Memory is a priceless gift.
If not for memory, every day would feel like we were starting over.
We would be deprived of our identity, sense of belonging, and familiarity with our world.
But, perhaps most tragically, our connection with the people we love would be lost the moment they left our lives.
We feel the power of memory in our capacity to learn and grow in wisdom and knowledge.
We feel it in the capacity to travel back through time to enjoy places, people, and experiences that we have long since left behind.
And we feel it in the way love endures beyond distance and even death.
Almost every spiritual path in our world includes rituals and prayers
that teach us to remember mindfully and intentionally.
And almost every culture in the world includes specific times and practices
for remembering and honouring loved ones who have died.
In the Christian Calendar, Allhallowtide is set apart as a time for remembering the saints—those who embodied the vision and values of Christ and set an example of love, generosity, truth, and justice for others to follow. The triduum (three days) of Halloween, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls’ Day offers a remarkable opportunity to honour the saints whose lives have impacted ours and to remember the sacred sainthood in all God-created, God-imaged, and God-beloved people. While the focus is on those who have died, the spirit of Allhallowtide calls us to remember all those whose lives have affirmed, challenged, and empowered us.
Just a few short weeks after Allhallowtide, Thanksgiving, which was originally an American festival but is now celebrated across the world, invites us to remember all the goodness we enjoy and to be intentional about practicing gratitude. When we bring the practices of thanksgiving and remembering together, they create a potent practice that inspires and sustains us in these difficult times.
With this in mind, I am excited to introduce you to:
We Remember With Thanks…
A new Liturgical and Devotional Guide from Sacredise
for a season of remembrance and thanksgiving
Spanning the four weeks from the Sunday after Allhallowtide to the Reign of Christ (just before Thanksgiving),
We Remember With Thanks… invites us to end our Liturgical Year with thanksgiving for those who have loved us, been generous toward us, spoken the truth to us, and embodied God’s dream of love and justice.
And then, as we remember these saints (canonised or not, alive or not, known to us personally or not), we are called to follow their example and live as saints ourselves.
It’s a short, four-week series, but it’s the perfect way to integrate into our lives everything we have learned through the last Liturgical Year,
and to enter the new year with confidence, courage, and a deeper commitment to the way of Christ.
We Remember With Thanks...
is available in three options:
WE REMEMBER WITH THANKS...
Liturgical Guide includes:
● Purpose written prayers and liturgies for every Sunday of the series;
● Reflections to inspire your sermons;
● Gathering, Responding, and Integrating liturgies to make your worship inspiring, participative, and transforming;
● A theme-based Table Liturgy that can be used at any service;
● Theme-based graphics for your projection software, including welcome screens and backgrounds for song lyrics, liturgies, and sermon notes;
● Décor suggestions both to create a visual focus in your sanctuary, and as an aid for reflection in the services (see Chapter One);
● Preparing, Responding, and Integrating practices for every day of the series to ensure that you can easily apply the message of the Scriptures to your own life;
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We Remember With Thanks...
includes the following chapters:
