11/01/2026
Friends
This Sunday we will celebrate the Feast of All Saint’s Day. Our feast day is the mixing of people and places, of Mediterranean Faith with Northern European Souls. And in its many forms and unique expressions, there is something dynamic about this Autumn Season, cooling nights, crisp brilliant sun eclipsed by longer nights, crunchy leaves and the looming winter.
They gathered to name their loss and to name how they still felt them present, how they saw the people they had lost in one another and how they remember them in moments big and small. They gathered to name what scared them most, they even dressed up as ghosts, goblins and whatever terrified them and in grace, they acknowledged that they don’t have to go it alone.
See the grace of All Saint’s day isn’t the sugar high you get from Halloween candy; it’s the gift of one another. It is the gift that in the loss and in the hard spaces, in the season of longer nights with winter’s howling winds on the way, you don’t have to go it alone. The grace of All Saint’s day is that in remembering, we can gather and give thanks for those who have journeyed before us. And as the nights get longer, we light candles and hang twinkle lights, prepare our homes and set up the photos of the people we miss.
This Sunday, bring your relics (those gifts from the past) and bring your photos. We will remember the folks who taught us and loved us and nurtured us. We will light a candle together and we have plenty to share.
Blessings
Rev Debra
