This Week
All Saints
1/11/2026
November is the month of the Holy Souls
Fellow Citizens with the Saints
Dear Friends,
This Sunday is All Saints Day and there-fore we celebrate the work of God’s grace in the lives of the saints, both known and unknown. At the same time, we reflect on our own call to holiness, and we realise that we are called to be saints ourselves. This seems an apposite day on which to begin the long overdue Planned Giving Drive at Our Lady and St George. A vital part of our fellowship with the saints, and our participation in the life of the Church, comes from our willingness to support its work and mis-sion—our Christian stewardship. We remember that all that we have comes from God, and so when we make our freewill offering to the parish we are only giving back to the Lord what He has so generously given to us in the first place. I hope that you will be able to fully engage with the message that we are sharing with you over these 3 Sundays, just as those at Our Lady of Walsingham did when the same initiative was used there in Lent of this year.
November is now with us, the Month of the Holy Souls. This ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ is a poignant time of remembrance and thanksgiving. As well as praying for our beloved dead, we also give thanks for their lives as we see the dying away of the Church and calendar year. There are ample opportunities for us to remember, not least with the annual blessing of graves at Lavender Hill on Saturday 14th November and the annual Bereavement Mass on Thursday 26th November. These go hand in hand with the monthly bereavement Masses, which I commend to you.
With all good wishes,
Father Daniel
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