Come join us Tuesday, October 31 at 6:30pm for the Vigil Feast of All Saints and for renewal of our baptismal vows. (Nursery is provided). We encourage kids to come dressed as their favorite saint from Scripture or the history of the church. Adults, if you want to come as your favorite saint, feel free to do so ;). We also encourage folks to bring pictures of loved ones who have died in Christ or icons of saints or martyrs as a way of celebrating the grace of God in their lives.
All Saints is one of seven principal feasts that we celebrate as Christians in the Anglican way. All Saints is a feast where we celebrate the triumph of Christ in the lives of his faithful saints and martyrs, our mommas and pappas, brothers and sisters in the faith. All Saints is a feast to remember the great cloud of witnesses that have demonstrated following the way of Jesus is possible with the Lord as our helper and rock. All Saints is also a baptismal feast to renew our baptismal vows, reaffirming God’s gift of new life through baptism that brings us into the communion of saints (Revelation 7:3).
At the Vigil Feast of All Saints, we will renew our baptismal vows (see Book of Common Prayer 2019, pp. 194–196) in the following ways:
- Responding to questions that renew our vows to renounce the world, the flesh, and the devil and embrace our threefold commitment to Christ, Holy Scripture, and obedience to God’s will and commandments.
- Renewing our belief in the confession of our faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed.
- Receiving the tangible symbol of a sprinkling of consecrated water as a Minister exhorts us to remember our baptism.