How to spend Parental Saturday on March 25th to honor the memory of departed relatives and fill the heart with peace of mind

Parent Saturday is coming on March 25th! This means that it is time to refresh your memory, what you can do on this day, and what is better to abandon. An important event is associated with the memory of deceased relatives, so it is so important to follow all the rules and recommendations. The most important thing you will learn later in the article.



Saturday, March 25, is called Parental Saturday primarily because on this day it is customary to commemorate parents who have already gone to heaven. However, this does not mean that you can not honor the memory of other deceased relatives. You can also put a candle in the temple for the rest of the people dear to your heart who have gone to rest.

Every year, memorial Saturdays are shifted in days, as they directly depend on the date of Easter celebration. So, ahead of us are Troitskaya (3 June), Dimitrievskaya (4 November) and Mikhailovsky Parental Saturday (18 November).



In addition, it is customary to remember the dead on Radonitsa. This is the day of the first church-wide commemoration of the deceased in the folk tradition of the Eastern Slavs after Easter. This year the event falls on April 25.

On the eve of parental Saturday, on Friday evening, it is customary to hold in churches. special liturgies. Then there is a memorial service. At this time, parishioners should only pray for those who are no longer in our world.



You can pray for people you didn’t know. For example, clergymen remember those who were taken away by military conflicts, pandemics and natural disasters. If all your relatives and friends are alive, you can light a candle in memory of the victims of the war in Ukraine or the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

In the people there is an opinion that Parental Saturdays are needed in order to go to the churchyard and remove the places of eternal rest of loved ones. This is a rather resource-consuming event, since usually marble slabs overgrown with weeds and do not look very neat.



However, in the circle of clergy, this is skeptical. It is better to go to the temple on this day and pray for the peace of soul of a native person. This is the main purpose of Parent Saturday. And you can go to the cemetery on any other day - this is quite normal. If you do not know what prayer to read, read the texts on the link.

People don’t usually go to church empty-handed. You can take bread, cookies and other sweets with you. Also take sugar, butter and ready-made dishes, such as kutya. All these products are placed on a special memorial table - the eve. It is usually located next to a tetrapod - a candlestick, on which candles are placed, lit in memory of the dead.



On the eve can not put meat dishes, as well as hot drinks. As an exception, you can buy kagor, which is usually sold in church shops. This ritual performs two functions at once: you donate food to the needy and thus honor the memory of the dead.

This day will not be superfluous to help a poor person who needs clothes, shoes or just money. This can be done without reference to the church. You can also feed a homeless animal. But I advise you to do this any day, not just on Parent Saturday.

What not to do on March 25, 2023 Remember that the dead can not be remembered by drinking alcohol. It's considered a sin. In addition, the church condemns loud feasts during parental Saturdays. If your birthday is March 25, move the celebration to Sunday.



If you can’t go to church, you can pray at home. But it is very important to remember the names of all the deceased, whose memory you want to honor. It is best to write down names on a piece of paper and say them aloud while praying.

Spend the approaching parental Saturday wisely. May God take care of you and your family.