PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN THE CULT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN THE CULT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

Summary/Abstract: The memorial services that are made for the dead represent an important part of the Orthodox divinepublic cult, the divine cult representing the center and the specific and fundamental expression of thereligious life, the Orthodox Church’s life itself. We must, nevertheless, stress that between the teachingsof faith and the cult of the Church there is an indissoluble connection. The prayers for the dead are basedon the Christian faith that soul continues to exist after death, at which adds the teaching about the closeconnection or love communion between the live and the dead. The memorial services for the deadrepresent an act of cult, in the same time being a confession through which is asserted our belief in theimmortality of the soul, in our resurrection, in the existence of the eternal life and in the God’s kingdom,being in the same time the expression of love which makes possible the communion between the live andthe dead as members of the Church..

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