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Pentecost Monday Mass in Chartres Cathedral, 2018
An “octave” is an eight-day period in which the Church not content to remember some great mystery only on a single day extends her joyful celebration for the period of a full week, with a culminating remembrance on the eighth or octave day.
The concept of the eighth day is important in Christian theology. The eighth, being one more beyond the seven-day week that represents the order of creation, symbolizes the eternal life reached after passing through this earthly life. In the Jewish reckoning, in which the Sabbath is the seventh day, Sunday the day of Our Lord’s resurrection from the dead can be seen as both the