What days are the dead remembered? Is it possible to bury suicides? How to pray for deceased parents? Archpriest Igor FOMIN answered the most common questions about how to properly commemorate the dead.

What prayer to commemorate the dead? How often do we commemorate the dead?

The dead Christians are commemorated every day. In every prayer book you can find a prayer for the departed, it is an integral part of the home prayer rule. You can also commemorate the dead by reading the Psalter. Every day, Christians read one kathisma from the Psalter. And in one of the chapters we commemorate our relatives (relatives), friends who have departed to the Lord.

Why commemorate the dead?

The fact is that life continues even after death. Moreover, the final fate of a person is decided not after death, but after the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we are all waiting for. Therefore, before the second coming, we can still change this fate. When we are alive, we can do it ourselves, doing good deeds and believing in Christ. Having died, we can no longer influence our own afterlife, but this can be done by people who remember us, who have a heartache. The best way to change the posthumous fate of the deceased is a prayer for him.

When are the dead remembered? What days are the dead remembered? What time of day can you remember?

The time of the day when you can commemorate the deceased is not regulated by the Church. Eat folk traditions, which go back to paganism and clearly prescribe how and at what hour to remember the dead - but they have nothing to do with Christian prayer. God lives in space without time, and we can reach heaven at any moment of the day or night.
Church established special days commemoration of those who are dear to us and have departed to another world - the so-called Saturdays. There are several of them in a year, and all but one (May 9 - Commemoration of the Dead Warriors) have a rolling date:
Saturday meat-and-fat (Universal Parental Saturday) March 5, 2016.
Saturday of the 2nd Week of Great Lent March 26, 2016.
Saturday of the 3rd week of Great Lent, April 2, 2016.
Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent, April 9, 2016.
Radonitsa May 10, 2016
May 9 - Commemoration of the deceased soldiers
Saturday Trinity (Saturday before the feast of the Trinity). June 18, 2016.
Saturday Dimitrievskaya (Saturday before the day of memory of Dmitry Solunsky, which is celebrated on November 8). November 5, 2016.
In addition to Parental Saturdays, the departed are commemorated in the church at every divine service - at the proskomidia, the part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it. Before the Liturgy, you can submit notes "about commemoration." The note writes the name with which the person was baptized, in the genitive case.

How is it remembered for 9 days? How do they remember for 40 days? How to remember for six months? How to remember for a year?

The ninth and fortieth days from the day of death are special milestones on the way from earthly life to eternal life. This transition does not occur immediately, but gradually. During this period (until the fortieth day), the deceased person gives an answer to the Lord. This moment is extremely important for the deceased, it is akin to childbirth, the birth of a little man. Therefore, during this period, the deceased needs our help. Prayer, good deeds, changing yourself in better side in honor and memory of those close to us.
Six months - such a church commemoration does not exist. But there will be nothing wrong if you remember for six months, for example, when you come to the temple to pray.
An anniversary is a day of remembrance when we - those who loved a person - gather together. The Lord commanded us: Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them (Matt. 18:20). And joint commemoration, when we read a prayer for relatives and friends who are no longer with us, is a bright, sonorous testimony before the Lord that the dead are not forgotten, that they are loved.

Should I celebrate my birthday?

Yes, I think that a person should be commemorated on his birthday. The moment of birth is one of the most significant, great stages in everyone's life, so it will be good if you go to the temple, pray at home, go to the cemetery to commemorate a person.

Is it possible to bury suicides? How to remember suicides?

The question of the funeral service and church commemoration of suicides is a very controversial one. The fact is that the sin of suicide is one of the most serious. This is a sign of a person's distrust of God.
Each such case must be considered separately, because suicides are different - conscious or unconscious, that is, in a state of severe mental disorder. The question of whether it is possible to bury and commemorate in the church a baptized person who committed suicide lies entirely with the responsibility of the ruling bishop. If a tragedy happened to one of your loved ones, you need to come to the ruling bishop of the area where the deceased lived and ask permission for the funeral. The bishop will consider this question and give you an answer.

As for home prayer, you can certainly remember the person who committed suicide. But the most important thing is to do good deeds in his honor and memory.

What can be remembered? Is it possible to change vodka? Why are they commemorated with pancakes?

Trizny, memorial meals came to us from time immemorial. But in ancient times they looked different. It was a treat, a feast not for the relatives of the deceased, but for the poor, crippled, orphans, that is, those who need help and will never be able to arrange such a meal for themselves.
Unfortunately, over time, feast turned from a work of mercy into an ordinary home feast, and often with heavy drinking ...
Of course, such libations have nothing to do with a real Christian commemoration and cannot affect the posthumous fate of the deceased in any way.

How to remember the unbaptized?

A person who did not want to unite himself with the Church of Christ, of course, cannot be commemorated in the temple. His posthumous fate remains at the discretion of the Lord, and we cannot influence the situation here.
Unbaptized relatives can be remembered by praying for them at home and doing good deeds in their honor and memory. Try to change your life for the better, be faithful to Christ, remembering all the good things that the one who died unbaptized did in his life.

How are Muslims remembered? How are Jews remembered? How are Catholics remembered?

In this matter, it makes no difference whether the deceased was a Muslim, a Catholic or a Jew. They are not in the womb Orthodox Church therefore they are commemorated as unbaptized. Their names cannot be written in notes for the proskomedia (the proskomedia is part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it), but you can do good deeds in their memory and pray at home.

How to commemorate the dead in the temple?

All those dead who combined themselves with the Church of Christ in the Sacrament of Baptism are commemorated in the temple. Even if a person for some reason did not go to church during his life, but was baptized, he can and should be commemorated. Before the Divine Liturgy, you can submit a note “for proskomedia”.
The proskomedia is part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it. At the proskomedia, bread and wine are prepared for the future Sacrament of Communion - the transfer of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. It not only prepares the future Body of Christ (Lamb - a large prosphora) and the future Blood of Christ for the Sacrament (wine), but also reads a prayer for Christians - living or dead. For the Mother of God, the saints and us, ordinary believers, particles are taken out of the prosphora. Pay attention when they give you a small prosphora after Communion - it’s as if “someone dug out a piece” from it. This priest takes out particles from the prosphora for each name written in the note "for the proskomedia".
At the end of the Liturgy, pieces of bread, symbolizing the souls of living or dead Christians, are immersed in a bowl of Christ's Blood. The priest at this moment reads the prayer “Wash, O Lord, the sins of those who are remembered here by Thy Blood by the honest prayers of Thy saints.”
Also in the temples are special memorial services - requiems. You can submit a separate note for a memorial service. But it is important not only to submit a note, but also to try to personally attend the service where it will be read. You can find out about the time of this service from the servants of the temple, to whom a note is submitted.

How to commemorate the dead at home?

In every prayer book you can find a prayer for the departed, it is an integral part of the home prayer rule. You can also commemorate the dead by reading the Psalter. Every day, Christians read one kathisma from the Psalter. And in one of the chapters we commemorate our relatives (relatives), friends who have departed to the Lord.

How to commemorate in a post?

During fasting, there are special days of commemoration of the dead - Parental Saturdays and Sundays, when full days are served (as opposed to shortened on other days of fasting) Divine Liturgies. During these divine services, a proskomedia commemoration of the dead is performed, when for each person a piece is taken out of a large prosphora, symbolizing his soul.

How to commemorate the newly deceased?

From the first day of the repose of a person, the Psalter is read over his body. If the deceased is a priest, then the Gospel is read. The Psalter must continue to be read even after the funeral, until the fortieth day.
The newly deceased is also commemorated at the funeral service. The funeral service is supposed to be performed on the third day after death, and it is important that it is carried out not in absentia, but over the body of the deceased. The fact is that all those who loved a person come to the funeral, and their prayer is special, conciliar.
You can also commemorate the newly deceased with a sacrifice. For example, to distribute to those in need his good, solid things - clothes, household items. You can do this from the first day after the death of a person.

When to remember your parents?

There are no special days when it is necessary to commemorate our parents, those who gave us life, in the Church. Parents can always be remembered. And on Parental Saturdays in the temple, and daily at home, and submitting notes “for proskomedia”. You can turn to the Lord at any day and hour, He will definitely hear you.

How to remember animals?

Animals are not accepted in Christianity. The teaching of the Church says that eternal life is prepared only for man, since only man has a soul for which we pray.

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Instruction

Pray for the deceased in the morning on the day when it is six months from the date of death native person. This should be done at home in front of an icon, photograph, and a pre-lit candle. Check out the church before going to the grave. This should be done before the start of the church service. Put a donation and buy a candle (mandatory).

Submit a note with the name of the deceased in the appropriate window of the temple, ordering a special ceremony. It is best if you order a commemoration at the proskomedia. In this case, a small piece is taken out of a special prosphora for the deceased and subsequently lowered into a special bowl with holy water as a sign of the washing of his sins.

Light a lamp or just a candle bought in the church. Cover near the grave small table with food, in order, as they say, to eat with the dead. According to legend, it is believed that the spirit of the deceased is in the clouds and is nearby. You should also put a few pieces of food on the grave. At the same time, it is important to observe fasts, if there are any at the time of commemoration.

Pray for the repose of the soul of the deceased near the grave. Gather everyone who visited the grave of the deceased and invite them home to the memorial table. The food on the table should only be allowed by the church at the time of the commemoration (fasting - fasting, and also depending on the day of the week on which the commemoration takes place).

It is necessary to make lithium before the meal. This can be done by a layman by reciting a prayer accordingly.

Serve first, before you start the meal, kutya (porridge) made from wheat or rice with raisins and honey.

Proceed to the meal, each time remembering the good deeds and deeds of the deceased. It is from here that the name "Commemoration" - means.
Attention! Remembering the deceased, one should refrain from alcohol even if the deceased himself liked to drink.

In the Christian tradition, the commemoration of the dead symbolizes faith in eternal life and in the fact that after the “biological” life another life begins, not known to earthly people, but no less real for this. Remembering, we try to help the person who has left us in eternal life. And since the commemoration of the dead is primarily based on faith, all customs are somehow connected with the church.

You will need

* prayer book;
* church candles.

Instruction

First, pray. Since the world that we turn to when we are dead is non-material for us, the basis of interaction with it is precisely prayer. Despite the fact that prayer is almost always possible, there are special days: after - the third, ninth, fortieth, as well as birthday, death day, etc. Bring a prayer at home or in the temple. At the same time, it is believed that prayer has a greater grace-filled power. At a church commemoration, the priest pronounces the names that you transfer to the church kiosk before the service by writing on. Also light a candle.

The memorial meal is also one of the important components of the memorial tradition. Meals are arranged for relatives and friends of the deceased on the third, ninth, fortieth day and anniversary. Traditionally, before a candle or lamp, one of the relatives reads the 17th kathisma from the Psalter, after which all those present read "Our Father".

A few words about the memorial table. Serve kutia first, having previously consecrated it in the church or sprinkled it with holy water. Pancakes are also traditional. Alcohol, contrary to popular belief, should be excluded.

Please note that if it falls on Wednesday or Friday or time, the table should be fast. And from the weekday of Great Lent, move them to the next Saturday or Sunday.

The custom of visiting the graves of deceased relatives on Radonitsa is widespread. Believers not only clean the graves after the winter, but also pray. Usually the Easter troparion "Christ is Risen" is read or sung three times. Then you can read the 90th psalm. Instead of the usual funeral kontakion "God rest with the saints," it is customary to read or sing the Pascha kontakion "Once and into the grave, thou hast descended immortal." Also, special funeral troparia from the requiems and litia "From the spirits of the righteous who have died" can be read or sung. Some believers in cemeteries on the day of Radonitsa read (sing) the canon of Easter.

The commemoration of the dead on Radonitsa can also be performed at home after visiting the liturgy and burial places. At home, the above Easter hymns can also be sung.

Radonitsa serves as a special remembrance of the fact that Christ descended into hell, brought out people who believed in him, delivering them from spiritual death.

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After a person leaves this world, you need to remember him. In this regard, certain traditions have developed that must be observed several times a year, after his death. They commemorate the deceased in the church, it is advisable to do this more often so that there is no comparison with any of the dates.

It is very important that the prayer for the deceased, his reassurance, be observed. But very often, due to the fact that everyday bustle seizes people, there is absolutely no time, even a year after death, to go to the grave, go to church. By the way, many people still don't go to church to commemorate the dead, because they don't know how to do it.

How to commemorate

Early in the morning, on the day when six months have passed since the death of a person, you need to pray for his soul. It is desirable that the prayer be at home in front of the photo of the deceased and the icon. You will also need to light a candle, which you should first buy in the temple shop. Before you go to the grave of the deceased, you should go to the church, but so that there is no service there. Leave a donation there and buy another candle.

It is also worth submitting a note where the name of the deceased will be written, this should be done in a special window of the church, where the ceremony is ordered. It is better to order a commemoration at the proskomedia, this suggests that a piece of it is taken out of a special prosphora for the deceased and lowered into a certain bowl filled with holy water. This will be a sign of washing away the sins of the deceased.

It will be necessary to defend the memorial service, after the Liturgy has passed, put a candle for the repose. So, they say that prayer will be more effective for the deceased if on this day the commemorator himself takes communion.

Memorial at the cemetery

Buy another candle, and take it to the cemetery, you need to put it on the grave of the deceased. It is worth going to the cemetery immediately after the above procedure.

You need to light a candle. Set a table near the grave where there will be food, so that it seems like you can eat together with the deceased. So they say that the spirit of the deceased will soar in the clouds, being nearby. It is worth putting food on the grave. But remember that it is very important that all the fasts that are at this moment must be observed.

Say a prayer for the soul of the deceased. And all those who came to visit him, invite home to your place to sit at memorial table. Food must be prepared in accordance with the fast.

Remember that before you commemorate at the table, you need to conduct a lithium by reading a prayer. And before the guests begin to eat, it is worth serving kutya from rice and honey, raisins.

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Once in the life of every person, there comes a time when one of the acquaintances, relatives or relatives goes to the deceased forefathers. The remains of a deceased person are most often buried in the ground, where they will be in the future. However, love for does not dry out, therefore, in certain days memorial services are held for the deceased. In order to avoid unwanted mistakes, it is very important to know how to commemorate the dead, on what days it is done and, of course, how the commemoration takes place.

There are three main periods for commemoration after the death of a person.. The first time prayers take place on the third day, the second time they are commemorated on the ninth day, and for the third time they pray for the deceased at the onset of the fortieth day. The countdown is from the day of death of a person, and not from the day of burial. Wake on fixed days is a sacred custom that has been preserved since ancient times.

Basic mistakes and rules

Wake, like any other custom, has its own rules established over the years. They must certainly be observed so as not to inadvertently disturb and offend the soul of the deceased. But before you find out what rules for commemorating the dead exist, you should learn about the erroneous actions that many people do at a funeral. Common mistakes can be related to items such as:

So, how to commemorate deceased relatives.

As mentioned earlier, there are three special periods when a commemoration is held, not counting the day of the funeral:

After forty days, the deceased is considered to be ever-memorable, that is, the one who needs to be ever remembered, where "ever" means "always." You should not forget about your deceased relative or close person after death.

What is a memorial service

During life, love can be shown to your loved ones by hugging them and kissing them.. But if a person goes to another world, then you can show your feelings for him only with the help of a memorial service. They are held in the church, as a rule, immediately after the end of the morning service. How much the memorial service will cost, you can find out directly when visiting the temple.

To hold a memorial service, you need to buy bread or something from pastries, but in no case should it be sweet, and you can also buy fruit. These products are considered basic, but other types can be added, depending on financial opportunities. As a rule, on this day it is customary to carry flour, various cereals and vegetable oil. In no case should you take alcohol and sweets with you.

A note with the names of all deceased relatives, written in advance, is added to the products. Form for correct filling can be taken directly from the church. Everything prepared for the memorial service is placed on a special table. During the memorial service, the presence of someone who calls out to the saints with a prayer is desirable. The total duration of the sacred action is about fifteen minutes. Believers say that at this time the soul stands next to its relative and prays for him in the same way as he does.

There are memorial services that are especially significant for the dead souls, their effect is 10 times stronger than a regular service. They pass on a special day of remembrance of the dead, which falls on the parental and Memorial Saturday. You can find out when they happen and how many there are in a year in the church itself or in a special church calendar where they are usually marked with a black cross. As a rule, most of them fall on the period of Lent.

The soul of a deceased person is waiting for a relative in the temple and rejoices if he comes. Otherwise, she is very sad and feels empty. The day before, on Friday evening, parastas copes in the name of the deceased.

In addition to Saturdays, the commemoration of the dead in Orthodoxy takes place on Radonitsa, which follows on the ninth day after the celebration of Easter. It is at this time that the souls are waiting for their relatives near the graves or in the church, sometimes they come to the apartment where they lived until death. On this day, it is necessary to remember them intensely, as well as order a memorial service and give alms to those in need. If the birthday of the deceased falls on Radonitsa, then there is nothing wrong with arranging a commemoration. There are no prohibitions for the memory of loved ones who left the mortal earth.

The church charter says

Do not forget about your loved ones who have gone to God. The commemoration of the dead, according to the charter of the Orthodox Church, takes place six months after the date of death, and even a year later. The anniversary of death is considered the second birth of the soul and new life V Heavenly Kingdom. Special attention you need to pay commemoration before Trinity Saturday; when the next commemoration of the deceased is made, a candle is placed in the church for the repose of the soul in the place reserved for the deceased in one of the hollow candlesticks, and a memorial service is also ordered. But in no case, even after many years from the date of death, you can not bring alcohol or sweets. No need to anger God and torment the soul of the deceased.

According to the charter of the church, for the grace of the soul of the deceased, immediately after his death, a magpie must be ordered in the temple, which will be read for forty days. In the monastery, you can order a prayer service for the repose, which the ministers will do for several months. Another important point, which must be observed - if a person was unbaptized during his lifetime, then in church services he cannot be remembered. One can only pray for the blessing of his soul at home before the face of the saint, whose name was given to the reposed servant of God.

If for some reason it is not possible to celebrate a commemoration on the day of death loved one, then you can do this at any other time, even if it is much later than the date of death, with the exception of those days when it is forbidden to commemorate the dead. Don't have a memorial service church rules during:

Easter.
Holy Week.

In these days, it is impossible to celebrate a wake, in this way you can disturb the reposed soul, as a result of which it will suffer and languish.

You can repeatedly hear that it is impossible to commemorate the dead on Monday. In fact, the church charter does not prohibit this. This opinion is connected solely with the opinion of people that Monday is a difficult day, and nothing can be started on this day, which means that you can hold a commemoration on this day of the week.

What days are the dead remembered? Is it possible to bury suicides? How to pray for deceased parents? Especially for Radonitsa, Archpriest Igor FOMIN answered the most common questions about how to properly commemorate the dead.

What prayer to commemorate the dead? How often do we commemorate the dead?

Why commemorate the dead?

When are the dead remembered? What days are the dead remembered? What time of day can you remember?

The time of the day when you can commemorate the deceased is not regulated by the Church. There are folk traditions that go back to paganism and clearly prescribe how and at what hour to remember the dead - but they have nothing to do with Christian prayer. God lives in space without time, and we can reach heaven at any moment of the day or night.

The Church has established special days of commemoration of those who are dear to us and have departed to another world, the so-called Parental Saturdays. There are several of them in a year, and all but one (May 9 - Commemoration of the Dead Warriors) have a rolling date:

 Meat-Pass Saturday (Ecumenical Parental Saturday) March 5, 2016.

 Saturday Trinity (Saturday before the feast of the Trinity). June 18, 2016.

 Saturday Dimitrievskaya (Saturday before the day of memory of Dmitry Thessalonica, which is celebrated on November 8). November 5, 2016.

In addition to Parental Saturdays, the departed are commemorated in the temple at every divine service - at the proskomidia, the part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it. Before the Liturgy, you can submit notes "about commemoration." The note writes the name with which the person was baptized, in the genitive case.

How is it remembered for 9 days? How do they remember for 40 days? How to remember for half a year? How to remember for a year?

Six months - such a church commemoration does not exist. But there will be nothing wrong if you remember for six months, for example, when you come to the temple to pray.

An anniversary is a day of remembrance when we - those who loved a person - gather together. The Lord commanded us: Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them (Matt. 18:20). And joint commemoration, when we read a prayer for relatives and friends who are no longer with us, is a bright, sonorous testimony before the Lord that the dead are not forgotten, that they are loved.

Should I celebrate my birthday?

Is it possible to bury suicides? How to remember suicides?

The question of the funeral service and church commemoration of suicides is a very ambiguous one. The fact is that the sin of suicide is one of the most serious. This is a sign of a person's distrust of God.

Each such case must be considered separately, because suicides are different - conscious or unconscious, that is, in a state of severe mental disorder. The question of whether it is possible to bury and commemorate in the church a baptized person who committed suicide lies entirely with the responsibility of the ruling bishop. If a tragedy happened to one of your loved ones, you need to come to the ruling bishop of the area where the deceased lived and ask permission for the funeral. The bishop will consider this question and give you an answer.
As for home prayer, you can certainly remember the person who committed suicide. But the most important thing is to do good deeds in his honor and memory.

What can be remembered? Is it possible to change vodka? Why are they commemorated with pancakes?

Funeral feasts, memorial meals, came to us from time immemorial. But in ancient times they looked different. It was a treat, a feast not for the relatives of the deceased, but for the poor, crippled, orphans, that is, those who need help and will never be able to arrange such a meal for themselves.

Unfortunately, over time, feast turned from a work of mercy into an ordinary home feast, and often with heavy drinking ...

Of course, such libations have nothing to do with a real Christian commemoration and cannot affect the posthumous fate of the deceased in any way.

How to remember the unbaptized?

Unbaptized relatives can be remembered by praying for them at home and doing good deeds in their honor and memory. Try to change your life for the better, be faithful to Christ, remembering all the good things that the one who died unbaptized did in his life.

How are Muslims remembered? How are Jews remembered? How are Catholics remembered?

In this matter, it makes no difference whether the deceased was a Muslim, a Catholic or a Jew. They are not in the bosom of the Orthodox Church, therefore they are commemorated as unbaptized. Their names cannot be written in notes for the proskomedia (the proskomedia is the part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it), but you can do good deeds in their memory and pray at home.

How to commemorate the dead in the temple?

Proskomidia is a part of the Divine Liturgy that precedes it. At the proskomedia, bread and wine are prepared for the future Sacrament of Communion - the transfer of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. It not only prepares the future Body of Christ (the Lamb - a large prosphora) and the future Blood of Christ for the Sacrament (wine), but also reads a prayer for Christians - living or dead. For the Mother of God, the saints and us, ordinary believers, particles are taken out of the prosphora. Pay attention when they give you a small prosphora after Communion - it’s as if “someone dug out a piece” from it. This priest takes out particles from the prosphora for each name written in the note "for the proskomedia".

At the end of the Liturgy, pieces of bread, symbolizing the souls of living or dead Christians, are immersed in a bowl of Christ's Blood. The priest at this moment reads the prayer “Wash, O Lord, the sins of those who are remembered here by Thy Blood by the honest prayers of Thy saints.”

Also in the temples are special memorial services - requiems. You can submit a separate note for a memorial service. But it is important not only to submit a note, but also to try to personally attend the service where it will be read. You can find out about the time of this service from the servants of the temple, to whom a note is submitted.

How to commemorate the dead at home?

How to commemorate in a post?

During fasting, there are special days of commemoration of the dead - Parental Saturdays and Sundays, when full (as opposed to shortened on other days of fasting) Divine Liturgies are served. During these divine services, a proskomedia commemoration of the dead is performed, when for each person a piece is taken out of a large prosphora, symbolizing his soul.

How to commemorate the newly deceased?

The newly deceased is also commemorated at the funeral service. The funeral service is supposed to be performed on the third day after death, and it is important that it is carried out not in absentia, but over the body of the deceased. The fact is that all those who loved a person come to the funeral, and their prayer is special, conciliar.

You can also commemorate the newly deceased with a sacrifice. For example, to distribute to the needy his good, solid things - clothes, household items. You can do this from the first day after the death of a person.

When to remember your parents?

How to remember animals?

Animals are not accepted in Christianity. The teaching of the Church says that eternal life is prepared only for man, since only man has a soul for which we pray. published

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