All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2025: Daniel 7:1-3,15-18; Psalm 149; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6:20-31
Today we celebrate All Saints, the day we remember the saints who have gone before us. The whole range of saints help us see ways to live our lives as Christians. Jesus appears to set high standards in the gospel:
Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
The first part of the paragraph seems unachievable. Yet the last sentence makes it a bit easier: Do to others as you would have them do to you. And it’s true. All the things that precede it are things we would wish others would do for us. That doesn’t make it easy, but it gives us direction.
As we think about saints, we know they were not perfect: but they put their talents in service of Jesus and of the world. As we remember the saints, the great cloud of witnesses who have gone before us, we can see in their lives glimmers of how we can live faithful lives.
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