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Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship) in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
If Easter Sunday or Easter Monday falls on April 25, the Greater Litanies, which in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite are on that day, are transferred to the following Tuesday. [52] By a decree of May 5, 2000, the Second Sunday of Easter (the Sunday after Easter Day itself), is known also in the Roman Rite as the Feast of the Divine Mercy. [53]
The Sunday Matins Gospels (known as the "Matins Resurrection Gospels") are an eleven-week cycle of readings taken from the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection appearances of Jesus. The Sunday Matins Gospels are: Matthew 28:16–20; Mark 16:1–8; Mark 16:9–20; Luke 24:1–12; Luke 24:12–35; Luke 24:36–53; John 20:1–10; John 20:11–18 ...
The lectionaries (both Catholic and RCL versions) are organized into three-year cycles of readings. The years are designated A, B, or C. Each yearly cycle begins on the first Sunday of Advent (the Sunday between 27 November and 3 December inclusive). Year B follows year A, year C follows year B, then back again to A. Year A: Gospel of Matthew ...
The first eight days of the Easter Season were made the Octave of Easter and celebrated as Solemnities of the Lord, with proper readings and prayers. [10] The Second Sunday of Easter , which ends the Easter Octave, has also been called “White Sunday” (Dominica in albis), among other traditional names .
The "Misericórdia Dómini" introit for this Sunday was swapped with that of the following Sunday, [4] and the "Good Shepherd" Gospel reading was likewise moved forward one week. In the Lutheran Churches , the Second Sunday of Easter, according to The Lutheran Missal , is known as Good Shepherd Sunday and "gives us Jesus’ description of ...
Bright Week, Pascha Week or Renewal Week (Greek: Διακαινήσιμος Ἑβδομάς) is the name used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches for the period of seven days beginning on Easter and continuing up to (but not including) the following Sunday, which is known as Thomas Sunday. The entire week following ...
Triumph of Orthodoxy—1st Sunday of Lent—commemoration of the restoration of icons after the defeat of the iconoclast heresy in 843: 6th Sunday before Pascha (42 days) Memorial Saturdays —2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturdays of Great Lent—commemorative Divine Liturgies and memorial services for the dead are celebrated on the