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LOW SUNDAY

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The first Sunday after Easter. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it is
apparently intended to indicate the contrast between it and the great Easter
festival immediately preceding, and also, perhaps, to signify that, being the
Octave Day of Easter, it was considered part of that feast, though in a lower
degree. Its liturgical name is Dominica in albis depositis, derived from the
fact that on it the neophytes, who had been baptized on Easter Eve, then for the
first time laid aside their white baptismal robes. St. Augustine mentions this
custom in a sermon for the day, and it is also alluded to in the Eastertide
Vesper hymn, "Ad regias Agni dapes" (or, in its older form, "Ad cœnam Agni
providi"), written by an ancient imitator of St. Ambrose. Low Sunday is also
called by some liturgical writers Pascha clausum, signifying the close of the
Easter Octave, and "Quasimodo Sunday", from the Introit at Mass — "Quasi modo
geniti infantes, rationabile, sine dolo lac concupiscite", — which words are
used by the Church with special reference to the newly baptized neophytes, as
well as in general allusion to man's renovation through the Resurrection. The
latter name is still common in parts of France and Germany.


SOURCES

DURAND, Rationale Divini Officii (Venice, 1568); MARTÈNE, De Antiguis Monachorum
Ritibus (Lyons. 1790); GUÉRANGER, L'Année liturgique, tr. SHEPHERD, The
Liturgical Year (Dublin, 1867); LEROSEY, Histoire et symbolisme de la Liturgie
(Paris, 1889); BATIFFOL, Histoire du Bréviaire Romaine (Paris, 1893).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Alston, G.C. (1910). Low Sunday. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09400a.htm

MLA citation. Alston, George Cyprian. "Low Sunday." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09400a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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