Dear Friends,
It’s a full weekend at All Saints, a weekend when we hold sorrow and joy in one hand.
Today, Friday, we will commend long-time and beloved parishioner Jim Crandall to God at a funeral at 2 pm. There will be a visitation at 1 pm in the church and a reception afterwards in the parish hall.
On Saturday we celebrate a wedding (the third of four fall weddings here this season!).
Then, on Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of St. Francis, the last day of the Season of Creation with our furry, feathered, and scaly friends at the 9 and 11 am services, blessing the creatures who bless our lives. All reasonably well-behaved pets welcome. Pets made nervous by sitting in church can be blessed at 10:30 am on the front lawn. The 8 am service remains fur, feather, and scale free.
All Saints is a place where we can celebrate the fullness, the complexity, of our whole lives, as we worship God, comfort one another in our grief, and celebrate together in our joys.
See you in church!
Faithfully, Suzanne
P.S. Elizabeth Moriarty, former parishioner, good friend of All Saints, and organizer of our Greenlining Campaign will be ordained priest tomorrow at Grace Episcopal Church in Manchester, NH at 11 am (EST). You can see the invitation below, along with a link to view the ordination!