Editing All Souls' Day (section)

===Eastern Catholic, Eastern Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox===
{{Main|Saturday of Souls}}

[[File:Soul Saturday Kollyva offerings.jpg|right|thumb|Kollyva offerings of boiled wheat blessed liturgically on Soul Saturday (''Psychosabbaton'')]]
[[Saturday of Souls]] (or Soul Saturday) is a day set aside for the commemoration of the dead within the [[liturgical year]] of the [[Eastern Orthodox]], Eastern Lutheran and Byzantine Catholic Churches.<ref name="Economic2022"/> Saturday is a traditional day of prayer for the dead, because Christ lay dead in the [[Holy Sepulchre|Tomb]] on Saturday.<ref name="GOArch">{{cite web |title=Saints and Feasts: Saturday of Souls |url=https://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints?contentid=1017&PCode=MEATSA&DT=02/22/2020 |website=www.goarch.org |publisher=Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |access-date=6 November 2020 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418141452/https://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints?contentid=1017&PCode=MEATSA&DT=02/22/2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

These days are devoted to prayer for departed relatives and others among the faithful who would not be commemorated specifically as saints. The [[Divine Services]] on these days have special hymns added to them to commemorate the departed. There is often a [[Panikhida]] (Memorial Service) either after the [[Divine Liturgy]] on Saturday morning or after [[Vespers]] on Friday evening, for which [[Koliva]] (a dish made of boiled wheatberries or rice and honey) is prepared and placed on the Panikhida table. After the Service, the priest blesses the Koliva. It is then eaten as a memorial by all present.<ref name="orthodoxpath">{{cite web |author=Panteleimon of Antinoes |title=Saturday of the Souls |url=https://www.orthodoxpath.org/catechisms-and-articles/saturday-of-the-souls/ |website=The Orthodox Path |access-date=6 November 2020 |date=9 March 2013 |archive-date=20 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020062026/https://www.orthodoxpath.org/catechisms-and-articles/saturday-of-the-souls/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Radonitsa====
{{Main|Radonitsa}}
Another Memorial Day in the East, Radonitsa, does not fall on a Saturday, but on either Monday or Tuesday of the second week after Pascha (Easter).<ref name="Averky">{{cite web |title=The Liturgics of Archbishop Averky |url=http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/liturgics_averky_e.htm#_Toc104768210 |website=www.holytrinitymission.org |access-date=6 November 2020 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726153144/http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/liturgics_averky_e.htm#_Toc104768210 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bulgakov Handbook">S. V. Bulgakov, ''Handbook for Church Servers'', 2nd ed., 1274 pp. (Kharkov, 1900), pp. 586–589. Tr. by Archpriest Eugene D. Tarris © 2007.</ref> Radonitsa does not have special hymns for the dead at the Divine Services. Instead a Panikhida will follow the Divine Liturgy, and then all will bring paschal foods to the cemeteries to greet the departed with the joy of the Resurrection.<ref name="Averky"/>