Thursday, April 16, 2009

Easter "Day"

The church doesn't know how to let go of a good thing. Beginning on Easter Sunday, the Preface for Easter refers to the whole week as "Easter Day." One eight-day-long DAY!  Isn't it marvelous?

The eighth day (or octave) of Easter, which is now also Divine Mercy Sunday, concludes this one great Day with the giving of the Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of sins on Easter Sunday night. Seven, as in the number of days in a week, symbolizes earthly, human, natural completeness and fulfillment.  The eighth day is the day which opens up to etenal perfeection, the day without end.

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