The Vigil of the Slush
The Memorial of the Faithful Departed
The Vigil of the Slush is the great memorial day of the dead — the night the faithful keep vigil and pray for those still being cooled in the The Slush before they pass to the White Horizon. Falling in the grey end of the year (near the rites of dying’s season), it is marked by the silver-grey liturgical color of penitence and the lighting of cold-lamps at the graves and relics of the departed.
Observance and Dispute
The faithful name their dead, offer the The Cold Communion for them, and “help cool” them by prayer and almsgiving — the practice expounded in On the Keeping of the Dead (Treatise). It is kept solemnly by the Orthodox and Hoarfrost communions; the Reformed, denying the The Slush, keep the day instead as a simple remembrance of the dead without intercession. Either way it answers the warm fear of death with the cold hope of the Reforging.