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On this day, after [[Divine Liturgy]], the priest will celebrate a Panikhida in the church, after which he will bless the paschal foods that the faithful have brought with them. The clergy, with [[incense]] and candles, will then go in [[Crucession|procession]] with the cross, followed by the faithful, to visit the graves of departed believers either in churchyards or in cemeteries. At the graves, paschal hymns are chanted together with the usual [[Ektenia|litanies]] for the departed, concluding with the moving "Memory Eternal" (''Вѣчнаѧ памѧть'',''Viechnaia pamiat'').
The paschal foods will then be consumed with joy by the friends and relatives of the deceased. It is common to place an [[Easter egg]], a symbol of Christ's coming forth from the [[Holy Sepulchre|Tomb]], on the graves of the departed, saluting them with the traditional paschal greeting: "Christ is Risen!" This practice is both to remind the faithful of the [[General Resurrection]] of the dead, and to "announce the Resurrection" of Christ to the departed.
==Customs==