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“That prayer helps keep this November Second’s Commemoration in it is
biblical place. Such prayers help prevent rightly confession congregations from
assenting to, or cooperating in, many types of false worship and practices that accompany All Souls Day. You likely know that many Tucson area residents celebrate the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos on 1 and 2 November each year. In the face of that, we will continue to celebrate the biblical reality that people who have been baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus, even though they may die, live in Him forever. Baptized and continually believing persons who have not yet fallen asleep in the Lord find their greatest communion with the blessed ones who have died in Christ whenever they
come to Christ’s Altar Tables in rightly confessing and worshipping congregations. It is there where those who are baptized, those who rightly discern Christ’s Body and Blood in, with, and under earthly elements of bread and wine, recline in His Presence. Through those means, the faithful are granted forgiveness and strengthening to eternal life by Jesus Himself. Further, we recall that where Jesus is, there are the heavenly hosts.”
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There is a conjunction of readings that have occurred this day. In this place, we follow the helpful and ancient tradition of keeping the appointed Sunday readings whenever a minor feast, festival, or commemoration appears on a Sunday. That helps all of us hold fast to the rhythm of this part of Trinity-tide, whose Sunday texts reinforce us for Christian endurance in the Faith. For more, click on the title above.