Richard Hooker arrives in the calendar just after All Saints and All Souls—a theologian following a great company of saints, which seems wonderfully Anglican. As Día de los Muertos and its beautiful tradition of the ofrenda remind us, memory can become an act of love. Photographs, candles, flowers, food, stories, Eucharist, and prayer all point toward a greater Christian hope: the family of God is larger than the room we can see, and in God no beloved name is ever forgotten.
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Love Does Not Forget: All Souls and the Holy Work of Remembering
All Souls’ Day invites us to remember those whom we have loved and see no longer. We say their names, tell their stories, shed our tears, share our laughter, and entrust them again to God—trusting that death may change love, but cannot destroy it.