panikhida

The priest censes around the coffin and begins a Panikhida.

Committal Upon arriving at the grave, the Panikhida is again chanted.

The monastery regularly prays for everyone buried in the cemetery at the divine liturgy and panikhida services.

After a final Panikhida at the house of the deceased, the body is brought to the church in a procession headed by the cross and banners.

After the First Panikhida, the family and friends begin reading the Psalter aloud beside the casket.

There will also be a special ektenia (litany) for the departed, and at the end another Panikhida will be served around the coffin.

Later, in the strictest secrecy, an Orthodox funeral liturgy, or Panikhida, was offered in the family's dacha.

Then, on the eve of their Glorification will be served an especially solemn Requiem, known as the "Last Panikhida."

The music, steeped in an atmosphere of mourning, contained echoes of the panikhida, the Russian Orthodox requiem.

Tsar Nicholas II attended the panikhida in St. Petersburg and personally spoke with Dukhovskoi's grieving widow.

The novel opens during a Russian Orthodox funeral liturgy, or panikhida, for Yuri's mother, Marya Nikolaevna Zhivago.

There are, in addition, occasional services (baptism, confession, etc.) and intercessory or devotional services (molieben, panikhida), which are not chanted on a daily basis, but according to need.

On this day, after Divine Liturgy, the priest will celebrate a Panikhida in the church, after which he will bless the paschal foods that the faithful have brought with them.

However, at least in the Russian liturgical tradition, a Requiem will often be served on the eve before the Glorification (canonization) of a saint, in a special service known as the "Last Panikhida."

After the Glorification, the Church will no longer serve a Panikhida for the repose of his soul, but instead a Paraklesis or Moleben will be served to implore their intercessions before the Throne of God.

In 1995, the coffin was officially exhumed, and after a Panikhida in the Kremlin Cathedral of the Archangel, it was reburied in a vault of the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow on September 17, 1995.

Radonitsa does not have special hymns for the dead at the Divine Services, but instead, a Panikhida will follow the Divine Liturgy, and then all will bring paschal foods to the cemeteries to greet the departed with the joy of the Resurrection.

After the singing of the Litany of the Saints, the patriarchs, archbishops and metropolitans of the Eastern Catholic Churches approached the coffin of Pope John Paul II for their own rituals of commendation and farewell (panikhida).

Then the family or friends of the departed will wash and dress the body and it is placed in the casket after which a special expanded memorial service called the First Panikhida is celebrated, following which the reading of the Psalter commences and continues uninterrupted until the funeral.

Rather, memorial services (Greek: parastas, Russian: panikhida) are served at the grave of the individual, praying for him or her-though an individual may pray privately to someone who has not yet been formally Glorified, and even commission Icons, which may be kept in the home but not displayed in the Temple (church building).

Mr. Taruskin's view of "L'Histoire du Soldat" as klezmer music is a wonderful insight; his projection of "Symphonies d'Instruments a Vent" as a voiceless panikhida, or Russian Orthodox funeral, is highly stimulating, especially to anyone who takes this to be one of Stravinsky's most spiritual works.