Revealed to Venerable Macarios of Alexandria.
Ven.
Macarios of Alexandria, through prayers obtained an explanation of a
thought occupying his mind – why is the commemoration of the dead
carried out on the 3rd, the 9th and the 40th day after their death?:
When
on the third day after death there is an offering in the church, then
the soul of the deceased receives from its guardian angel relief in the
sorrows that it feels from its separation from the body. For in the
course of two days it is allowed to wander around the house where its
body was laid, to go visit those places where it was during its
lifetime, and on the third day it rises to worship God. Then in the
course of 6 days the soul is shown the abode of the Saints and the
beauty of Paradise. If the soul is guilty of sins, then at the sight of
the saints' pleasures, it mourns and reproaches itself for its sins.
After these 6 days, on the 9th day it rises again to worship God. After
the second worship it is shown the place of torment, in which the souls
of sinners weep incessantly. In those places the soul is flown for 30
days in tremor, lest it itself suffer that same fate. On the 40th day
the soul ascends again to worship God, and then the Judge – by its deeds
– determines a place for it.
Публикувано от Владимир Джамбов Vladimir Djambov / "the mouth that belieth, slayeth the soul"
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