How to spend memorial day Bashny.Net

According to Orthodox tradition, a commemoration day Radonitsa (or, as they are popularly called, Grabke) should be celebrated on the ninth day after Easter, on Tuesday. This year it falls on April 27. The custom to remember the dead next weekend after Easter appeared only in Soviet times, when on a weekday people would not let go from work. A week after Easter actually marks Antipascha, fomino Sunday, when the Church recalls the apparitions of the risen Christ to the apostles.

A day of rejoicing a day of remembrance of the dead is the fact that there is no God of the dead, the souls of all alive and in this day of Easter joy is shared and the living and the dead. Therefore, it is not a day of sorrow, but rather joy of the risen Christ.

In our day to memorial day the people usually go to the cemetery for deceased relatives are there, to drink, to put on the grave a shot. All this, of course, the Church does not encourage. Right to spend the day as follows: Tuesday of the second week in all the churches serve the divine funeral Liturgy. After the Liturgy, serve the great memorial service in which people mention their deceased relatives. After this, the priest can be invited to the cemetery, where he will perform the rite of funeral service directly to the grave. Arriving at the cemetery to welcome the dead with the words: "Christ is Risen!". Then you can go home and circle of relatives to a memorial meal, but, yet again, not to drink and not to overeat, not to make this a feast.

In Kiev because of the large number of cemeteries memorial day actually turns into memorial week, because one set his day of remembrance of the dead, so that people have time to see and remember all the relatives buried in different places. Therefore, the rite of the funeral service at the grave can be made in these established by the end of the day, but Tuesday of the second week after Easter for all Orthodox remains the top total memorial day, a day of rejoicing.

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