All posts tagged All Saints Day
A Strange Blessing for the Saints
by Timothy Teuscher The appointed Gospel reading for All Saints’ Day, November 1, includes the opening words from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount called ‘The Beatitudes,’ in which He speaks of the blessedness, the spiritual well-being, of saints—of what it means to be saints,…
The Comfort of the Communion of Saints
by Robert Mohns A couple of years ago I had the great blessing of walking along the Napoleon route of the Camino Santiago de Compostela in the northern Iberian Peninsula of Spain. One day in a local church, I made the observation that I had…
Remembering the departed faithful
by Robert Bugbee For all the saints who from their labours rest… In the old days, especially in villages and out in the country, on your way into church on Sunday, you walked past gravestones. The church had its own cemetery. Sometimes you noticed upturned…
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