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Glory to Jesus Christ!
Please pray for my loving and much-loved grandfather Ted, who passed away late last night after much suffering, that Christ may number him among the saints and that his memory be eternal.
Why these bitter words of the dying, O brethren, which they utter as they go hence? I am parted from my brethren. All my friends do I abandon, and go hence. But whither I go, that understand I not, neither what shall become of me yonder; only God, who hath summoned me knoweth. But make commemoration of me with the song: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
But whither now go the souls? How dwell they now together there? This mystery have I desired to learn, but none can impart aright. Do they call to mind their own people, as we do them? Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
We go forth on the path eternal, and as condemned, with downcast faces, present ourselves before the only God, eternal. Where then is comeliness?
Where then is wealth? Where then is the glory of this world? There shall none of these things aid us, but only to say oft the psalm: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
If thou hast shown mercy unto man, O man, that same mercy shall be shown thee there; and if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion, the same shall there deliver thee from want. If in this life the naked thou hast clothed, the same shall give thee shelter there, and sing the psalm: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death, and the tongue then burneth fiercely, and the parched throat is inflamed. The beauty of the eye is quenched then, the comeliness of the face all altered, the shapeliness of the neck destroyed: and the other parts have become numb, nor often say: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder; that there is Paradise, wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth. Let us all, also, enter into Christ, that all we may cry aloud thus unto God: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
(Funeral Ikos, St. John of Damascus)
In Christ,
Theophilos
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May your Grandfather Ted rest in peace with the Lord and may his memory be eternal.
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May Ted's memory be eternal+ and may the family be at peace in Jesus.
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With the souls of the righteous, give rest, O Savior, to the soul of Your servant departed, in a place of brightness, a place of green pastures, a place of rest, from whence all sickness, sorrow, and sighing have fled away and where the sight of Your Face enlightens and gladdens and sanctifies that life of Yours which is lived by the saints whom You have gathered from all the ages. Grant him Your Heavenly Kingdom and a portion in Your ineffable and eternal blessings and the enjoyment of Your unending life. Hear our prayer, O Lord, for You are merciful and compassionate and You love mankind, and unto to You are due all glory, honor, and worship, together with your Father Who is from everlasting and Your all-Holy, Good and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. AMEN.
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May Ted rejoice at the Face of God for eternity.
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