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Dear brethren in Christ,

In your genorosity of spirit, could you kindly say a prayer for the soul of my father-in-law, George, who just passed away peacefully in his sleep in Athens, Greece. He was 89 years old. I knew him for almost thirty years, so I had grown to love him as much as if he were my own father.

Please also say a prayer for my husband Peter, my children, and the rest of the family, as we just lost my mother-in-law six months ago. It is also not an opportune time for he and I to make such a trip, so please pray that God will make it possible.

What a year...We had just planned to have my mother-in-law's six month memorial next weekend, and it now has to be cancelled because of my father in law's pending funeral.

Anyway, may the Lord have mercy on his soul and forgive all his sins. May his memory be eternal.

In Christ,
Alice

My Dear Alice:
Please accept my condolonces. May your father-in-law's memory be eternal and may our loving Father comfort all who mourn his death.
Your brother in Christ,
Ryan

May his memory be eternal. I remember the death of your mother-in-law. May her memory be eternal also. Prayers for all of you.

Dear Alice,

My prayers go out to you and your husband at this unexpected loss of your father-in-law, George. May the Lord grant him a place in heavenly mansions where their is no pain suffering or distress. Eternal Memory!

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+

May the Lord God grant rest to his servant, George, in the presence of Light, Joy and Peace; a presence in which there is no pain, sorrow, or mourning. Eternal Memory!

May the Lord God grant comfort to his servants Alice and Pete and their entire family at this time of mourning. May He grant them a safe journey.

Vičnaja jemu pamjat!

Eternal Memory!

Prayers for all of your family, Alice, and for the repose of the soul of George, your father in law,
CS

Come, let us give the final kiss, brethren, to the dead, as we give thanks to God; because he has left his family and is hastening to the grave, he has no further care for things of no moment, affairs of the much-wearied flesh. Where now are his relatives and friends? Now as we are parted let us pray that the Lord will give him rest.

What is this parting, O brethren? What the grieving, what the lamentation in this present instant? Come then, kiss him who a moment ago was with us; he is being entrusted to a grave, covered by a stone, left to dwell in darkness, buried with the dead; all we his relatives and friends as we are now being parted, let us pray that the Lord will give him rest.

Now the whole wretched festival of life�s vanity is being dissolved; for the spirit has left its dwelling, the clay has turned black, the vessel has been broken, without voice, without sensation, without movement; as we escort him to the grave. Let us pray that the Lord will give him rest for ever.

What is our life? Merely a flower, a vapour and morning dew. Come then, let us look closely at the graves; where is the body�s beauty? Where its youth? Where are the eyes and the form of the flesh? All have withered like grass, all have vanished; come, let us fall down before Christ with tears.

Great the weeping and lamentation, great the sighing and constraint at the parting of the soul; Hell and destruction, the life of transitory things, the insubstantial shadow, the sleep of error, the untimely fancied toil of earthly life. Let us fly far from every worldly sin that we may inherit the things of heaven.

As we look on one who lies dead let us accept this expression of the final moment; for he passes like smoke from the earth, he blossomed like a flower, was cut down like grass, is wrapped in a winding sheet, hidden in earth. When we have left him out of sight, let us pray to Christ to give him rest for ever.

Come, offspring of Adam, let us look at one in our image who has been laid in earth, who has discarded all his beauty, been dissolved in a grave by the rottenness of worms, wasted by darkness, hidden in earth. When we have left him out of sight, let us pray to Christ to give him rest for ever.

When the soul is about to be snatched by force from the body by fearsome Angels, it forgets relatives and friends and its concern is for its stand at the coming trial of vanity and much wearied flesh. Come, let us all beseech the Judge and pray that the Lord pardon all that he has done.

Come, brethren, let us look in the tomb at the ashes and dust, from which we were fashioned. Where are we now going? What have we become? What is a poor person, what a rich? What a master, what a free? Are they not all ashes? The beauty of the face has rotted and death has withered all the flower of youth.

Truly all the pleasant and glorious things of life are vanity and corruption! For we all depart, we shall all die, monarchs and rulers, judges and potentates, rich and poor and every mortal being. For now those that were once in life have been cast into tombs. May the Lord give them rest we pray.

Now all the body�s organs are idle, that a little while ago were active; all useless, dead, insensible; for eyes are dimmed, feet bound, hands lie still and hearing with them, tongue is locked in silence, is entrusted to a grave; truly everything human is vanity.

Theotokion.

Save those who hope in you, All-pure Mother of the unsetting Sun, who bore God; with your prayers, we beg you, ask him who is supremely good to give rest where the souls of the righteous are at rest to him who has passed over; make him heir to good things in the courts of the just to eternal memory.

Vicnaja Pamjat


Alexandr

Through the intercession of St. George, I pray for the repose of your father-in-law's soul.

Through the intercession of Sts. Raphael and Christopher, I pray that your trip for the funeral will be safe.

OH Alice

May the Lord have mercy on George and may He welcome him into His mansion where He has prepared a place for him.


Prayers for you all at this time

Dear Sister Aggeliki,

May God have mercy upon your father-in-law soul, and forgive him for all. May Lord Jesus Christ keep in light his soul. Amin.

May God have mercy upon Paraskevi.Amin.

Marian+

God have mercy on Alice's father in law and mother in law ! Eternal memory !

God have mercy on all of their people: children, grandchildren, in laws, including Alice !

May the Theotokos envelope all of them in her mantle of protection, intercession and love !

-- John

Joining in prayers with all here...

Immortal God,
Loving God,
God of Love,
Have mercy and ...

grant comfort to Alice, Peter, and all loved ones who survive these losses.

In the Name of Jesus,

Porter

+Memory Eternal

Christ have mercy.