All Saints Day

This web page holds examples and illustrations of the ideas for extending our All Saints proclamation throughout the worship service and the day. It accompanies the essay by D. Foy Christopherson for All Saints Sunday (Nov. 2, 2008) found at www.workingpreacher.org

pdf files

Order for Visiting a Cemetery
Sample Litany of Names
Sample Invitation
Sample Newsletter Article
Sample Hymn with Litany of Names
Sample Card to Submit Names

image files

List of names with wreath
List of names with candles
Book of Remembrance
Book of Remembrance on altar
Book of Remembrance on altar, close up
Candles and List of Names
List of names from balcony
List of names from floor
Cemetery Visit

link to funeral planning worksheet


All Saints Day at Central Lutheran Church, 2007

SAMPLE BULLETIN CONTENT

As the assembly enters members are provided with a card on which they may write the names of persons who have died in the faith. These names will be read out during the Hymn of the Day.

During the prelude members of the assembly are invited to come forward to the chancel to place their cards of names in a basket near the font and to light a candle in memory of those persons who have died in the faith.

During the prelude, members of the assembly are invited to come forward to the chancel to light a candle in memory of those persons who have died in the faith.

"For All the Saints" (LBW)
verses 1-3: congregation
verses 4-5: choir; congregation joins on alleluias
organ ostinato: choir joins or hums pp on alleluias while the ministers read out the names of the faithful departed
verses 6: choir; congregation joins on alleluias
verses 7-8: all ff