Everlasting memory. Prayers for the deceased: canons, panachids, kafism 17th, lithium

God is all alive, the scripture tells us, for “God is not the God of the dead, but the living” (Matthew 22, 31-32). Everyone is alive - but not all the deceased are in their souls in paradise abode. Many, due to their indefiniteity and sinfulness during life, undergo deserved spiritual sorrows and after death, and many need our help and wait for it. How to facilitate the afterlife fate of the deceased, provide them with effective assistance. First of all, in addition to our good memory, such are church prayers: impoveris, magpies, panachids and lithium committed on graves, as well as home prayers, readings of psalter and the holy gospel. Finally, pure help in facilitating the fate of the deceased is the alms made in commemoration of their souls.

The real collection includes all the most common prayers that are traditionally read by Christians in the commemoration of the deceased, as well as the explanation and significance of the 3rd, 9th and 40th day after the death of the deceased.