Bright Week or Renewal Week is the name used by the Eastern Orthodox Church for the period of seven days beginning on Pascha (Easter) and continuing up to (but not including) the following Sunday, which is known as Thomas Sunday or Low Sunday, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the official website of the Moldovan Metropolitan Church, the entire week following Pascha is to be set aside by Orthodox Christians for the celebration of the Resurrection. During all of Bright Week, the Holy Doors on the Iconostasis are kept open—the only time of the year when this occurs. The open doors represent the stone rolled away from the Tomb of Christ, and the Epitaphios, representing the burial clothes, is visible through them on the Holy Table (altar). This feast includes the Christian custom of greeting one another by saying, “Christ is risen; he is risen indeed!” “During the Bright Week, fasting is banned and the faithful are urged to recover physical strength after the eight-week Lent,” it is said on the Church’s website. On Bright Friday, a service in honor of the Theotokos (Mother of God) as the "Life-giving Spring" is joined to the Paschal service. In some places, they bless the water at churches or wells and springs, while in other places the priests bless the houses of the faithful with holy water. Bright Week begins the liturgical season known as the Pentecostarion, the period of fifty days which begins on Pascha and continues to Pentecost and its afterfeast. The date of Pascha determines several liturgical cycles as well as the Epistle and Gospel readings for the subsequent year.