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Greetings to new and regular readers! Friends, “Note to the Late Brother” is a real incident from my life. There is nothing fictional in this story. Sometimes inexplicable things happen in people’s lives: some incredible coincidences or mysterious phenomena that have not yet been explained.
A little about the soul
It has been proven that the soul of a deceased person leaves his body. Thousands of people who have experienced clinical death have told about this. Within a period of no more than 3-5 minutes after cardiac arrest, these people saw their bodies from above or flew in a tunnel.
During a complex operation, my husband “watched” the doctors from above, then his soul flew down the corridor of the hospital. Life was in doubt, but he managed to return!
Alas, after biological death, no one returns, therefore there is no answer to the question: is there life after death?
Days of remembrance of the deceased
Body and soul are one. But the body is mortal, the soul is not. After the death of the body, the soul has to go through ordeals – a kind of exams. In Orthodoxy, the days of commemoration of the dead are traditionally distinguished: the third, ninth and fortieth.
The third day
For three days the soul of the deceased, accompanied by a guardian angel, is in the world of the living. For three days the soul is tied to the body, and it will have nowhere to go if the body is buried earlier.
On the 3rd day after the death of a person, a funeral is usually performed. This has a spiritual relationship to the Resurrection of Christ on the third day after His death. For various reasons, it is allowed to bury the deceased later. For example, 4 or 5 days after death.
Ninth day
In the angelic hierarchy there are nine ranks of angels who will be the protectors of the deceased at the Heavenly Judgment. Angels, as lawyers, ask God for mercy on the newly departed, whose soul has traveled through the afterlife since the day of death.
Fortieth day
According to Orthodox beliefs, on the 40th day, after going through the ordeals and contemplating all the horrors and torments that await sinners in hell, the soul appears before God for the third time (the first time – on the third day, the second time – on the ninth).
It is at this moment that the fate of the soul is decided – where it will have to stay until the moment of the Last Judgment, in hell or in the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, all forty days one should not weep, but earnestly pray for the soul, for the atonement of the sins of the deceased.
Living people need to go through their Earthly path, not allowing sin: do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not have abortions, do not envy … Friends, we are all sinners, but we must remember that for all atrocities the time of reckoning will come.
Message to the late brother
In 2010, my brother Vladimir died from an accident. A wonderful, kind and religious person. That early morning, when the niece reported the tragedy, will be remembered forever. After the terrible news, there was a strong shock, then tears and unbearable mental pain.
My brother Vladimir Mikhailovich Erokhin 1952-2010
It was not easy to gain strength to inform my mother about the death of her son. You can’t tell it. That year she was 90 years old … “Mom, today we have a bad morning …”. The whole apartment was filled with a heartbreaking cry, then weeping and groaning … Those who have lost loved ones and loved ones will understand how difficult it is to survive.
After my brother’s funeral, my mother and I lit a candle every evening and read the prayers “Akathist for the one who died”. “Akathist” should be read aloud (prayed) daily for 40 days. And we prayed.
On one of these evenings, I don’t remember exactly which day (period from 9th to 40th), after prayer, I suddenly wrote a note to my deceased brother. She took a blank sheet of paper and a pencil. The text was like this: “Little Johnny, brother, if you come to us, write us at least some sign …”.
Before going to bed, I left a note on the table in front of my brother’s portrait, and put a pencil on top of the note. The next morning I couldn’t believe my eyes! The sign was left !!! At the bottom of the text, three centimeters away, there was a pencil mark in the form of a comma (5 mm)!
How to explain this fact ?! How could a disembodied soul do this? Incredible. I keep this note.
Dear friends, what do you think about this case? Write in the comments to the article “Note to the late brother: a real incident from life.” Have such stories happened in your life?