All Souls Day

Give rest, O Christ, to your servants,
with your saints
where sorrow and pain are no more,
neither sighing, but life everlasting.
You only are immortal,
the Creator and Maker of mankind,
and we are mortal,
formed of the earth,
and to earth shall we return.
For so you did ordain when
you created men, saying,
"You are dust and to dust you shall return."
All of us go down to the dust,
yet even at the grave we make our song:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Give rest, O Christ, to your servants...

~Prayer for the Faithful Departed from the Orthodox Liturgy