Antipascha

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Antipascha is the Eastern Orthodox Christian feast celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, commemorating the Apostle Thomas’s encounter with the risen Christ.

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Label Occurrences
Antipascha canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian liturgical feast
Eastern Orthodox feast
associatedFigure Apostle Thomas
Jesus Christ
calendarBasis moveable feast
celebratedWith Divine Liturgy
special hymns from the Pentecostarion
commemorates Apostle Thomas
Apostle Thomas’s encounter with the risen Christ
commemoratesEventDescribedIn Gospel of John 20:19–31
determinedBy date of Pascha
etymology from Greek ‘anti’ (in place of, corresponding to) and ‘Pascha’ (Easter)
follows Easter Sunday
linked to: Easter Day

Pascha
linked to: Feast of Pascha
hasAlternativeName St. Thomas Sunday
Sunday of St. Thomas
linked to: St. Thomas Sunday

Thomas Sunday
keyExclamation My Lord and my God
liturgicalColor bright
liturgicalTradition Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine rite
Eastern Orthodox Church
occursOn first Sunday after Easter
first Sunday after Pascha
partOfSeason Paschal season
linked to: Paschal cycle

Pentecostarion period
theologicalTheme confession of Christ’s divinity
faith in the Resurrection of Christ
overcoming doubt
usedInLanguage Church Slavonic
Greek

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

Thomas Sunday hasName Antipascha
Thomas Sunday alsoKnownAs Antipascha
St. Thomas Sunday alsoKnownAs Antipascha
New Sunday hasAlternativeName Antipascha