You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Worshippers marked All Saints Day on November 3, 2024, with a reading of the names of departed friends and family from the past year. The congregation celebrated Communion and sang, “For All the Saints.”
In preparation for Election Day on Tuesday, the Reverend Ken Baily discussed the word “City” in the Bible, and Biblical guidance about how people can live together. He cited Thomas Hobbes’s contention that life without good government is poor — “nasty, brutish, and short.”
As is customary on the first Sunday of the month, children and youth made sandwiches for Community Day Center of Waltham.
Organist Yevgenia Semeina played Toccata and Fugue in D minor (J. S. Bach) for the postlude.