November 5, 2023 All Saints Day (transferred)

<p><strong>Entrance Hymn #287 <em>For All The Saints </em></strong><em>(verses 1-4)</em></p><p><em> </em><strong>Sequence Hymn #656 <em>Blest Are The Pure In Heart</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em>Offertory Anthem <em>Pie Jesu (Rutter) </em></strong><em>Lawren Casagrande, Soloist</em></p><p><em> </em><strong>Communion Anthem <em>They Shall Soar Like Eagles (Manzo)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em>Post-Communion Hymn #625 <em>Ye Holy Angels Bright </em></strong></p><p><strong><em><span class="ql-cursor"></span></em>THE COLLECT OF THE DAY </strong>Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that you have prepared for those who truly love you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory everlasting. <em>Amen. </em></p><p><strong>FIRST READING <em>Revelation 7:9-17 </em></strong>A Reading from the Revalation to John. After this I, John, looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!" And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, singing, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen." Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?" I said to him, "Sir, you are the one that knows." Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the b