лития

Noun

 * 1)  lity, name for several prayers in Eastern Orthodoxy:
 * 2) a special prayer for the dead, performed during a funeral or during the commemoration of the deceased
 * 3) part of the nightly vigil, following the pleading of the litany
 * 4) a public prayer, performed at the time of a disaster or in memory of a disaster
 * 5)  a solemn prayer or song