Also known as White Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, Alb Sunday, and Antipascha Sunday, Low Sunday is the Sunday after Easter. It is called Low Sunday because its occurrence is unimportant after the climax of Easter. People often wore white garments on this day (hence "White" and "Alb" Sunday). Quasimodo means "semi-formed" and Antipascha means "after the lamb".
Since 1970, this Sunday has been officially known as the Second Sunday of Easter (that is to say, the Easter season) in the Roman Catholic Church.
This Sunday is apparently known as Quasimodo Sunday because the traditional Introit for this day begins Quasi modo geniti infantes (As newborn babes), from the First Epistle of Peter.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the first Sunday after Pascha (Easter) is called Thomas Sunday, after the Gospel passage read that day which recounts the story of Christ appearing to St. Thomas in order to dispel his doubt about the Resurrection.
LOWSUNDAY, the first Sunday after Easter, so called because of its proximity to the "highest" of all feasts and Sundays, Easter.
It was also known formerly as White Sunday, being still officially termed by the Roman Catholic Church Dominica in albis, " Sunday in white garments," in allusion to the white garments anciently worn on this day by those who had been baptized and received into the Church just before Easter.
Alb Sunday, Quasimodo and, in the Greek Church, Antipascha, and aevrEp07rp6.r77 Kvpccudi (literally "second-first Sunday," i.e.
Sunday is traditionally the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week, between Saturday and Monday, and the second day of the weekend in some cultures.
EasterSunday, the day in the Bible on which Christ rose from the dead, celebrated across the Christian world and regarded as the most important day in the Christian calendar.
LowSunday, first Sunday after Easter, is also known as the Octave of Easter, White Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, Alb Sunday, Antipascha Sunday, and Divine Mercy Sunday.
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