All Saints Day
We shall be celebrating All Saints' Day at our Sunday Mass at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday 2nd November.
You are invited to bring your icons of the saints to be blessed during the service.
On All Saints’ Day, we celebrate all the saints, known and unknown, who have attained heaven. In our Choral Mass to remember their lives and the examples they set for us.
Hymns:
NEH 197 For all the Saints
NEH 208 In our day of thanksgiving
NEH 341 Blest are the pure in heart
NEH 231 Who are these like stars appearing
Anthem O Thou the central orb
All Souls' Day
We shall be commemorating All Souls' Day with a Sung Requiem Mass at 7:30 p.m. on Monday 3rd November.
All Souls’ Day is an ancient tradition if remembering and honouring the departed. It's a day filled with reflection, remembrance, and the lighting of candles, symbolizing the hope of an eternal bond between the living and the deceased through the death and resurrection of Christ.
At St Alban’s Church we celebrate All Souls’ Day with a Choral Mass during which we will recall the names of our departed friends and relatives.
Hymns:
NEH 381 Jerusalem the golden
NEH 329 Jesu, Son of Mary (Tune 50 – Kings Weston)
NEH 459 The Lord’s my shepherd
NEH 114 Now is eternal life
Anthem: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts – Purcell