All Saints' Day

The Common Worship lectionary readings for All Saints' Day in Year A, the liturgical colour, and what changes in the order of service.

Year A · Principal Feasts · white/gold

Year APrincipal Feastswhite/gold

The readings

Citations follow the Revised Common Lectionary as used in the Church of England's Common Worship principal service lectionary. Verse numbering can differ very slightly between Bible translations.

The liturgical colour

Gold, or white where a parish has no gold set, for the principal feasts of the year. On this Sunday the colour is white/gold.

What changes in the service

A principal feast takes the festal shape, with the Gloria and the Creed.

In SundayHQ this is the festal template shape. You set your order of service once; when the season turns, one click applies the seasonal change and leaves the rest of your parish's own wording alone.

Hymns that fit these readings

Suggestions matched to the readings above, each with the reason it was chosen:

• Opening — Ye holy angels bright Darwall's; the whole company, from the first note
• Gradual — Who are these, like stars appearing Revelation 7's multitude in white robes — the day's first reading
• Offertory — Jerusalem the golden The city they are being gathered towards
• Communion — Let all mortal flesh keep silence Awe before the throne, at the table
• Final — For all the saints Sine Nomine; the recessional the day is built around

When it next falls

Year A comes round every three years. The date moves because the whole calendar hangs off Easter.

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