[How and When We Ought to Celebrate the Memorials of the Faithful Departed, and that We Ought Then to Give Somewhat Out of Their Goods to the Poor. ]
XLII. Let the third day of the departed be celebrated with psalms, and lessons, and prayers, on account of Him who arose within the space of three days; and let the ninth day be celebrated in remembrance of the living, and of the departed; and the fortieth 189 The Syriac and a Greek marginal reading give “the thirtieth.” day according to the ancient pattern: for so did the people lament Moses, and the anniversary day in memory of him. 190 Deut. xxxiv. 8. [Comp. Aug., Confess. (ed. Migne), p. 778.] And let alms be given to the poor out of his goods for a memorial of him. 191 [The “month’s mind” was anciently of this sort, with no reference to purgatorial penalties. “Credo jam feceris quod rogo.”—Aug.]
[42] Ἐπιτελείσθω δὲ τρίτα τῶν κεκοιμημένων ἐν ψαλμοῖς καὶ προσευχαῖς διὰ τὸν διὰ τριῶν ἡμερῶν ἐγερθέντα, καὶ ἔνατα εἰς ὑπόμνησιν τῶν περιόντων καὶ τῶν κεκοιμημένων, καὶ τριακοστὰ κατὰ τὸν παλαιὸν τύπον: Μωϋσῆν γὰρ οὕτως ὁ λαὸς ἐπένθησεν, καὶ ἐνιαύσια ὑπὲρ μνείας αὐτοῦ. Καὶ διδόσθω ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῦ πένησιν εἰς ἀνάμνησιν αὐτοῦ.