memorial meal
Post-burial gathering food
A memorial meal is a gathering to eat together in remembrance of someone who has died, typically held after a funeral or on the anniversary of a death.
The shared food provides comfort and community during grief.
Some religious traditions prescribe specific memorial meals, such as the Orthodox Christian practice of blessing wheat and fruit on the fortieth day after death.
- funeralService honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- passed awayDied, said gently
- receptionAct of receiving guests
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
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- ritual foodscommunion wafer, communion wine, communion wafers, sacramental wine, seder
- Slavic traditionsOrthodox Christmas, caroling, mummers, blini
memorial mealwedding banquet
Celebratory meal after matrimony
wedding reception · victory feast · birthday dinner · graduation dinner · anniversary dinner
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