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A memorial service (Greek: μνημόσυνον, mnemósynon, "memorial"; [1] Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil" (etymologically "all-nighter"); [2] [3] Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from Greek παράστασις, parástasis) [4] is a liturgical solemn service for the repose of the departed in the Eastern ...
Vigil, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (14th century) A Knight's Vigil by John Pettie A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning 'wakefulness' (Greek: pannychis, [1] παννυχίς or agrypnia [2] ἀγρυπνία), [3] is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching, or an observance.
A candlelight vigil or candlelit vigil or candlelight service is an assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to pray, show support for a specific cause, or remember the dead, in which case, the event is often called a candlelight memorial. [1] Such events may be held to protest the suffering of some marginalized group of ...
The body of a deceased priest or bishop is prepared by the clergy, and is anointed with oil. He is then clothed in his full Eucharistic vestments (however, if he was a hieromonk he will usually be clothed in his monastic habit and be vested only in his epitrachelion [stole] and epimanikia [cuffs]).
A candlelight vigil and memoriam service Thursday night will honor the memory of Kansas City homicide victims and support their grieving families. ‘We will never accept this violence.’
The normal memorial service is a greatly abbreviated form of Matins, but the Requiem contains all of the psalms, readings, and hymns normally found in the All-Night Vigil (which combines the Canonical Hours of Vespers, Matins and First Hour), providing a complete set of propers for the departed. The full requiem will last around three-and-a ...
Grizzly No. 399 and her ever-growing brood was a beloved favorite of tourists visiting Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park for nearly 30 years before her untimely death on Highway 29/28 on Oct. 22.
Shemira (Hebrew: שמירה, lit. "watching" or "guarding") refers to the Jewish religious ritual of watching over the body of a deceased person from the time of death until burial. A male guardian is called a shomer (שומר ), and a female guardian is a shomeret (שומרת ). Shomrim (plural, שומרים ) are people who perform ...