Season of Graces - Cont.: All Saints Day

On this day of the Communion of Saints and for tomorrow's celebration of All Souls, the following prayer/reading seems appropriate as we remember those who have gone before, and who are yet, still present with us.

Blessed Be,

Joel

The Larger Circle

We clasp the hands of those that go before us,
And the hands of those who come after us.
We enter the little circle of each other's arms
And the larger circle of lovers, whose hands are joined in a dance,
And the larger circle of all creatures,
Passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance,
To the music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it
Except in fragments.

~ Wendell Berry*

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*As found in Singing the Living Tradition (1993) 646.