All Saints – 1 November

Through baptism we become members one of another in Christ,
members of a company of saints whose mutual belonging transcends death:
All Saints’ Day celebrates men and women in whose lives the Church as a whole has seen the grace of God powerfully at work. It is an opportunity to give thanks for that grace, and for the wonderful ends to which it shapes a human life; it is a time to be encouraged by the example of the saints and to recall that sanctity may grow in the ordinary circumstances, as well as the extraordinary crises, of human living.
‘We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses,’ (Hebrews 12.1)

God of holiness,
your glory is proclaimed in every age:
as we rejoice in the faith of your saints,
inspire us to follow their example
with boldness and joy;