| Before
the feast, the priest uses incense and chants in order to bless the
food. |
| Using
the wine and colivă, the priest and participants perform
one last veşnica pomenire. |
| The
blessings complete, family and friends serve a variety of foods as alms
for the deceased. |
| Although
the funeral is complete at the end of the burial feast it is not the
end of the death rituals. At certain intervals after the day of death,
family and friends gather to give alms, or pomană, for
the deceased. As family perform the pomană at three,
six, nine, and 40 days; three, six, and nine months; and every year
for seven years; and in some cases of extraordinary dedication, every
year, in perpetuity, it is unlikely that the deceased will be forgotten
soon. |
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