“Prayers, memorial services, liturgies, alms are very much to the benefit of the departed ones. You should pray more for the departed ones than the living. Because there is nothing they can do on their own any more, but we can help them by attracting God’s mercy through praying and the other means we have mentioned so that their state can be improved or even change, because they are still under judgment.”
(Elder St Paisios, Spiritual Counsels)