November 1, 2021

It’s All Saints’ Day! Here is an insight from a Thornton Wilder character in The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It’s perfect of All Saints’ Day.

“She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armour of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. They were the sons and daughters of Adam….”

Not what you were expecting for All Saints’ Day? Being a saint has nothing to do with behavior, and everything to do with the robes of righteousness draped around us by Jesus Christ and His death on the cross.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8)

“Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Christ the King – BCP)