The Sunday after Easter — more accurately, the second Sunday of Easter — was once called White Sunday, “because those who had been baptized at Easter wore their white robes all week as a sign of their new life” (Phillip H. Pfatteicher, Commentary on the Lutheran Book of Worship, 291). It’s also been called Low Sunday, possibly because “the spirit of the Sunday is ‘low’ compared to the high festivity of Easter Day” (Pfatteicher, Journey into the Heart of God: Living the Liturgical Year, 245). For many churches, including ours, that’s certainly the appropriate description — “low” — of typical attendance at worship on that day.

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