Commemoration of the dead on the third day

The apostolic tradition tells about the commemoration of the dead on the third day after death. It says that the Lord was resurrected on the third day; therefore, we also need to pray intensely for the deceased on this day.

When the Monk Macarius of Alexandria asked the Angel to explain the meaning of church commemoration on the third day, the Angel answered him: “When commemoration occurs in the Church on the third day, then the soul of the deceased receives relief from the Guardian Angel in the sorrow that it feels from separation from the body. The soul that loves the body sometimes wanders around the house in which the body is laid, and thus spends two days like a bird looking for its nest. A virtuous soul walks to the places in which it used to create the truth. "