Thomas Sunday

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Thomas Sunday is the first Sunday after Easter in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, commemorating the Apostle Thomas’s encounter with the risen Christ.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thomas Sunday canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf feast day
liturgical observance
moveable feast
alsoKnownAs Antipascha
New Sunday
associatedWith Eastern Catholic Churches
surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine Rite

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church
calendarBasis Julian calendar in many Orthodox Churches
Revised Julian or Gregorian calendar in some Orthodox Churches
celebratedBy Byzantine Rite
surface form: Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholics

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Orthodox Christians
centralFigureInGospelReading Apostle Thomas
Jesus Christ
surface form: risen Jesus Christ
chronologicallyRelatedTo Bright Week
commemorates Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas’s encounter with the risen Christ
commemoratesEventDescribedIn Gospel of John
surface form: Gospel of John 20:19–31
emphasizesDoctrine blessedness of those who believe without seeing
bodily resurrection of Christ
follows Easter
surface form: Easter Sunday

Easter
surface form: Pascha
hasKontakionTheme assurance of faith given to Thomas
hasLanguageVariantName Church Slavonic
surface form: Church Slavonic: Недѣля Антипасхи

Greek: Κυριακή του Θωμά
Russian: Антипасха, Фомина неделя
hasName Antipascha
New Sunday
Second Sunday of Easter
surface form: Second Sunday of Pascha

St. Thomas Sunday
St. Thomas Sunday
surface form: Sunday of St. Thomas

Thomas Sunday
hasPrimaryGospelReading John 20:19–31
hasTroparionTheme Christ’s resurrection and peace to the disciples
isAfter Joyous Saturday
surface form: Bright Saturday
isBefore Third Sunday of Easter
surface form: Third Sunday of Pascha
keyScripturalPhrase “My Lord and my God” (John 20:28)
liturgicalColor gold
white
liturgicalSeason Paschal season
marks end of Bright Week in popular usage
occursOn first Sunday after Easter
partOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
surface form: Byzantine Rite liturgical calendar

Byzantine liturgical calendar
surface form: Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
positionInPaschalCycle second Sunday of Pascha
theme faith
overcoming doubt
resurrection of Christ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pentecostarion usedForFeast Thomas Sunday
Book of Pentecost usedForFeast Thomas Sunday
Second Sunday of Easter alsoKnownAs Thomas Sunday