Celebrating All Saints and All Souls with Pixar by Claire Brown; we can now add Soul to the list of excellent movies to share and explore.
Illustrated Ministry's Reformation Day Coloring Page & Poster are available here.
Their All Saints Day Children's Bundle includes:
And check out their free post: 3 Wondrous Ways to Celebrate All Saints’ Day with Kids
This series includes 3 original liturgies, title graphics, planning guide with hymn suggestions, promotional blurbs, and sermon starters.
Pairs well with God on the Move: Faith and Democracy, which includes 3 original liturgies, title graphics, planning guide with hymn suggestions, promotional blurbs, and sermon starters.
The Presbyterian Historical Society: The National Archives of the PC(USA) offer historical background and other resources for Reformation Sunday observations.
Recording of O Day Full of Grace with organ, orchestra, and four-part chorus.
Coco, Disney, 2017. (Movie)
What Does This Day Mean? Handout for The Feast of All Saints & Souls at Home from Building Faith
Teaching Touchstones for All Saints Adult Formation
The Feast of All Saints on November 1 is a day to celebrate God’s presence in and with the body of Christ, past, present, and future. Finding our way into this feast can be a challenge, though, especially if a lot of high expectations surround Christians’ definitions of “saints.”
Illustrated Ministry shares a free downloadable All Saints Day Youth Resource that includes:
ALL SAINTS DAY
This liturgy celebrates and honors our forebears in faith and encourages worshipers to continue the work of our ancestors.
The package features:
Liturgy: written by Rev. Anna Strickland
Art: “Yearning” by Hannah Garrity
Poem: “Where I Saw God Last” by Rev. Sarah Speed
Customizable graphic: for “All Saints Day"
While our liturgical calendar is ordered by sacred seasons, it is also sprinkled with special days—days set apart for celebration, honor, awe, unity, and justice. That’s why A Sanctified Art has crafted their Special Sundays collection with liturgy, art, and poetry for:
These worship resources are intended to be meaningful, low-prep materials to add creativity and depth to each service.
Prayers and a Blessing for All Saints’ Day
By BuildFaith Editors / Oct 10, 2023
Luke Medina/NPR/March 4, 2022
What songs meant the most to your loved ones and friends lost to COVID-19?
NPR curated a list.
The Illustrated Worship Planning Guide will walk church staff (or worship committee, church council, pastor, etc.) through the process of creating relevant liturgy for your specific community in special liturgical times. It provides a liturgical framework for special Sundays with prompts toward reflective discussion, prompts for creating a multi-sensory experience of liturgy, and examples of litanies for the different parts of the liturgy (Passing of the Peace, Prayer of Confession and Assurance of Pardon, Prayers of the People, Invitation and Welcome to the Table, and Charge & Benediction).
Digital download; 6 pages. An all-age service about what makes a saint and where they are to be found – mainly in the world all around us. Incorporates the story of the five loaves and two fishes.
Digital download: A liturgy for those from whom we are separated, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
Digital download; 11 pages. Resources for All Hallows’ Eve include:
Digital download for celebrating the period around Halloween – including Samhain, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. 43 pages include:
shares Osheta Moore's “Here Lies Love,” a litany to remind us that though we lay our loved ones to rest and we feel a myriad of emotions, not a single one of them is foreign and unseen by Jesus.
