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Summary
- Eight short prayers cover the first anniversary, thanks for her life, her soul, the grave, lasting grief, things left unsaid, a family gathering and a mother who died many years ago.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (“Eternal rest,” “For deceased Parents” and the anniversary collect), Hapgood’s 1906 Orthodox service book and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
- Orthodox Christians hold memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days after a death and on the anniversary, with a dish of boiled wheat and honey and a lighted candle.
- Catholics can have a Mass offered on the anniversary; the practice of praying for the dead draws partly on 2 Maccabees 12:46, which Protestants do not count as Scripture.
- Paul told the Thessalonians not to sorrow “as others which have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13).
- Crisis lines are given for the US (988), the UK and Ireland (Samaritans 116 123) and Russia (8 800 2000 122).
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 34:18; Proverbs 31:28; Isaiah 66:13; Matthew 5:4; John 11:25; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14; Revelation 21:4). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version (2 Maccabees 12:46). Project Gutenberg eBook no. 1581. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1581
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. The Burial of the Dead, p. 541; Various Prayers for the Dead, “For deceased Parents,” p. 593; Masses for the Dead, “On the Anniversary,” p. 778. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Order for the Burial of the Dead, p. 370; The Requiem Office for the Dead, p. 439; Appendix B, XII, pp. 612–613. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Holy Communion, Prayer for the Church, p. 74; At the Burial of the Dead, The Collect, p. 268. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- “Commemoration Lists.” Orthodox America, vol. 6, issue 58. Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. https://www.roca.org/oa/volume-vi/issue-58/commemoration-lists/
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