A Moleben is either a Service of Supplication or of Thanksgiving.
These services can be read privately at home or all together at Church.
In God and in His Church there is no division between the living and the departed, but all are one in the love of the Father. Whether we are alive or whether we are dead, as members of the Church we still belong to the same family, and still have a duty to bear one another’s burdens. Therefore just as Orthodox Christians here on earth pray for one another and ask for one another’s prayers, so they pray for the faithful departed and ask the faithful departed to pray for them. Death cannot sever the bond of mutual love which links the members of the Church together. ~ Fr. Kallistos Ware
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. ~ Romans 14:7-9
Below is a Moleben Service of Supplication to St. John Maximovitch, a recent Saint, asking for his prayers before God – for God to Help us.
Moleben to St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
