Very often people come to an Orthodox church, not only to participate in the service, but also to order certain prayer services for their loved ones. Sorokoust is one of the most popular types of church remembrance of people.
In everyday life, one often hears advice that for family well-being, help in illnesses, and seeing off on the last journey, you need to order a magpie in an Orthodox church. However, not everyone understands what it is. The word itself is already capable of raising a question. In fact, everything is very simple. The 40th commemoration is called the church commemoration of people at the proskomedia (before the beginning of the divine liturgy). You can order a magpie for both the living and the memory of the departed.
This type of church prayer takes its name from the fact that the very remembrance of people can continue during the forty divine liturgies. In addition, magpie can be ordered for six months, a year, and in some monasteries and for eternal commemoration.
Magpie about the dead is in great demand. In addition to the funeral service and requiem for a deceased person, another prayer of the Church for them is especially useful. It was in the fortieth century that the clergy repeatedly remembers the name of the deceased and asks God for the forgiveness of sins to the latter.
The Orthodox Church also announces to people that this remembrance will also be useful to living people in need of various assistance. In serious illnesses, family troubles and other needs, the Church’s prayer for a person takes on even greater significance.
It turns out that ordering the magpie is necessary so that the clergy for a long time make commemoration of the people. This shows the connection between the Church of the earthly and heavenly.
