EASTER
Sir, —I would draw to the attention of your commercial editor and to the many modern pagans and others who make the mistake of referring to “Easter Week’’ and “Easter Saturday*' when they mean “Holy Week’’ and “Holy Saturday” or “Easter Eve.” Holy Week is one of the most solemn in the Church’s year as it commemorates the sufferings of our Blessed Lord which culminated in His crucifixion, and descent into Hell, while Easter Week (of which Easter Day is the first) is an octave of great rejoicing for His resurrection from the grave. Easter Saturday is the sixth day after Easter Day, and the day before Low Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Easter Day. I trust that this information will enable us to be preserved in future from such an incongruity as “Easter Trots” two weeks before Easter!—Yours, etc., ANGLO-CATHOLIC. April 11, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27631, 12 April 1955, Page 11
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147EASTER Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27631, 12 April 1955, Page 11
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