Parental Saturdays in 2019 - days of special remembrance of the departed. At this time in Orthodox churches make a special commemoration of departed Christians, and believers visit the graves of their relatives who have left this world in cemeteries. There are seven parental Saturdays on the church calendar throughout the year.

Special days of commemoration of the departed began to be called parental Saturdays because they first of all remembered their deceased parents, and then other deceased relatives and other close people. According to another version, the name was formed because it was once customary to call the deceased parents, that is, "departed to the fathers."

Ecumenical parenting Saturdays

If we are talking about the universal parental Sabbath, it is implied that all baptized Christians are remembered. Seven days before the beginning of Great Lent, Meat-Passing Ecumenical Saturday is celebrated. Meat Saturday is called because it falls on the week of the same name, which is also called the Small Carnival. This is the first parental Saturday in March.

On the eve of the feast of Pentecost, Trinity is celebrated Ecumenical Saturday ... On Trinity Saturday, all baptized Christians are also commemorated in prayers. On these days, special ecumenical memorial services are performed. The panikhida "Commemoration of all the departed Orthodox Christians, our father and our brethren," is being served.

Five other parental Saturdays

Radonitsa or Radunitsa falls on Tuesday after Fomin's week, that is, the second week after Bright Christ's Resurrection... The main theme of this day is the victory of the risen Christ over death. On this day, according to tradition, believers visit the cemetery and praise the resurrected Son of God at the graves of their dead relatives.

On May 9, the day of victory in the Great Patriotic War, a memorial service is held in churches for the multitudes of soldiers who gave their lives to save the Motherland. Many families have lost someone close to them in this terrible and prolonged war. Therefore, on this day they commemorate as all the dead soldiers, thanks to the feat of which the a great victory, and their loved ones who died during the war.

Demetrius' parental Saturday is also associated with hostilities, only taking place several centuries earlier. We are talking about the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. Initially, soldiers who died during a large-scale battle were commemorated on this day.

Later, this day was transformed into the day of remembrance of all the dead, as indicated in the Novgorod chronicle of the 15th century. It is known that in 1903 Emperor Nicholas II issued a decree ordering to perform a requiem in memory of the soldiers who died for the Motherland "For the faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland, who laid their belly on the battlefield."

In 2019, Orthodox parental Saturdays are celebrated in the following order:

• March 16 - meat Saturday
• March 23 - Saturday of the 2nd week of Great Lent
• March 30 - Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent
• April 6 - Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent
• May 7, Tuesday - Radonitsa, Church-wide commemoration of the dead
• May 9 - Commemoration of the departed warriors
• May 26 - Saturday Trinity
• November 3 - Saturday Dimitrievskaya

Features of parenting Saturdays

On the days of universal parental Saturdays, funeral services are performed, funeral services, during which believers read prayers for their dead relatives, ask God for forgiveness of sins for them. According to the statute, on parental Saturdays, the second, third and fourth during Great Lent, funeral commemorations are not performed, that is: memorial litanies, litias, memorial services, commemoration of the 3rd, 9th and 40th days after death, magpie. These days are specially set aside so that believers can pay tribute to the memory of loved ones.

On Friday evening, on the eve of parental Saturday, a great panikhida (parastas) is served in the temples. For the funeral Divine Liturgy, you can give notes with the names of your deceased relatives. On this day, according to an ancient tradition, it is customary to bring lenten products and Cahors to the temple for the celebration of the Liturgy. Wine and lean foods brought to the temple on Friday are called “on the eve”.

In the old days, it was customary for believing parishioners to bring lenten dishes for the common table in the temple, where they could commemorate dear deceased relatives. This tradition has survived, only on a smaller scale.

Lean foods and Cahors are left on a special table in the temple. This food is used for the needs of the temple and for transmission to poor people who are under the care of a particular parish.

Believers often have a choice - to visit the grave of a relative on parental Saturday or to come to church for services. Priests are more inclined to believe that sincere prayer, which can be performed during a special service, is much more important for the souls of your loved ones. Therefore, it is recommended to give preference to visiting the temple.

You can read the prayer for the departed: "Rest, Lord, the souls of the departed, Thy servant: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven."

How to spend a day of remembrance of the dead

Before going to the temple, write on a piece of paper the names of all deceased relatives and other close people whom you would like to mention during the prayer. Earlier in Christian families there was a very important tradition - from generation to generation to write down the names of all relatives who have passed away. This is how family commemorations were formed, which were used during the reading of the funeral prayers.

On the days of special commemoration of the departed, it is very important to think about what death is, perhaps, to rethink your own life and relationships with loved ones, to try to reconcile in all controversial issues.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh speaks very accurately and succinctly about the question of the relationship between life and death. For fifteen years he worked as a military doctor, and after forty-six years he was a priest. Here is one of his quotes: “Russians believe in life, they go into life. And this is one of the things that every priest and every person must repeat to himself and to others: we must not prepare for death, we must prepare for eternal life. "

Prayer of Children for Deceased Parents

Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are the guardian of the orphans, the grieving refuge and the crying comforter. I come running to you, sir, sighing and crying, and I pray to You: hear my prayer and do not turn your face away from the sighs of my heart and from the tears of my eyes. I pray to Thee, merciful Lord, satisfy my grief about separation from my parent who gave birth and raised (gave birth and raised) me (my matter), (name) (or: with my parents who gave birth and raised me, their names) - his soul ( or: her, or: them), as if she departed (or: who departed) to You with true faith in You and with firm hope in Your philanthropy and mercy, accept into Your Kingdom of Heaven. I bow before Your holy will, they will also take away (or: taken away, or: taken away) from me, and I ask You, do not take away from him (or: from her, or: from them) Your mercy and mercy. We, Lord, as if You are the Judge of this world, punish the sins and wickedness of fathers in children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even up to the third and fourth kind: but also favor the fathers for the prayers and virtues of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. With contrition and tenderness of my heart, I pray to Thee, merciful Judge, do not punish the deceased unforgettable (deceased unforgettable) with eternal punishment for my servant (Thy servant), my parent (my mother) (name), but release him (her) all his transgressions ( her) voluntary and involuntary, in word and deed, knowledge and ignorance, created by him (her) in his (her) life here on earth, and by Thy mercy and philanthropy, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Theotokos and all saints, have mercy on him (s) and eternal Deliver the torment. You, merciful Father of fathers and children! Grant me, all the days of my life, until my last breath, not to cease to remember my deceased parent (my deceased mother) in my prayers, and beg Thee, the righteous Judge, and give him (s) in a brighter place, in a cool place. and in a place of peace, with all the saints, all sickness, sorrow and sighing are by no means fled. Merciful Lord! Accept this day for Thy servant (Thy) (name) this warm prayer and give him (her) in Thy reward for the labors and care of my upbringing in faith and Christian piety, as if he taught (taught) me first of all to lead Thee, his Lord, to to pray to Thee with reverence, the One to trust in Thee in troubles, sorrows and diseases, and to keep Thy commandments; for his (her) welfare for my spiritual prosperity, for the warmth that he (she) brings for me before You and for all the gifts they (her) asked me from You, give him (her) Your mercy. With your heavenly blessings and joys in your eternal Kingdom. Thou art the God of mercies and generosity and love for mankind, Thou art the peace and joy of Thy faithful servants, and We glorify Thee with the Father and the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.

P.S. Death is an inevitability that each of us will face in due time. And the position of a person both in earthly life and after death depends on the correct attitude to this issue. Metropolitan Anthony reminds us that it is very important not to commit such a widespread sin as indifference or with ostentatious concern, insincere attitude towards a dying relative.

On the days of commemoration of the dead, you will mentally replay these moments over and over again: when you could spend a few more minutes with a loved one, and not refer to employment and daily important matters, you could give him more heartfelt warmth, but did not.

These days are important both for the deceased, whom living relatives can help with their sincere prayers, and for the living themselves, who, preserving the memory of the family, can grow spiritually and care not only about earthly, but also about eternal life.

"Today is parental!" is a phrase that we hear several times a year. Everyone is alive with God, and the memory and prayer for our departed relatives and friends is an important part of the Christian faith. We will tell you about what parental Saturdays are, about church and folk traditions of days of special commemoration of the dead, about how to pray for the dead and whether it is necessary to go to the cemetery on parental Saturdays.

What is parental Saturday

Parental Saturdays (and there are several of them in the church calendar) are days of special commemoration of the departed. On these days, a special commemoration of dead Orthodox Christians is performed in Orthodox churches. In addition, by tradition, believers visit the graves in cemeteries.

The name "parental" most likely comes from the tradition of calling the deceased "parents", that is, those who have passed on to their fathers. Another version - “parental” Saturdays began to be called, because Christians prayerfully commemorated, first of all, their deceased parents.

Among other parental Saturdays (and there are seven of them in a year), Ecumenical Saturdays are distinguished, on which the Orthodox Church prayerfully commemorates all baptized Christians in general. There are two such Saturdays: Meat (a week before Lent) and Trinity (on the eve of Pentecost). The rest of the Saturday parents are not universal and are set aside specifically for private commemoration of people dear to our hearts.

How many parental Saturdays in the year

The calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church has seven days of special commemoration of the departed. All but one (May 9 - Commemoration of the departed soldiers) have a rolling date.

Meat Saturday (Universal Parent Saturday)

Saturday of the 2nd week of Great Lent

Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent

Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent

Radonitsa

Saturday Trinity

Saturday Dimitrievskaya

Parental Saturdays in 2014

Parental Saturdays in 2015

What are Ecumenical Parenting Saturdays

Among other parental Saturdays (and there are seven of them in a year), Ecumenical Saturdays are distinguished, on which the Orthodox Church prayerfully commemorates all baptized Christians in general. There are two such Saturdays: Meat (a week before Lent) and Trinity (on the eve of Pentecost). On these two days, special services are performed - ecumenical memorial services.

What's inSelenian memorial services

On parental Saturdays, the Orthodox Church celebrates universal or parental funerals. Christians call the funeral service by the word "requiem", at which believers pray for the repose of the dead, ask the Lord for mercy and forgiveness of sins for them.

What is a memorial service

Memorial service translated from Greek means " all-night vigil ". it a funeral service, at which believers pray for the repose of the dead, ask the Lord for mercy and forgiveness of sins for them.

Ecumenical (meat-eating) parental Saturday

Meat Saturday (Universal Parental Saturday) is Saturday one week before the start of Lent. It is called Meat Plant because it falls on the Meat Week (the week before Shrovetide). It is also called Small Carnival.

On this day, Orthodox Christians commemorate all the baptized departed from Adam to the present day. An ecumenical memorial service is served in the churches - "Commemoration of all of the departed Orthodox Christians from the age, our father and our brethren."

Trinity parental Saturday

Trinity is the second ecumenical parental Saturday (after Meat-Passing), on which the Orthodox Church prayerfully commemorates all baptized Christians in general. It falls on the Saturday preceding the feast of Trinity, or Pentecost. On this day, believers come to churches for a special ecumenical memorial service - "Commemoration performed by all of the departed Orthodox Christians from the age, father and our brethren."

Parental Saturdays of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of Great Lent

During Great Lent, according to the Charter, memorials are not performed (memorial litanies, litias, memorial services, commemorations of the 3rd, 9th and 40th days after death, magpie), so the Church has set aside three special days when you can prayerfully remember the departed. These are Saturdays of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of fasting.

Radonitsa

Radonitsa, or Radunitsa, is one of the days of special commemoration of the departed, which falls on the Tuesday after Fomin's week (the second week after Easter). On Fomino Sunday, Christians remember how after the resurrected Jesus Christ descended into hell and conquered death, and Radonitsa, who is directly connected with this day, also tells us about the victory over death.

According to tradition, the Orthodox go to Radonitsa to the cemetery, and there, at the graves of their relatives and friends, they glorify the Risen Christ. Radonitsa, in fact, is called so precisely by the word "joy", the joyful news of the Resurrection of Christ

Commemoration of the Departed Warriors - May 9

Commemoration of the departed warriors is the only day of special commemoration of the departed in the year, which has a fixed date. This is May 9, the day of victory in the Great Patriotic War. On this day, after the Liturgy, a panikhida is served in churches for the soldiers who gave their lives for their Motherland.

Dimitrievskaya parental Saturday

Demetrius parental Saturday - the Saturday before the day of remembrance of the holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki, which is celebrated on November 8 in a new style. If the day of remembrance of the saint also falls on Saturday, the previous one is still considered parental.

Dimitriev's parental Saturday became a day of special commemoration of the dead after the victory of Russian soldiers in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. At first, on this day, those who died on the Kulikovo field were commemorated, then, over the centuries, the tradition changed. In the Novgorod chronicle of the 15th century, we read about Dimitriev's parental Saturday as a day of remembrance for all the dead.

Funeral commemoration on parental Saturday

On the eve of parental Saturday, that is, on Friday evening, the great funeral service is served in Orthodox charmas, which is also called the Greek word "parastas". On Saturday morning itself, the funeral Divine Liturgy is served, followed by a general requiem.

For the parastas or for the funeral Divine Liturgy, you can submit notes of the repose with the names of the dead who are close to your heart. And on this day, according to the old church tradition, parishioners bring food to the church - "for the canon" (or "on the eve"). These are lean products, wine (Cahors) for the celebration of the liturgy.

Why bring food "on the eve"?

Answers n

Bringing podukty to the temple - "on the eve" - ​​is an ancient practice of performing common funerals, that is, commemoration of the departed. According to tradition, the parishioners of the temple gathered a larger common table in order to all together remember the deceased people close to their hearts. Now the food, which the believers bring and put on a special table, are then used for the needs of the parish and to help the needy people, whom the parish takes care of.

It seems to me that this is a good custom - to help those in need or to lighten the burden of people who serve in the church (of course, these are not only priests, but also candle-holders and all those who help free of charge, by the will of the heart in the House of God). By bringing food to the temple, we serve our neighbors and commemorate our departed.

Prayer for the departed

Rest, Lord, the souls of the departed, Thy servant: my parents, relatives, benefactors (their names) and all Orthodox Christians, and forgive them all sins, voluntary and involuntary, and grant them the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is more convenient to read the names from the memorial - a small booklet where the names of living and deceased relatives are recorded. There is a pious custom of keeping family commemorations, reading which both in home prayer and during church services, Orthodox people commemorate many generations of their deceased ancestors by name.

Prayer for the departed Christian

Remember, O Lord our God, in the faith and hope of the life of your eternal reposed servant, our brother (name), and like Good and Humanitarian, forgiving sins, and consuming unrighteousness, weaken, forgive and forgive all his free and involuntary sins, deliver him eternal torment and fire of hell, and grant him the sacrament and pleasure of Thy eternal good, prepared by those who love Thee: if you sin, but do not depart from You, and doubtlessly in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, God in the Trinity is glorified, faith, and One in the Trinity and the Trinity in Unity, Orthodox even to the last gasp of confession. Even so, be merciful to that, and faith, even in Thee instead of deeds of imputation, and with Thy saints, as Generous, rest: there is no man, who will live and not sin. But Thou art One besides all sin, and Thy righteousness, the truth forever, and Thou art the One God of mercies and generosity, and love for mankind, and we give You glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen

Widower's Prayer

Christ Jesus, Lord and Almighty! In contrition and tenderness of my heart I pray to You: rest, O Lord, the soul of Your deceased servant (name), in Your Heavenly Kingdom. Master Almighty! You have blessed the conjugal union of a husband and wife, always declaring: it is not good for a single person to be, let us make him an assistant for him. Thou art sanctified this union in the image of the spiritual union of Christ with the Church. I believe, O Lord, and I confess that you have blessed me to combine and in this holy union with one of Your servants. By your good and wise will, please, take away from me this servant of yours, you have already given me, as a helper and companion of my life. I bow before this by Your will, and I pray to You with all my heart, accept my prayer for Your servant (name), and forgive her if you sin in word, deed, thought, knowledge and ignorance; if you love the earthly more than the heavenly; As much as for the clothing and adornment of his body, he burns more than for the enlightenment of the garment of his soul; or even if he is negligent about his children; if you grieve anyone with word or deed; If you pound in your heart against your neighbor, or condemn someone or other that you have done evil from such.
Forgive her for all this, as a kind and benevolent man: as if there is no man, whoever will live and will not sin. Do not enter into judgment with Thy servant, as Thy creation, do not condemn her for eternal torment by her sin, but spare and have mercy according to Thy great mercy. I pray and ask Thee, Lord, grant me strength throughout all the days of my life, without ceasing to pray for Thy slave who has departed, and even until the death of my belly, ask her from Thee, Judge of the whole world, for the abandonment of her sins. Yes, as you, God, put on her head a crown of an honest stone, crowning her here on earth; so crown Thy eternal glory in Thy Heavenly Kingdom, with all the saints who rejoice there, and together with them forever sing Thy all-holy name with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Widow's Prayer

Christ Jesus, Lord and Almighty! You are crying consolation, orphans and widows of intercession. You advertise: call on Me in the day of your sorrow, and I will destroy you. In the days of my sorrow I run to You and I pray to You: do not turn your face away from me and hear my prayer, brought to You with tears. Thou, Lord, the Lord of all, was pleased to combine me with one of Thy servants, in his hedgehog we are one body and one spirit; You gave me this slave, like a roommate and protector. By your good and wise will, please, take away your servant from me and leave me alone. I bow before this by Thy will and I run to You in the days of my sorrow: quench my sorrow about separation from Thy servant, my friend. If you have taken him away from me, do not take away from me your mercy. As if once upon a time you accepted two mites as a widow, so accept this prayer of mine. Remember, O Lord, the soul of Your deceased servant (name), forgive him all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, if in word, if in deed, if in knowledge and ignorance, do not destroy him with his iniquities and do not betray him to eternal torment, but by your great mercy and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, weaken and forgive all his sins and bring him to Thy saints, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life. I pray and ask Thee, Lord, grant me throughout all the days of my life not to cease to pray for Thy slave who has departed, and even before my departure I ask Thee, Judge of the whole world, for the abandonment of all his sins and his resettlement into Heavenly abodes, you have already prepared for those who love Ty. As if you have sinned, but do not depart from You, and it is beyond doubt that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are Orthodox even before their last breath of confession; by the same his faith, even in Thee, instead of deeds to him: as if there is a man, who will live and will not sin, You are one but sin, and Your truth is truth forever. I believe, Lord, and I confess that you hear my prayer and do not turn your face away from me. Seeing the widow, I cry in earnest, having mercy, I was carrying her son for burial, you resurrected: so having compassion, calm down my grief. For you have opened the doors of Your mercy to Your servant Theophilus, who has departed to You, and you have forgiven him for his sins through the prayers of Your Holy Church, listening to the prayers and alms of his wife: sit and I pray to You, accept my prayer for your servant. eternal life. For Thou art our hope. Thou art God, the hedgehog to be merciful and save, and we glorify Thee with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Parents' Prayer for Dead Children

Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Lord of life and death, Comforter of the mourning! With a contrite and tender heart, I run to You and pray to Ty: remember. Lord, in Thy Kingdom, Thy deceased servant (thy servant), my child (name), and make him (her) an eternal memory. You, Lord of life and death, have given me this child. Your good and wise will please and take it from me. Blessed be Thy name, Lord. I pray to Thee, Judge of heaven and earth, with Thy endless love for us, sinners, forgive my deceased child for all his sins, voluntary and involuntary, even in word, even in deed, also in knowledge and ignorance. Forgive me, Merciful, and our parental sins, may they not abide on our children: we have, as if we sinned many times before You, did not observe many, did not create, as if you commanded us. If our deceased child, ours or ours for the sake of guilt, is in this life, working for the world and for his flesh, and not more for Thee, Lord and his God: if you love the delights of this world, and not more than Your Word and Your commandments, if you have surrendered with the sweetness of everyday life, and not more than regret for his sins, and in intemperance, vigilance, fasting and prayer before oblivion - I pray to Thee earnestly, forgive, blessed Father, to my child all such sins of his, forgive and weaken, if you do something else evil in this life ... Christ Jesus! Thou art raised the daughter of Jairus by faith and the prayer of her father. Thou art healed the daughter of a Canaanite wife by faith and the request of her mother: hear my mother and my prayer, do not despise my prayers for my child. Forgive, Lord, forgive all his sins and, having forgiven and purifying his soul, take out eternal torment and instill with all Your saints, who have pleased You from time immemorial, where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing, but endless life: as if there is no man, like He will live and will not sin, but You are the only one besides all sin: yes, whenever you judge the world, my child will hear Your glorified voice: come, blessed of My Father, and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the folding of the world. For you are the Father of mercies and bounties. Thou art our life and our resurrection, and we glorify Thee with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of Children for Deceased Parents

Lord Jesus Christ our God! You are the guardian of the orphans, the grieving refuge and the crying comforter. I come running to you, sir, sighing and crying, and I pray to You: hear my prayer and do not turn your face away from the sighs of my heart and from the tears of my eyes. I pray to Thee, merciful Lord, satisfy my grief about separation from my parent who gave birth and raised (who gave birth and raised) me (my matter), (name) (or: with my parents who gave birth and raised me, their names) -, but his soul (or: her, or: them), as if she departed (or: those who departed) to You with true faith in You and with firm hope in Your philanthropy and mercy, accept into Your Kingdom of Heaven. I bow before Your holy will, they will also take away (or: taken away, or: taken away) from me, and I ask You, do not take away from him (or: from her, or: from them) Your mercy and mercy. We, Lord, as if You are the Judge of this world, punish the sins and wickedness of fathers in children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, even up to the third and fourth kind: but also favor the fathers for the prayers and virtues of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. With contrition and tenderness of my heart, I pray to Thee, merciful Judge, do not punish the deceased unforgettable (deceased unforgettable) with eternal punishment for my servant (Thy servant), my parent (my mother) (name), but release him (her) all his transgressions ( her) voluntary and involuntary, in word and deed, knowledge and ignorance, created by him (her) in his (her) life here on earth, and by Thy mercy and love for mankind, prayers for the sake of the Most Pure Theotokos and all saints, have mercy on him (s) and eternal Deliver the torment. You, merciful Father of fathers and children! Grant me, all the days of my life, until my last breath, not to cease to remember my deceased parent (my deceased mother) in my prayers, and beg Thee, the righteous Judge, and give him (s) in a brighter place, in a cool place. and in a place of peace, with all the saints, all sickness, sorrow and sighing are by no means fled. Merciful Lord! Accept this day for Thy servant (Thy) (name) this warm prayer and give him (her) in Thy reward for the labors and care of my upbringing in faith and Christian piety, as if he taught (taught) me first of all to lead Thee, his Lord, to to pray to Thee with reverence, the One to trust in Thee in troubles, sorrows and diseases, and to keep Thy commandments; for his (her) welfare for my spiritual prosperity, for the warmth that he (she) brings for me before You and for all the gifts they (her) asked me from You, give him (her) Your mercy. With your heavenly blessings and joys in your eternal Kingdom. Thou art the God of mercies and generosity and love for mankind, Thou art the peace and joy of Thy faithful servants, and We glorify Thee with the Father and the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and forever and ever. Amen

Do I need to go to the cemetery on parental Saturday?

Answers n rotopriest Igor FOMIN, rector of the Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO:

The main thing is not to go to the cemetery. instead of services in the temple. Our prayer is much more important to our deceased relatives and friends than visiting the grave. So try to get imbued with worship, listen to the chants in the temple, turn your heart to the Lord.

Folk traditions of parenting Saturdays

In Russia folk traditions commemoration of the dead people was somewhat different from the church. Ordinary people went to the graves of relatives before big holidays - on the eve of Maslenitsa, Trinity (Pentecost), Intercession Holy Mother of God and the day of memory of the holy great martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki.

Most of all, the people revered the Dimmitrievskaya parental Saturday. In 1903, Emperor Nicholas II even issued a decree on the performance of a special memorial service for the soldiers who fell for the Fatherland - "For the faith, the Tsar and the Fatherland, who laid their belly on the battlefield."

In Ukraine and Belarus, the days of special commemoration of the dead were called "Grandfathers". There were up to six such “grandfathers” a year. The people superstitiously believed that on these days all deceased relatives would invisibly join the family memorial meal.

Radonitsa was called "Joyful grandfathers", the people loved this day very much, because they went to the graves of their loved ones with the happy news of the Resurrection of Christ. There were also Pokrovsky, Nikolsky Dedy and others.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Sermon on the Commemoration of Orthodox Soldiers Who Died on the Battlefield

We are accustomed in our life that about every need, about every occasion, we turn to God for His help. And for every our call, for every cry of longing, suffering, fear, we expect the Lord to intercede for us, to protect us, to comfort us; and we know that He does this constantly and that He showed His utmost concern for us by becoming a Man and dying for us and for our sake.

But sometimes it happens in the life of our world that God turns to man for help; and this happens all the time, but often hardly noticeable, or even remains unnoticed by us. God constantly turns to each of us, asking, praying, persuading to be in this world, which He loved so much that he laid down his life for it, to be His living presence, to be His living care, seeing, virtuous, attentive. He tells us: no matter what we do good for any person, we have done for Him, inviting us to be, as it were, in His place.

And sometimes He calls some people to a more personal service to Him. In the Old Testament we read about prophets: the prophet Amos says that a prophet is a person with whom God shares His thoughts; but also not only by thoughts, but also by His deeds. Remember the prophet Isaiah, who in a vision contemplated the Lord looking around and saying: Whom should I send? - and the prophet got up and said: Me, Lord !.

But behold, among the prophets, among the people who served God with an undivided heart, all great strength soul, there is one, whose memory we celebrate today and whom Christ called the greatest among those born on earth.

And indeed, when you think about his fate, it seems that there is no fate more majestic and more tragic. His whole destiny was, as it were, to not to be, so that in the consciousness and in the vision of people the only one who there is: Lord.

Remember the first thing that is said about him in the Gospel of Mark: He is a voice crying in the wilderness ... He is only a voice, he is so indistinguishable from his ministry that he became only God's voice, only an evangelist; like him, like a man of flesh and blood, a man who can yearn, and suffer, and pray, and seek, and stand, in the end, before the impending death - as if this man does not exist. He and his calling are one and the same; he is the voice of the Lord, sounding, thundering in the middle of the human desert; that desert where souls are empty - because there were people around John, and the desert remained unchanged from this.

And further. The Lord Himself says about him in the Gospel that he is the Friend of the Bridegroom. A friend who loves the bride and groom so much, so deeply that he is able, forgetting himself, to serve their love, and to serve in order to never be superfluous, never to be there and then when not needed. He is a friend who is able to protect the love of the bride and groom and remain outside, the keeper of the secret of this love. Here, too, is the great secret of a man who is capable, as it were, not become in order for something more than him, It was.

And then he says about himself in relation to the Lord: I need to decrease, go to naught, in order for Him to increase ... Andrew and John are on the banks of the Jordan, and they followed Him with an unrequited heart only: I live only so that I would be gone !.

And the last - the terrible image of John, when he was already in prison, when the ring of death narrowed around him, when he no longer had a way out, when this colossally great soul hesitated ... there was nothing of their own: in the past there was only a feat of renunciation of oneself, and in front there was darkness.

And at that moment, when the spirit hesitated in him, he sent his disciples to ask Christ: Are you the one we were expecting ?. If Thoth was worth young years die alive; if the One, then it was worth diminishing from year to year to be forgotten and only the image of the Coming One would grow in the eyes of people; if Thoth, then it was worth it and now to die with the last dying, because everything for which he lived is fulfilled and perfect.

But what if He is not the One ?. Then everything is lost, youth is ruined, the greatest power is ruined in mature years, everything is ruined, everything is meaningless. And it is even more terrible that this happened, because God seemed to have deceived: God who called him into the wilderness; God who took him away from people; God who inspired him to the feat of self-death. Has God deceived, and life has passed, and there is no return ?.

And so, having sent the disciples to Christ with the question: Are you the one? - he does not receive a direct, comforting answer; Christ does not answer him: Yes, I am the One, go in peace !. He only gives the prophet the answer of another prophet that the blind receive their sight, that the lame walk, that the dead are raised, that the poor are preaching the gospel. He gives the answer from Isaiah, but does not add His words - nothing but one formidable warning: Blessed is he who will not be tempted about Me; go tell John ...

And this answer reached John in his dying expectation: believe to the end; believe without asking for signs, testimonies, or proofs; believe, because you have heard within, in the depths of your soul, the voice of the Lord, commanding to do the work of the prophet ... Others can somehow lean on the Lord in their sometimes greatest feat; But God supports John only by commanding him to be the Forerunner and in order to show the ultimate faith, confidence in things invisible.

And that is why it takes our breath away when we think of him, and that is why, when we think of a heroic deed that has no limit, we remember John. That is why of those who were born among people by natural birth and were lifted up wonderfully by grace, he is the greatest of all.

Today we celebrate the day of the beheading of his head. Celebrating ... We used to understand the word “celebrate” as “joy”, but it means “to be idle”. And you can stay idle because joy will overwhelm your soul and it is no longer up to ordinary things, but it can happen that your hands dropped from grief and horror. And this is today's holiday: what will you take up in the face of what we have heard about today in the Gospel?

And on this day, when before the horror and majesty of this fate give up, the Church calls us to pray for those who are also in horror, and trembling, and bewilderment, and sometimes in despair they died: they died on the battlefield, died in dungeons, died the lonely death of a person. After you venerate the cross, we will pray for all those who laid down their lives on the battlefield for others to live; bowed to the ground so that another rose. Let us remember those who, not only in our time, but from millennium to millennium, perished a terrible death, because they knew how to love, or because others did not know how to love, let us remember everyone, because the Lord's love embraces everyone, and for everyone is ahead, praying, the great John, who went to the end through the whole tragedy of the sacrifice of dying and death without a single word of consolation, but only by the imperious command of God: "Believe to the end, and be faithful to the end!" Amen.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. About death

I have a peculiar attitude to death, and I want to explain why I take death not only calmly, but with desire, with hope, with longing for it.

My first vivid impression of death is a conversation with my father, who once told me: “You must live this way in order to learn to expect your death the way the groom expects his bride: wait for her, yearn for her, rejoice in advance about this meeting , and to meet her reverently, affectionately. " The second impression (of course, not immediately, but much later) is the death of my father. He died suddenly. I went to him in a poor little room at the top of a French house, where there was a bed, a table, a stool, and several books. I went into his room, closed the door and stood. And I was overwhelmed with such a silence, such a depth of silence that I, I remember, exclaimed aloud: “And people say that there is death !. What a lie! " Because this room was filled with life, and such a fullness of life that I had never met outside, on the street, in the yard. That is why I have such an attitude towards death and why I experience the words of the apostle Paul with such force: For me, life is Christ, death is gain, because while I live in the flesh, I am separated from Christ ... But the apostle adds further words that also very much struck me. The quote is not accurate, but this is what he says: he completely wants to die and unite with Christ, but adds: "However, you need me to stay alive and I will continue to live." This is the last sacrifice he can make: everything he aspires to, what he hopes for, what he does, he is ready to postpone, because others need him.

I saw death a lot. I worked as a doctor for fifteen years, of which five years in the war or in the French Resistance. After that I lived for forty-six years as a priest and gradually buried a whole generation of our early emigration; so death I have seen a lot. And it struck me that the Russians are dying in peace; Western people are more often fearful. Russians believe in life, go into life. And this is one of the things that every priest and every person must repeat to himself and to others: one must not prepare for death, one must prepare for eternal life.

We know nothing about death. We do not know what happens to us at the moment of dying, but at least rudimentary we know what eternal life is. Each of us knows from experience that there are some moments when he no longer lives in time, but with such a fullness of life, such a jubilation that does not just belong to the earth. Therefore, the first thing we must teach ourselves and others is to prepare not for death, but for life. And if we talk about death, then talk about it only as a door that will open wide and allow us to enter eternal life.

But dying is still not easy. Whatever we think about death, about eternal life, we do not know anything about death itself, about dying. I want to give you one example of my experience during the war.

I was a junior surgeon at a frontline hospital. A young soldier of about twenty-five, my age, was dying here. I came to him in the evening, sat down next to him and said: "Well, how do you feel?" He looked at me and replied: "I will die tonight." - "Are you afraid to die?" - “Dying is not scary, but it hurts me to part with everything that I love: with a young wife, with a village, with my parents; and one thing is really scary: to die alone.” I say: “You will not die alone.” - "That is, as?" - “I'll stay with you.” - “You can't sit with me all night ...” I answered: “Of course I can!” He thought and said: “Even if you sit with me, at some point I will no longer be aware of this, and then I will go into darkness and die alone.” I say: “No, not at all. I will sit next to you, and we will talk. You will tell me everything you want: about the village, about your family, about your childhood, about your wife, about everything that is in your memory, in your soul, that you love. I will hold your hand . Gradually you will get tired of talking, then I will talk more than you. And then I will see that you start to doze, and then I will speak more quietly. You close your eyes, I will stop talking, but I will hold your hand, and you periodically you will shake my hand, know that I am here. Gradually your hand, although it will feel my hand, will no longer be able to shake it, I myself will begin to shake your hand. And at some point you will no longer be among us, but you will leave not one. We will complete the whole journey together. ”And so hour after hour we spent that night. At some point, he really stopped squeezing my hand, I began to shake his hand so that he knew that I was here. Then his hand began to grow cold, then it opened, and he was no longer with us. And this is very important point; it is very important that a person is not alone when he leaves for eternity.

But it also happens in another way. Sometimes a person is sick for a long time, and if he is then surrounded by love, care, it is easy to die, although it hurts (I will also say about this). But it is very scary when a person is surrounded by people who are just waiting for him to die: they say, while he is sick, we are prisoners of his illness, we cannot leave his bed, we cannot return to our life, we cannot rejoice in our joys; he, like a dark cloud, hangs over us; how he would die as soon as possible ... And the dying person feels it. This can take months. Relatives come and ask coldly: “How do you like it? nothing? Do you need something? do not need anything? OK; you know, I have my own business, I'll come back to you. " And even if the voice does not sound cruel, the person knows that he was visited, only because it was necessary to visit, but that his death is eagerly awaited.

And sometimes it is different. A man dies, dies for a long time, but he is loved, he is dear; and he himself is also ready to sacrifice the happiness of being with a loved one, because it can give joy or help to someone else. I will allow myself now to say something personal about myself.

My mother had been dying of cancer for three years; I followed her. We were very close, dear to each other. But I had my own job - I was the only priest in the London parish, and besides that, once a month I had to go to Paris to the meetings of the Diocesan Council. I didn't have the money to call, so I came back thinking: will I find my mother alive or not ?. She was alive - what a joy! what a meeting! .. Gradually it began to fade away. There were times when she would ring the bell, I would come, and she would say to me: "I am sad without you, we will stay together." And there were times when I myself was unbearable. I went up to her, leaving my business, and said: "It hurts me without you." And she consoled me about her dying and her death. And so gradually we together went into eternity, because when she died, she took with her all my love for her, everything that was between us. And there was so much between us! We lived almost all our lives together, only the first years of emigration we lived apart, because there was nowhere to live together. But then we lived together, and she knew me deeply. And once she said to me: "How strange: the more I know you, the less I could say about you, because every word that I would say about you would have to be corrected with some additional features." Yes, we reached the point where we knew each other so deeply that we could not say anything about each other, but we could join life, dying and death.

And so we must remember that every dying person in such a position, when any callousness, indifference or desire “at last it would end,” is unbearable. A person feels this, knows, and we must learn to overcome in ourselves all dark, gloomy, nasty feelings and, forgetting about ourselves, think deeply, peer, get used to another person. And then death becomes a victory: O death, where is your sting ?! O death, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and not one of the dead is in the grave ...

I want to say something more about death, because what I have already said is very personal. Death surrounds us all the time, death is the fate of all mankind. Now there are wars, people are dying in terrible suffering, and we must learn to be calm in relation to our own death, because we see life in it, the emerging eternal life. Victory over death, over the fear of death, consists in living deeper and deeper for eternity and in bringing others to this fullness of life.

But before death there are other moments. We do not die right away, we do not simply die out bodily. There are very strange phenomena... I remember one of our old women, such a Maria Andreevna, a wonderful little creature who somehow came to me and said: “Father Anthony, I don’t know what to do with myself: I can’t sleep anymore. Throughout the night, images of my past rise in my memory, but not light ones, but only dark, bad images that torment me. I turned to the doctor, asked him to give me some sleeping pills, but sleeping pills do not relieve this haze. When I take sleeping pills, I can no longer sort of separate these images from myself, they become delirious, and I feel even worse. What should I do?" I said to her then: “Maria Andreevna, you know, I don’t believe in reincarnation, but I believe that it is given to us from God to experience our life more than once, - not in the sense that you will die and come back to life, but in that, what is happening to you now. When you were young, you, within the narrow limits of your understanding, sometimes did wrong; and by word, and thought, and deed they denigrated themselves and others. Then you forgot this and at different ages continued, to the extent of your understanding, to act like, again, humiliate, defile, defame yourself. Now that you no longer have the strength to resist the memories, they emerge, and each time they emerge, they say to you: Maria Andreevna, now that you are over eighty years old, almost ninety - if you were in the same position that you are now I remember when you were twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years old, would you have done what you did then ?. If you can look deeply into what was then, into your state, into events, into people and say: no, now, with my experience of life, I could never say this murderous word, I could not do that. as I did! - if you can say this with all your being: with your thought, and your heart, and your will, and your flesh, it will leave you. But other, more and more other images will come. And every time the image comes, God will pose a question to you: is this your past sin or is it still your present sin? Because if you once hated a person and did not forgive him, did not reconcile with him, then the sin then is your present sinfulness; it has not departed from you and will not go away until you repent. "

In the same way I can give another example. One day I was summoned by the family of one of our decrepit old women, a bright, bright woman. She clearly had to die on the same day. She confessed, and finally I asked her: "Tell me, Natasha, have you forgiven everyone and everything, or do you still have some kind of splinter in your soul?" She replied: “I have forgiven everyone, except my son-in-law; I will never forgive him! " I said to this: “In that case, I will not give you a prayer of permission and I will not partake of the Holy Mysteries; you will go to the judgment of God and will answer before God for your words. "She says:" After all, I will die today! " - "Yes, you will die without prayer of permission and without communion, if you do not repent and do not be reconciled. I will be back in an hour" - and left. When I returned an hour later, she met me with shining eyes and said: "How right you were! I I called my son-in-law, we explained, reconciled - he is now coming to me, and I hope we kiss each other to death, and I will enter eternity reconciled with everyone. "

However, at the same time, it is also interesting when parental Saturday comes, what kind of day it is, and what are its features.

In fact, in Orthodox calendar we can find not one, but as many as 8 memorial days... Each of them has its own name and features, which are described in detail below.

There are several answers to the question of when is parental Saturday this year:

1. Ecumenical parental Meat Saturday is celebrated on March 2.
2. During Lent, there are three parental Saturdays at once - on 2, 3 and 4 weeks (i.e. March 23, 30 and April 6).
3. And then there is a break associated with the celebration of Easter. The next day is Radonitsa (it is often called parental), which falls on May 7, 2019.
4. Then they remember all the fallen who fought for the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War, i.e. 9th May.
5. After that, the dead are commemorated on Trinity Saturday - June 15.
6. Then they salute all the fallen soldiers for the Tsar and the Fatherland on 11 September.
7. The last parental Saturday is celebrated on November 2, 2019 (it is called Dmitrievskaya).

The dates of these days are closely related to the most important church events (Great Lent, Easter and the holiday). Therefore, all dates are rolling - they change from year to year. The only exception is Memorial Day May 9, which, for obvious reasons, is celebrated only on this date.

What is it - parental Saturday

It is also interesting to understand what parental Saturday is - after all, in fact, the memorial day can fall on other days of the week (although in most cases it is exactly the 6th day).

There are several versions on this score. At least two of them are noteworthy:

1. First of all, the Bible describes the creation of the world in 6 days, after which God rested from all his days and called it Saturday (for a long time it was she who was the 7th day of the week, not Sunday). The state of rest is in good harmony with the mood of the person who wants to remember the deceased. There is no place for vanity in such a delicate issue, and it is better to postpone routine matters for later.
2. And there is also an opinion that the very word Saturday literally means "intercession" (translated from ancient Greek). And in this case, too, everything falls into place: remembering the deceased, people try to intercede for the deceased before God. That is why it is customary to pray intensely for the immortal soul that has left our world, and also to give alms in order to provide the deceased with spiritual help.

Special days of remembrance

When talking about the next or any other parental Saturday, it is important to consider which day it is about. Memorial dates have different meaning- for example, in the Orthodox Church, the deceased are remembered vigorously on special 5 days:

• Ecumenical Meat Parent Saturday.
• 2, 3 and 4 parental Saturdays of Great Lent.

On these days, it is customary to serve the funeral for all the departed Orthodox, and not only for their parents. Of course, this does not mean that it is forbidden to remember them on other days.

It's just that these 5 dates in the year are the most significant and large-scale for remembrance. Moreover, Meat and Trinity Saturdays are ecumenical - ecumenical memorial services are held in churches in memory of all the baptized who have already passed away.

Private parenting days

And these days, according to the church charter, do not appear as funeral, but services are still held - and in three Orthodox churches:

• Russian;
• Bulgarian;
• and Serbian.

These days include:

1. The main date is Radonitsa (it always falls on the second Tuesday after Easter), which is celebrated this year (2019) - May 7. Traditionally, it is customary to visit the church and then go to the cemetery to bring full order at the grave. But leaving food there, and even more so vodka, and even taking alcohol yourself, is highly discouraged.
2. May 9 is not only Victory Day, but also a day of mourning. We remember all the victims of a monstrous and terrible war. Memorial services are also served in churches, so each person can perform the funeral prayer and give alms.
3. Another private day is September 11th. The history of this date goes back to the distant 18th century, when Empress Catherine the Great issued a decree on the commemoration of those killed in Russian-Turkish war... It is customary to pay the last tribute to all Orthodox soldiers.
4. Also, these dates include the Dmitrievskaya (Dimitrievskaya) parental Saturday (this year November 2, 2019), which is timed to commemorate the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki. It is interesting that the tradition has developed since the time of Dmitry Donskoy, who commemorated his fallen comrade after the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.

Saturdays of small fasting

Finally, there are three more memorable days- these are Saturdays that come on the eve of commemorative fasting:

• Rozhdestvensky;
• Petrova;
• Uspensky.

On such days, you can also remember the deceased person - pray for him and give alms.

Thus, if we talk about whether today is a memorial parental Saturday, you should immediately contact church calendar... There are really many days for the memory of loved ones, and the most important thing is to remember a person and pay tribute to him.

It is best to go to the temple and then clean up the grave. But the use of vodka, leaving food on the grave is extremely undesirable.

In the calendar of the Orthodox Church there are special days on which the living commemorate the dead. It is customary to remember not every deceased person on parental Saturday - there are rules, observing which all Orthodox Christians support old traditions, remember the forefathers who died untimely or passed away for the sake of other people. Orthodox Church helps in this, explaining to the parishioners when and how to celebrate such days.

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History and varieties

In the Christian calendar, there are days called "parental Saturdays" on which believers remember their departed relatives. There are several such holidays, each has its own name, its own characteristics and is celebrated once a year.

Obligatory for such days are church services, where parishioners pray for their relatives. At the end of the day, according to Orthodox traditions, funeral feasts, or commemorations, are held.

According to the Gospel, it was on the Sabbath day of the week that Jesus Christ was put into the tomb and mourned. Therefore, Saturday was chosen as the day of remembrance of the deceased.

Sometimes such days are mistakenly called "ecumenical parental Saturdays", although the Orthodox faith marks only two calendar dates on which "ecumenical" or universal funeral services are held:

• Meat - celebrated in winter and spring, on the last Saturday before the Last Judgment Week (a week before Lent).
• Trinity - celebrated in spring and summer, on the last Saturday before the feast of Pentecost (the birthday of the Church of Christ, or the feast of the Holy Trinity).

Unlike ordinary parenting, all Christians are remembered during ecumenicals, regardless of kinship, and especially those who have no loved ones left and whom there is no one to remember.

Ecumenical meat-eating parenting Saturday

On the ecumenical meat-emptying parental Saturday, a special funeral service is read with prayers for the granting of eternal life and for the remission of sins, called "Memory performed by all of the departed Orthodox Christians, our father and our brethren."

This parental Saturday got its name because the Sunday following it is called "meat-eating week". On such a day, it is allowed to eat meat for the last time before Lent. Also this Sunday is called "small Pancake week", because after it begins the week of Pancake week.

The parental meat-eating house is also named because of the obligatory remembrance on this day of loved ones, among whom the parents are in the first place.

Meat Salad is the first major parental Saturday of the year to commemorate dead Christians. Special attention when performing prayers on meat-and-mouth parental Saturday, it is assigned to Orthodox Christians who have died far from their native land, at sea, in the mountains, in battle, from infectious diseases or from hunger, from influences natural Disasters, to those who could not repent before death, as well as to whom the funeral rite was not performed. It is generally accepted that the living can help the dead with their prayers, especially on this day.

It is no coincidence that this day was chosen for remembrance, since the Sunday following the ecumenical meat-and-mouth parental Saturday reminds of the Last Judgment of Christ, which must be done over all people and appoint each of them his fate.



Other days for remembrance

In addition to the two universal parental Saturdays, there are six parental Saturdays - Dimitrievskaya (in autumn), Commemoration of the departed warriors, Radonitsa and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of Great Lent (these holidays are celebrated in spring). Three weeks are the second, third and fourth Saturdays of Great Lent. All parental Saturdays have a rolling calendar date, except for the Commemoration of the Departed Warriors, which is celebrated on May 9. On this day, all those who died during the Great Patriotic War are also remembered.

There is one more number for the commemoration of the fallen soldiers. It's September 11th. The tradition goes back to 1769, when, in the war between Russia and Poland and Turkey, they decided to commemorate all Christian soldiers who fell for the Tsar, Fatherland and Faith on the battlefield on the feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist.

Dimitriev's parental Saturday was originally celebrated as a memorial day for the soldiers who laid down their heads in the battle of 1380 at the Kulikovo field, but over time it became a common memorial day. They are intended to commemorate our dear and loved ones.

The service held on Dimitrievskaya parental Saturday precedes the memory of the holy Great Martyr Dmitry of Thessaloniki. He is considered the patron saint of Prince Dmitry Donskoy, who, after the victory of the Russian troops on the Kulikovo field, proposed to perpetuate this event with an annual commemoration of the fallen soldiers. Over time, the memory of this was erased and the memorial Dimitrievskaya Saturday became one of the parenting days.



When parental Saturdays are celebrated

For the next four years, parental Saturdays do not fall in January or December. They were distributed from February to November:

Years	Ecumenical parental Saturday (meat-eating)	Saturday2nd weekGreat Lent	Saturday3rd weekGreat Lent	Saturday4th weekGreat Lent	Radonitsa	Commemoration of the departed warriors	Troitskaya rattendingSaturday	Dimitrievskaya parental Saturday
2018	10 february	March, 3rd	10th of March	March 17	17 april	9th May	26 of May	the 3rd of November
2019	2nd of March	23 march	March 30	March, 6	May 7th	9th May	June 15th	November 2
2020	February 22	March 14th	21 March	28 march	28 april	9th May	June 6th	7 november
2021	March 8	March 27	April 3	April 10th	May 11	9th May	June 19	6 November

What do they do on memorial days

On Friday evening or Saturday morning, you need to go to church and pray not only for parents who have died untimely, but also for all relatives and friends who have passed away. On this day, it is customary not only to give notes for the dead and light candles, but also to bring alms - food, which is then distributed to the poor.

It is not forbidden to visit relatives in the cemetery and distribute money to poor people there. But it is forbidden to speak ill of the dead, so as not to anger them. Remembrance of relatives with alcohol is prohibited - the church categorically condemns such actions. Merry feasts, any songs are unacceptable. However, one should not grieve too much, it is better to pray, remembering the dead.

Weather matters on Radonitsa. If it rains and blows strong wind, it is believed that the departed are angry. In this case, you should go to the morning service and put candles for the dead. Then you need to visit the cemetery and commemorate the deceased there, but the main feast must necessarily take place at home. A visit to the cemetery is a desirable, but optional event, since you can clean it up on any day and this is the duty of every relative of the deceased, and eating and even more alcohol near the graves is categorically unacceptable.

Sunday 24 March 2019 football teams will meet in the qualification of the Euro 2020 group stage Russia and Kazakhstan.

This will be the second match in the current qualifying tournament. Russian team... Let's remind, in the first meeting Russia met with Belgium, which lost with the score 1: 3.

The Russia-Kazakhstan meeting will take place on March 24, 2019 in the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan - the city of Astana(which was renamed on March 20 in just a couple of hours to Nur-Sultan by decision of the deputies of parliament). And how can one fail to recall one of the jokes dedicated to the renaming of the city, and not to say in relation to the Russian national football team that she “flew to Astana, but flew to Nur-Sultan”. Officially, the city changed its name on March 23, 2019, after the signing of the corresponding Decree by the new head of state, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

The match will be held at the stadium "Astana Arena"("Nur-Sultan Arena"). The beginning is at 17:00 Moscow time (at 20:00 local time).

That is:
* Place of the match - Kazakhstan, Astana (Nur-Sultan), "Astana Arena".
* Time of the beginning of the broadcast - 17:00 Moscow time.

Where to watch live match Russia - Kazakhstan:

In Russia the live broadcast of the football match will be shown by the federal TV channel "Match!"... Broadcast, dedicated to the game, will begin at 16:35 Moscow time, the live broadcast itself - at 17:00 Moscow time.

In Kazakhstan the live broadcast of the national football teams will be shown on the channel "QAZAQSTAN" at 20:00 local time.

March 18 in Crimea is a day off or a working day:

According to the above laws, on the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol the date "March 18" is a non-working holiday, an additional day off.

That is:
* March 18 in Crimea and Sevastopol is a day off.

If March 18 coincides with a day off (as, for example, happens in 2023), the day off is postponed to the next working day.

If a holiday coincides with an annual paid vacation, March 18 is not included in the number of calendar days of vacation, but extends it.

Is March 17 a shortened working day:

If the calendar date March 17 falls on a working day, then the duration of work on that day is reduced by 1 hour.

This norm is established in the 95th article Labor Code RF and applies to working days preceding including regional holidays.

International Women's Day March 8 is a memorable date for the UN, and the organization includes 193 states. The memorable dates announced by the General Assembly are intended to stimulate UN members to show increased interest in these events. However, at the moment, not all member states of the United Nations have approved the celebration of Women's Day in their territories on that date.

Below is a list of countries that celebrate International Women's Day. The countries are grouped into groups: in a number of states, the holiday is an official day off (day off) for all citizens, somewhere on March 8 only women have a rest, and there are states where they work on March 8.

In which countries is March 8 a day off (for everyone):

* In Russia- March 8 is one of the most beloved holidays, when men congratulate all women without exception.

* In Ukraine- International Women's Day continues to be an additional day off, despite regular proposals to exclude the event from the number of non-working days and replace it, for example, with Shevchenko's Day, which will be celebrated on March 9.
* In Abkhazia.
* In Azerbaijan.
* In Algeria.
* In Angola.
* In Armenia.
* In Afghanistan.
* In Belarus.
* In Burkina Faso.
* In vietnam.
* In Guinea-Bissau.
* In Georgia.
* In Zambia.
* In Kazakhstan.
* In Cambodia.
* In Kenya.
* In Kyrgyzstan.
* In the DPRK.
* In Cuba.
* In Laos.
* In Latvia.
* In Madagascar.
* In Moldova.
* In Mongolia.
* In Nepal.
* In Tajikistan- since 2009, the holiday has been renamed Mother's Day.
* In Turkmenistan.
* In Uganda.
* In Uzbekistan.
* In Eritrea.
* In South Ossetia.

Countries in which March 8 is a day off only for women:

There are countries in which only women are exempted from work on International Women's Day. This rule is approved:

* In China.
* In Madagascar.

Which countries celebrate March 8, but this is a working day:

In some countries, International Women's Day is widely celebrated, but it is a working day. It:

* Austria.
* Bulgaria.
* Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* Germany- in Berlin, since 2019, March 8 is a day off, in the whole country it is a worker.
* Denmark.
* Italy.
* Cameroon.
* Romania.
* Croatia.
* Chile.
* Switzerland.

In which countries March 8 is NOT celebrated:

* In Brazil - the majority of the inhabitants of which have not even heard of the "international" holiday on March 8. The main event of late February - early March for Brazilians and Brazilian women is not Women's Day at all, but the world's largest Brazilian Festival according to the Guinness Book of Records, also called the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In honor of the festival, the inhabitants of Brazil rest for several days in a row, from Friday to noon on Catholic Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent (which for Catholics has a movable date and begins 40 days before Catholic Easter).

* In the United States, a holiday is not a public holiday. In 1994, an attempt by activists to get the celebration in Congress was unsuccessful.

* In the Czech Republic (Czech Republic) - most of the country's population considers the holiday as a relic of the communist past and the main symbol of the old regime.