discover the presence of the Risen Lord who calls them to witness and give testimony of their men.
Easter Time begins Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday of Pentecost. The first week is the octave of Easter and is celebrated as the Solemnity of the Lord. In places where it can not be held in Thursday, Ascension of the Lord was moved to Sunday Easter VII. Easter Sunday have precedence over all solemnities and feasts of the Lord, which will be moved to Monday. During Easter time used white.
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