Easter: April 9th: Thursday within the Octave of Easter

By Catholic Culture, April 9, 2026

Thursday within the Octave of Easter: O God, who have united the many nations in confessing your name, grant that those reborn in the font of Baptism may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:

This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.

“Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you!'” The Gospel tells of an appearance of Jesus in the Cenacle on the very day of His resurrection. The newly baptized (neophytes) and all Christians with them, must live like the risen Christ, none but a heavenly life and by their manner of living proclaim their faith in Christ.

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The Octave of Easter
Every day in this Octave is another Easter. “The first eight days of the Easter season make up the octave of Easter and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord” (GNLYC, 24). Read about The Liturgy of Easter Sunday and the Octave of Easter.The Mass liturgy during the Octave has these characteristics:

• Includes an option to sing or read the Easter Sequence, Victimae Paschali.
• The Gospel verse from Ps 118:24, “This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it” is repeated each day.
• In the Preface I of Easter the choice is “on this day” and if the Roman Canon is used, proper forms of the Communicantes (In communion with those) and Hanc igitur (Therefore Lord, we pray) are said.
• For the dismissal of the people, there is sung or said: “Go forth, the Mass is ended, alleluia, alleluia.” Or: “Go in peace, alleluia, alleluia.” The people respond: “Thanks be to God, alleluia, alleluia.”

Each day of the Octave of Easter has a traditional Station Church.

Meditation for Friday within the Octave of Easter: Discovering Christ in the Events of our Life
The Apostles have left Jerusalem for Galilee as the Lord had told them to. They are there beside the lake: at the same place or at one similar to the one where Jesus found them and invited them to follow him. Now they have gone back to the old occupations they had when the Lord first called them. Jesus finds them again immersed in their work. And He revealed himself in this way. Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. There are seven of them out fishing. Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing’. They said to him, ‘we will go with you’. They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing.
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