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Easter Week
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In the Anglican and other Latin-rite churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. In Eastern Orthodoxy, this week is known as Bright Week. The term is often inaccurately used to mean the week before Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular usage of Easter Saturday to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter.
While the usage is not widespread, the days of Easter Week are known as Easter Sunday (Easter Day, the beginning of the Easter season), Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, Easter Wednesday, Easter Thursday, Easter Friday, and Easter Saturday. In former years, Easter, as the most important celebration in Christianity (as it marks the miraculous Resurrection of Jesus), was observed for a week, and it still is celebrated in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism. However, owing to modern working patterns, many Easter celebrations now occur on Easter Sunday and possibly Easter Monday only.