Parents' Saturdays in January 2027translated

When are Parents' Saturdays in January 2027?

There are no parental Saturdays in January 2027, but this does not mean that the deceased are not commemorated this month. At Liturgies, funeral prayers are heard, notes with the names of the dead are read, and at the very beginning of the service - at the proskomedia - pieces are taken out from the prosphora. At the request of believers, memorial services are held after services. A memorial service can be ordered at the church on any day of the week, but during the holiday period of Christmastide in January, the memorial service is canceled. But even on these days, as throughout the whole year, you can and should remember the departed at home, by yourself, asking the Lord for their repose in your daily personal prayer rule: after all, the dead need our prayer not only a few times a year on special days, but constantly.

There are eight days of general commemoration of the dead in a year, and they all have their own meaning and significance. So, the parental day closest to January in 2027 is Ecumenical, that is, the Saturday when the Church prays for all Orthodox Christians who have ever lived. Another name is meat-eating, since it always falls on the week before Maslenitsa, that is, the last days when Orthodox Christians eat meat before Lent. In all Orthodox churches...