CV NEWS FEED // On the second day of the Octave of Easter, the Catholic Church observes Easter Monday, also known as “Day of the Angel” in continued celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Octave of Easter is an eight-day celebration of Christ’s victory over death, beginning on Easter and ending the following Sunday, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops explains.
The Gospel reading for Easter Monday is from the book of Matthew. It recounts when Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James encountered the risen Lord: “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce the news to his disciples. And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.’”
Easter Monday is also regarded as the “Day of the Angel,” as Italian publication the Daily Compass states. St. John Paul II said in his April 1, 1991, Regina Coeli that delivering the good news of the Lord’s resurrection required a “superior being.”
“For the first uttering of the words ‘He is risen’, the Resurrection, a human subject was not enough, human words were not adequate,” he said, according to the Daily Compass. “It took a superior being, because for the human being this truth and the words that communicate the truth, ‘He is risen’, this truth itself is so shocking, so incredible, that perhaps no man would have dared pronounce it.”
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