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14 June 2008 08:23 FOCUS News Agency
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It is Cherry All Soul’s Day on Saturday. It is before the biggest Christian holiday Pentecost or as it is known Ascension’s All Soul’s Day. It the Eastern Orthodox Church thare are three big All Soul’s Day- before the second Sunday before Lent, Cherry All Soul’s Day and the Big( Men) All Soul’s Day. The All Soul’s Day is connected totakeing in the souls of all dead people who were free after Holy Thursday. The Orthodox Church laid down a special liturgy in memory of the dead Christians. This liturgy we know as Cherry All Soul’s Day.On this day we pray about dead’s people souls.
SOURCE:
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