Easter Monday marks the beginning of the Bright Week, in which the Church glorifies the Holy Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This is a time when the Resurrection of Jesus Christ brings enlightenment and hope of eternal life to all. Each of these seven days is dedicated to different saints.

The Bright Week ends with the second passage on Sunday. It is also called Thomas’s Sunday, because on that day the gospel reads about the appearance of Christ to his disciples, among which was also the apostle Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus who did not believe in Christ’s Resurrection.