All saints day

    Today in the Spirit: All Saints’ Sunday

    Posted on October 26, 2025
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    All Saintsโ€™ Day, celebrated on 1 November every year, is the only โ€œPrincipal Feastโ€ in the Christian Year which can also be observed on the Sunday following that date. It is a commemoration of the intercommunion of living and dead Christians throughout time, those renowned and unknown. Traditionally, the Gospel reading assigned for All Saintsโ€™…

    The Ache of All Saints’ Day

    Posted on November 3, 2015
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    I cannot remember the last All Saints’ Sunday I sat in the pew instead of the chancel. However, this All Saints’ Day, I wasnโ€™t collared and vested, leading the liturgy in the parish I serve. I sat in a pew in another parish because Iโ€™m taking a sabbatical this autumn. Where does an Anglican priest…