November is a season of memorials and remembrance, here are the upcoming services.Sunday 30 October, 10.30am - All Age All Saints Communion in HallTuesday 1 November, 7.30pm - All Saints Day Holy Communion in ChapelSunday 6 November, 10.30am - All Age All Souls Memorial Service in CHURCHSunday 13 November, 10.30am - Remembrance Sunday Service in HallSunday 20 November, 10.30am - Christ the King service in HallThe following is taken from the Church of Englands introduction to the season of All SaintstideNo Christian is solitary. Through baptism we become members one of another in Christ, members of a company of saints whose mutual belonging transcends death:One family, we dwell in him,one Church, above, beneath;though now divided by the stream,the narrow stream of death.(Charles Wesley)All Saints’ Day and the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed on All Souls’ Day both celebrate this mutual belonging. All Saints’ Day celebrates men and women in whose lives the Church as a whole has seen the grace of God powerfully at work. It is an opportunity to give thanks for that grace, and for the wonderful ends to which it shapes a human life; it is a time to be encouraged by the example of the saints and to recall that sanctity may grow in the ordinary circumstances, as well as the extraordinary crises, of human living. The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed celebrates the saints in a more local and intimate key. It allows us to remember with thanksgiving before God those whom we have known more directly: those who gave us life, or who nurtured us in faith.Redemption is a work of God’s grace; it is God who redeems us in Christ and there is nothing to be done beyond what Christ has done. But we still wait for the final consummation of God’s new creation in Christ; those who are Christ’s, whether or not they have passed through death, are joined in prayer that God’s kingdom will be revealed finally and in all its fullness. We also sense that it is a fearful thing to come before the unutterable goodness and holiness of God, even for those who are redeemed in Christ; that it is searing as well as life-giving to experience God’s mercy; and this instinct also is expressed in the liturgy of All Souls’ Day.Remembrance Sunday goes on to explore the theme of memory, both corporate and individual, as we confront issues of war and peace, loss and self-gift, memory and forgetting.The annual cycle of the Church’s year now ends with the Feast of Christ the King. The year that begins with the hope of the coming Messiah ends with the proclamation of his universal sovereignty. The ascension of Christ has revealed him to be Lord of earth and heaven, and final judgement is one of his proper kingly purposes. The Feast of Christ the King returns us to the Advent theme of judgement, with which the cycle once more begins.
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