Remembering the deceased in prayer to the Almighty God is an important expression of love and faith. Trisagion services can be done at the time of death, the third day (in honor of the Holy Trinity and Christ's three day burial), the ninth day (in honor of the orders of Angels), the fortieth day (in honor of Christ's 40 days on earth after His Resurrection), three months, six months, nine months, one year, or any time the Orthodox family feels the need. The memorial service is a little longer service that is typically done on the fortieth day. The memorial service requires Koliva or Sitari (Wheat). Koliva or Sitari is the boiled wheat dish that symbolizes the seed of the body that has been placed in this earth to sprout forth new, resurrected life when all the dead are raised at the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Experiences of Theosis are proportional to the purity of man. The more someone is cleansed from the passions, the higher the experience he will receive from God; he sees God just as it was written: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God" (St. Matthew 5:8). When man starts to repent, to confess, and to cry for his sins, he receives the first experiences of God's Grace. Such experiences are first of all tears of repentance, which bring inexpressible joy to the psyche (soul), and then the deep peace which follows this. For this reason, this mourning our sins is called "gladsome mourning," as the Lord also said in His Beatitudes: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted" (St. Matthew 5:4).

The Seventh Sunday after the Great Feast of All-Holy Pascha is observed by the Orthodox Church as the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. This day commemorates the 318 God-bearing Fathers who gathered in the city of Nicaea in 325 A.D. at the request of the Emperor, Saint Constantine the Great, to address the heresy of Arianism together with other issues that concerned the unity of the Church.

Christ installs Himself in the heart of man through the Holy Mysteries (Sacraments): Holy Baptism, Holy Chrismation, Holy Confession and the Divine Eucharist. Those Orthodox Christians who are in communion with Christ have God and His Grace within them, in their hearts, because they have been baptized, chrismated, have confessed and have received Holy Communion.

The Holy Fathers also tell us that Theosis has stages. It begins from the lowest and progresses to the highest. Once we have humility, in order to become cleansed from the passions we start our asceticism by applying the holy commandment of Christ, beginning our daily struggle in Christ with repentance and much patience. The Holy Fathers say that within His commandments God Himself lies hidden. When a Christian observes them out of love and faith in Christ, then he unites with Him.

The Holy Fathers certainly say that within the Church we can attain Theosis (Deification). But at the same time they say Theosis (Deification) is a gift from God, it is not something we can attain on our own. Of course, we must desire, struggle, and prepare ourselves so that we are worthy, capable, and receptive enough to accept and guard this great gift from God, since God does not wish to do anything to us without our freedom, but at the same time, Theosis (Deification) is a gift from God; so therefore the holy Fathers say, on the one hand, that we undergo Theosis (Deification), and on the other hand, that God acts in Theosis (Deification).