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srfnolen
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Is the Octave of Easter 8 days or 8 weeks?
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RyanBlack
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8 days
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srfnolen
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Then why does the season continue for 50 days, through the Ascension of Our Lord to Pentecost Sunday. Is this season given a name?
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ByzKat
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The Latin Rite does octaves of feasts; the Byzantine Rite, not so much. Much more often, a feast is celebrated for seven days, ending on the seventh day, and the next day is something else. That last day of the feast is called the Leave-taking, and repeats the feast-day liturgy.
In the Byzantine Rite, the time from Pascha to Pentecost (actually a week later, on the Sunday of All Saints) is called the Time of the Pentecostarion, after the liturgical book containing all the hymns for that period.
The Paschal season proper lasts forty days, from Easter to the day before Ascension. Thus, the Wednesday before Pentecost is the "Leave-taking of Pascha.:
In the Byzantine Rite, the time from Pascha to Pentecost (actually a week later, on the Sunday of All Saints) is called the Time of the Pentecostarion, after the liturgical book containing all the hymns for that period.
The Paschal season proper lasts forty days, from Easter to the day before Ascension. Thus, the Wednesday before Pentecost is the "Leave-taking of Pascha.:
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CatholicZ09
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We treat today through next Sunday as if it were still Easter Sunday. Since Easter Sunday is such a joyous time, we celebrate it for eight days.
The Easter season is altogether fifty days because Jesus did not ascend until forty days after His resurrection, and the descent of the Holy Spirit did not happen until fifty days after His resurrection, so we consider these fifty days the “Easter season.”
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