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Feast with friends, sing with saints
All Saints’ Day (1 November)
All Saints’ Day falls on 1 November, and is largely irrelevant to our contemporary culture. It happens to be the day after 31 October, or Hallowe’en, now a massive event for children and families. It is also the day before 2 November – or All Souls’ Day – when many churches hold annual services where people can remember those who have died, recently or long ago. This has grown significantly in recent years. However, All Saints’ Day can be transferred to a Sunday or celebrated on 1 November itself, and it offers an opportunity to pick up the positive themes of light overcoming darkness and good triumphing over evil. It also looks forward with an awe-inspiring vision of eternal worship, and adds to the sense of expectation as the church year draws to an end, and we begin again waiting for the Lord to come in the season of Advent...
Taken from Festivals Together by Sandra Millar
All Saints’ Day (1 November)
All Saints’ Day falls on 1 November, and is largely irrelevant to our contemporary culture. It happens to be the day after 31 October, or Hallowe’en, now a massive event for children and families. It is also the day before 2 November – or All Souls’ Day – when many churches hold annual services where people can remember those who have died, recently or long ago. This has grown significantly in recent years. However, All Saints’ Day can be transferred to a Sunday or celebrated on 1 November itself, and it offers an opportunity to pick up the positive themes of light overcoming darkness and good triumphing over evil. It also looks forward with an awe-inspiring vision of eternal worship, and adds to the sense of expectation as the church year draws to an end, and we begin again waiting for the Lord to come in the season of Advent...
Taken from Festivals Together by Sandra Millar
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