Babies listen to the heart beat of the mother during the 9-10 months of pregnancy. They feel warm comfortable and are totally dependent on the woman who carries them. It is so beautiful to feel when they turn around or punch You from the inside, ticklish. They trust one so unconditionally, recognizing the smell, the voice. All of this trust as well as all of the trust that children give to their parents is sometimes cruelly betrayed.

Let us now think of them and on all the other beautiful innocent creatures which suffer or had to suffer of being abandoned or killed

Quote: oca.org/orthodoxy/prayers/for-the-departed

For the Departed

O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who hast trampled down death and overthrown the Devil, and given life to Thy world, do Thou, the same Lord, give rest to the souls of Thy departed servants in a place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away. Pardon every transgression which they have committed, whether by word or deed or thought. For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind; because there is no man who lives yet does not sin, for Thou only art without sin, Thy righteousness is to all eternity, and Thy word is truth.

For Thou are the Resurrection, the Life, and the Repose of Thy servants who have fallen asleep, O Christ our God, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, together with Thy Father, who is from everlasting, and Thine all-holy, good, and life-creating Spirit, now and ever unto ages of ages. Amen.

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"place of brightness, a place of refreshment, a place of repose, where all sickness, sighing, and sorrow have fled away" -  Wipe out the tears o God our Father, take into Your arms and give comfort and peace to those who could find none in the world. 

Worse then anymals did we become...