The Christian church is very special about the dead. After all, this is the essence of the Christian faith - to die and resurrect with Christ. For this, Christians fast, pray, watch at night, and observe the Sacraments. Therefore, prayers for the departed are so diverse and so often repeated during the Liturgy and special services, for example, Memorial services.
You will need
- - sheets of paper
- - pencil or pen
- - a small amount of money for a donation to the temple
Instruction manual
1
In the evening before the Liturgy, sit down and remember all the dead that you or people close to you knew. At the same time, remember that in Christianity there is the concept of "already baptized." That is, the deceased, about whom you doubt whether they are baptized or not, must be inscribed. If you know for sure that the deceased person was not baptized, then you cannot remember him at the Liturgy. He as well as suicides, Gentiles, notorious blasphemers can be remembered only at home prayer and then with caution.
2
Write the deceased in the sheets of ten names each in the genitive case. This must be done in order to facilitate reading to the priest when he recites the commemoration. Moreover, if a person had two names, secular and given at baptism, then the latter must be entered in the note. For example, the names of Rosa, Vladilen, Milan do not exist in the calendar, the Church does not know saints with such names. The same names as Oksana, Svetlana, Egor, Vadim and similar derivatives should be written respectively as Ksenia, Photinia, George, Vladimir and so on.
3
Get up early in the morning and go to the service, taking with you the prepared leaflets with the names. Give notes there to the priest or deacon with a request to remember the deceased at Proskomidia.
4
Forgive reverently the entire service, praying with all believers and do not leave until the priest says goodbye to the parishioners.
note
At the very beginning of the Liturgy, when the clergy are standing behind the closed gates of the altar, they perform a special ritual. In it, they recall the cross suffering of Christ, using for this purpose prosphora as a symbol of the Body of Christ, and wine as Blood. The priest takes out particles from the prosphora for Christ Himself, for the Mother of God, for Angels, living and dead Christians. This rite is called the Proskomidia. And it is the most important for the deceased, since the part of the prosphora that was taken out for them becomes a part of Honest Gifts. In the future, the Liturgy again and again commemorates the deceased. Parishioners most often pay attention to the second commemoration, when a priest reads a prayer in front of the altar during a special ectiny. But this is just a prayer, albeit a church one. You can also file a note with the names of the deacon helping the priest. But nevertheless, the commemoration at Proskomedia cannot be replaced with anything.
Useful advice
1. Submit notes with names as early as possible in order to catch the Proskomid.
2. If a person has died recently, be sure to submit notes on the third, ninth and fortieth day after death. This makes its own sense, because the soul of man these days is undergoing special disturbing trials.
3. Remember the departed on Parent's Saturdays and every day in the evening prayers before bedtime. For the dead, there is nothing more important than prayers.
