All Saints Day, 1 November
This Sunday 1 November is All Saints Day. No Christian is solitary. Through baptism we become members of one 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.
On this day we may also pause to give thanks for the saints we have encountered in our own lives. Those whose faith revealed to us more of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.