St Paisios the Athonite

When you light a candle and say: "For those who suffer physically and mentally, and for those who need it most," then among these people there are both living and dead. Do you know what rest the deceased feel when we put a candle for them? So we are in a spiritual connection with the living and the departed. In a word, the candle is an "antenna," through which we come in contact with God, with the sick, with the deceased and so on. - St. Paisios the Athonite