The Fifth Sunday of Easter is the Sunday four weeks after the

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celebration of

Easter Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the '' Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samue ...

. In

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, this day is also known as the Fourth Sunday after Easter or Cantate Sunday.

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also calls this day the "Fifth Sunday," but typically using an Eastern synonym for Easter; for example, Fifth Sunday of Holy Pascha (as in the

Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. The canonical hours a ...

) or Fifth Sunday of the Resurrection (as in the West Syriac and

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s). In the Byzantine Rite, this day is also known as the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman.

Western Christianity

The name "Fifth Sunday of Easter" is used among

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, and other

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churches. It is the name given to this day in the ''

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'' (used in the

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of the

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) and in the ''

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'' (widely used among

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s). Tridentine editions of the ''Roman Missal'' called this day the ''Fourth Sunday after Easter'', as do traditional versions of the

Book of Common Prayer The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign ...

. This day is also known as ''Cantate Sunday'' due to the

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"Cantáte Dómino" (Sing to the Lord) of the

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assigned to this day in the

. The full text of the introit in its original

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is: "Cantáte Dómino cánticum novum, allelúia: quia mirabília fecit Dóminus, allelúia: ante conspéctum géntium revelávit iustítiam suam, allelúia, allelúia, allelúia. Salvávit sibi déxtera eius: et bráchium sanctum eius." This introit is based on (which is now more commonly called

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in accord with the Hebrew numbering used in modern Bibles). For a brief period of time (1870–1911), this day was also known as the ''Octave Day of the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church'' in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. This octave day was the follow-up to the original feast on the previous Sunday.

Eastern Christianity

In the Byzantine Rite, this day is called the ''Fifth Sunday of Holy Pascha'', and is also called the ''Sunday of the

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'' due to the Gospel passage () read on this day.

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{{Liturgical year of the Catholic Church Christian Sunday observances Eastertide

Western Christianity

Eastern Christianity

See also

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