Sunday 1 November 2015

All Saints' Day

Today is one of the great Feasts of the Church's year: the feast of All Saints.

We honour all those who have achieved their heavenly goal, known and especially unknown; and we ask for their intercession as we, the Church militant, struggle on.

Here is a musical treat, to celebrate: Victoria's wonderful setting of O Quam Gloriosum Est:







O quam gloriosum est regnum,
in quo cum Christo gaudent omnes Sancti!
Amicti stolis albis,
sequuntur Agnum, quocumque ierit.


Oh, how glorious is the kingdom
in which all the saints rejoice with Christ!
Clad in robes of white,
they follow the Lamb wherever he may go.

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