This. It’s a set-up.

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This year the person filling the pulpit is from a non-denominational background and is more low church so sadly I expect it won't even be mentioned. I may be wrong, I hope I am. These kind of liturgical-year things matter to me.

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summer when she died (my parents were getting ready to move to IL, I was trying to get applications ready for grad schools) and so I don't think I really mourned her until that quiet moment and that's when I saw how important the day was

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it's not in the current hymnal. Other years they invited people to stand up and remember someone they had lost in the previous year. I remember the point where I really mourned my maternal grandma (died 1989) was on All Saints' Day in the little Disciples church in Ann Arbor; it had been a busy

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We don't always do much; it depends on if the person in the pulpit is more high-church or low. For a few years we had someone who was quite high church, we made a display board of names of people that people remembered and added to it each year. Some years we sing For All The Saints, even though

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