Commemoration of the Dead on the 3rd, on the 9th and on the 40th Day after Death

Translation from RUSSIAN

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Angelic Revelation About the State of Dead Souls
Revealed to Venerable Macarios of Alexandria.

Ven. Macarios of Alexandria through prayers obtained an explanation of a thought occupying his mind – why commemoration of the dead is carried out on the 3rd, the 9th and the 40th day after their death. When on the third day after death there is an offering in the church, then the soul of the deceased receives from its guardian angel relief in the sorrows that it feels from its separation from the body. For in the course of two days it is allowed to wander around the house where its body was laid, to go visit those places where it was during its lifetime, and on the third day it rises to worship God. Then in the course of 6 days the soul is shown the abode of the Saints and the beauty of Paradise. If the soul is guilty of sins, then at the sight of the saints' pleasures it mourns and reproaches itself for the sins. After these 6 days, on the 9th day it rises again to worship God. After the second worship it is shown the place of torment, in which the souls of sinners weep incessantly. In those places the soul is flown for 30 days in tremor lest it itself suffer that same fate. On the 40th day the soul ascends again to worship God, and then the Judge – by its deeds – determines a place for it.