Happy All Saints Day
Dear All Saints and St Marys
This weekend the Church marks the Festival of All Saints. (Or All Hallows as it is also known)
It is a festival that celebrates all the "Holy/Hallowed" people that the church wishes to honour and remember for their faith. It is a feast that can act as an encouragement to our own faith, by looking at the examples of others who have gone before us.
Originally this feast was celebrated in May, but it was moved to November 1st, where combined with All Hallows Eve (Halloween) and followed by All Souls Day (Nov 2nd) we have a three-day combination called All Hallowtide.
It is a feast which I have always found to be hopeful and light filled, despite the shorter days and longer nights. In remembering those stories and lives of the Saints, I am reminded that heaven and earth are not quite as far apart as I might think. That there is a deep connection between the two. That the Saints as the hymn says "who from their labours rest" pass to us the joy of living here on earth and continuing the work of Jesus so that it can be as we pray "on earth as it is in heaven".
May we all have a blessed All Hallowstide.
Services this Sunday 1st November are as follows
10:00am | Creative Church | St Marys |
10:30am | Holy Communion and Junior Church | All Saints |
6:30pm | Choral Evensong | St Marys |
THE WEEK AHEAD
Mon 2nd Nov | 10:30am | Tiny Tots | All Saints |
Tue 3rd Nov | 10:30am | Music For Toddlers | St Marys |
Wed 4th Nov | 9:00am | Celtic Morning Prayer | All Saints |
Thu 5th Nov | 10:00am | Holy Communion | St Marys |
Fri 6th Nov | 11:00am | Living After Loss | St Marys |
Sat 7th Nov | 10:00am | Coffee Morning & Book Sale with Bristol Repair Cafe | All Saints |
12:00noon | Saturday Lunches | St Marys | |
Sun 8th Nov | 8:00am | Holy Communion | All Saints |
10:00am | Remembrance Sunday Holy Communion and Act of Remembrance in the Park | St Marys | |
10:30am | Remembrance All Age Service | All Saints | |
7:15pm | Generations | All Saints |
Rev'd Lizzie
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