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Alan Burns

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happy All Saints day
« on: November 01, 2022, 10:47:03 AM »
Today we celebrate the great feast of All Saints.  A welcome respite from the over commercialised, over hyped celebration of yesterday's hallowed eve.  We are reminded that it is the feast of all saints - not just those beatified by the church.  It is a celebration for all those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith.  And a reminder that we are all called to be saints by accepting Jesus Christ into our lives as our Lord and Saviour.
The truth will set you free  - John 8:32
Truth is not an abstraction, but a person - Edith Stein
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - CS Lewis
Joy is the Gigantic Secret of Christians - GK Chesterton

Anchorman

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Re: happy All Saints day
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2022, 04:31:23 PM »
You don't need a church to make a saint. The original meaning of the word - someone set apart by God - applies to all who accept Him.
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."