All Saints Feast
The 1st of November, for all the dead the church counts as saints, named and unnamed. Revelation 7:9 gives the image - a multitude which no man could number - and Hebrews 12:1 the cloud of witnesses.
When it falls
Sunday
The verses for the day
- Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset {us}, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Hebrews 12:1
- After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;Revelation 7:9
- Blessed {are} the pure in heart: for they shall see God.Matthew 5:8