It is the practice in various Christian communities to recite memorial prayers on the third, seventh, ninth, and fortieth day after a person's death, and then six months and a year after his or her decease. These services, held in church, include the regular Mass, with the addition at the end of excerpts from the Requiem. The Greek Catholics in Haifa arrange a memorial service on the first Sunday after a person's death, which they call it-thalet wit-thase ("the third and the ninth"). Before the service, family members display a picture of the deceased behind a tray containing stamped loaves of bread. Though not consecrated, these loaves, imprinted with the stamp of holy bread, have received the priest's benediction and, when distributed to the worshipers, constitute a blessing and a prayer for the departed soul's eternal rest.