Coming up at the end of this week are two of my favourite liturgical feasts—those of All Saints and All Souls. I simply love how they afford a particular opportunity to collectively call to mind loved ones that have gone before and also to envision the communion of saints who accompany us.

All Saints-All Souls 2024

Within the eddies of autumn,

the wind and leaves, the cool

ducking in between buttons,

are others who walk with us.

Others whom we thought gone,

and yet.

The way they lived their humanity

in its well laden fullness—

to the marvel and perhaps consternation

of those they surrounded;

that great swirl of being

is what radiates throughout their memory—

reminding us over and again

that they walked here, took breath

here, and are now 

the bearers of insight, glimpses

into the boundless everlasting,

prisms of Love.

Kimberly M. King