Requiem Services

 Requiem Service or Hokehankisd is a short memorial  service drawn from the Canon for the Office of the Dead (performed daily  during the Night Hours, the first prayer service of the liturgical  day).  For historical reasons, it has become customary to perform this  service immediately following Divine Liturgy on Sunday mornings.  
              Although the Armenian Church's prayers and hymns for the  deceased are performed for all Apostolic Christians who have fallen  asleep, it has become customary for the faithful to request that names  of deceased loved ones be mentioned during the prayers.  
            Currently, the Requiem service is offered every Sunday.  On the five  major feast days of Nativity, Pascha (Easter), Transfiguration,  Assumption and Exaltation of the Holy Cross, as well as on the lesser  feasts of Palm Sunday and Pentecost, Requiem service is offered on the  following day, which is designated as "Remembrance of the Dead."