I would like to augment my prayers for the departed by writing down their names here since they were not Orthodox on this earth and thus traditionally can't be mentioned during the Liturgy. Though when I was at the Monastery of the Transfiguration, I put some of them on the list, and others were mentioned during our house blessing, and on one odd occasion, my Priest out of the blue mentioned my maternal grandparents during a week day feast day Liturgy. I loved the prayer that the nuns recited about those who died alone, fell from cliffs, died at sea, at the hands of another, etc. Even before I inquired into Orthodoxy, while I was in the theater watching Titanic, after a lifetime of being intrigued by the previously lost relics of the ship, I got the distinct, heart-felt impression that the souls of those that died in that tragedy earnestly desired for us to know what happened to them in detail. I feel the same when I hear of murdered victims. They need the truth to be known. I am so thankful for the Orthodox commemoration of and communion with the departed.
Please pray for the following,
My son Isaac, my grandparents, Alton and Sadie Babb, Granddaddy Lueg, George's Grandma and Grandpap Rovny and Grandmother and Grandfather Edinger, his Aunt Gloria and Uncle Jim, my friend Janelle and her father who died in a car crash, and my friend Brian who committed suicide in high school.
These are the ones I have in mind at present. May God comfort and keep them (with those you have in mind) and may we all grow with the Saints towards Christ's Likeness now and ever and unto ages of ages, amen.
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