All Souls’ Day
Appointed Lessons
Wisdom 3:1–9 * Psalm 130 * 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 * John 5:24-27
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and used by permission.
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Classic Texts
Augustine: You Will Rest in UsÂ
“When our work in this life is done, we too shall rest in you in the Sabbath of eternal life, though our works are very good only because you have given us the grace to perform them. In that eternal Sabbath you will rest in us, just as now you work in us. The rest that we shall enjoy will be yours, just as the work that we now do is your work done through us.”Â
Article
Boone Porter: Liturgy for the Dead
“In traditional Anglicanism, the communion of the living and the dead in the liturgy was nonetheless vivid. In the ordinary old fashioned English parish, the church itself was hundreds of years old and bore much evidence of the usage of successive generations. The walls were usually lined with memorial plaques and inscriptions, and the flagstone floors sometimes covered layers of skeletons beneath.”Â
