All Saints

Categories: feast-days, interesting-sites

Date: 18 June 2006 12:04:49

In this celebration, then, we reverently honour and call blessed all the Righteous, the Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Shepherds, Teachers, and Holy Monastics, both men and women alike, known and unknown, who have been added to the choirs of the Saints and shall be added, from the time of Adam until the end of the world, who have been perfected in piety and have glorified God by their holy lives. All these, as well as the orders of the Angels, and especially our most holy Lady and Queen, the Ever-virgin Theotokos Mary, do we honour today, setting their life before us as an example of virtue, and entreating them to intercede in our behalf with God, Whose grace and boundless mercy be with us all. Amen.

Reading from the Synaxarion

Today was particularly wonderful also as our priest and his family returned from their holiday and pilgrimage overseas: it was great to see them again and a blessing to have him back to celebrate Divine Liturgy with us.

And on the topic of Saints, a Flickr contact from Russia has some wonderful photos of Jacob's Well, the place of St Paul's execution and a relic of the Holy Cross, among others. Take a look.

A blessed Feast of All Saints to all!