All Saints Sunday sermon
Good morning, Church! Good morning Saints! Today we celebrate the feast of All Saints. Praise the Lord: Alleluia! It’s a day when we remember all God’s saints! So first off, what’s a Saint? Any thoughts? Or does anyone know the names of any saints? Saints: people who have lived lives which especially show God’s love, and point other people to God’s love in a special way. People we can learn from. People who led very Jesus-Shaped lives. People who can be our heavenly friends. Inspiring us and praying for us in heaven. Saints: all God’s holy people: the Letter to the Ephesians is addressed to ‘the saints in Ephesus’ and in Acts we hear Ananaias complaining about Saul (who became the Apostle Saint Paul) persecuting ‘the saints in Jerusalem’: God’s ordinary people like you and me: God’s extraordinary royal priesthood as our own patron Saint St Peter puts it. And that example of Saul who was really really mean to the saints, the first people who believed in Jesus, and then became one ...