Easter Sunday
What it commemorates
Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Place in the liturgical year
It is the principal feast of the liturgical year; the dates of the Ascension, Pentecost and the other movable feasts depend on it.
In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar
In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: Dominica Resurrectionis.
Modern Roman Calendar
The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a celebration with precedence over solemnities; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.