EASTER OCTAVE
WHY EASTER OCTAVE ( 8 DAYS AFTER EASTER SUNDAY STILL A SOLEMNITY). Dear friends in the Lord , receive my 2021 Easter greetings. For the entire week after Easter Sunday, the Church celebrates what is called an OCTAVE ( This is from Latin Octo which means eight). The Resurrection is so important that one day isn’t enough to celebrate it. So for eight whole days, it is still actually 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙖𝙮. The Easter Octave has its origins in celebrating the new resurrection-life of those who were baptised at the Easter Vigil. But the octave wasn’t just about the neophytes. The Church, through her liturgy, was continuing to remind them-and us! of the importance of remembering their baptism. Celebrating the anniversary of our baptism as a feast day, he says, should be a Christian instinct. The joy that the Christian has had this past week must now flow over into a life of serving his neighbour. Right before His passion Jesus gave us the “new commandment” to...