Our close contact as long as they are alive in our hearts. Therefore, it is important to keep sweet memories of deceased loved ones. The first Sunday after Easter is called light or Radonitsa memorial, and the next week Fomina.
This is a very significant week for the Orthodox Ukrainians. And, despite the fact that each region has its own characteristics associated with it, have common traditions and rules.
The most important of them - no tears and lamentations. It is a bright day, in which the soul of the deceased could see what life is like your favorite people in the world. And, of course, our loved ones do not want to see how we cry. It would be better to remember all the good that is connected with them, joyful moments, funny incidents.
On this day we go to the cemetery to clean up at the tomb, we read on it three times, "Our Father" and leave the food, so that everyone could remember the deceased. As a rule, it dishes left over from the Passover table: cakes, colored eggs, candy. Good to decorate the grave with fresh flowers and put on her little lamp.
In any case can not take anything from the food brought home with him. Better give it all to the poor.
All week, the memorial is impossible to work in the garden and in the garden. People say it is disrespectful to the dead and a waste of time, since none of the landed still does not rise, and the harvest will not be.
On Grobki as we still call it a day, supposed to enter the cemetery only through the main gate. At the entrance to stop and sign of the cross three times. And leaving, turn to face the grave and mentally refer to the deceased: "We let the healthy, and you easily lezhitsya. You the Kingdom of God, and to you we do not hurry. "
It is believed that this is the day, when the line between the living world and the dead, so the spirits can easily go to the contact, and you can turn to their relatives for support or advice, Share news and tell about their everyday concerns.
In ancient times it was believed that to come to the cemetery to the deceased should all relatives and friends. Therefore, if a person has moved - it's a great reason to visit their homes. But there are exceptions.
It is not recommended to remember relatives at the grave of pregnant women and kiddies to years old - in which case it would be better to go to church and light a candle for the dead.
