Sunday 1 November 2026
- General:
- Lectionary
All Saints Day
The traditions and meanings around All-Hallows Eve and All Saints Day are richer than many of us allow. Laurence Wareing puts the case for reclaiming Halloween within Christian worship in All Saints and All-Hallows Eve. However, many others have also explored this theme.
General
For all the saints who from their labours rest (StF 745)
For all the saints who showed your love (StF 746)
One human family God has made (StF 687)
We gather round this table (website only) communion hymn
Ye servants of God (StF 340)
More suggestions and reflections at Singing All Saints and All-hallows Eve.
Revelation 7: 9-17
Blessing and honour, glory and power are rightly yours (StF 765)
Come let us join our cheerful songs (StF 743)
Come let us join our friends above (StF 744)
Glorious things of thee are spoken (StF 748)
Holy, holy, holy Lord (StF 789)
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! (StF 11)
How shall I sing that majesty? (StF 53)
King of Kings, Majesty (StF 331)
Let earth and heaven agree (StF 358)
Love divine, all loves excelling (StF 503)
Praise, my soul, the king of heaven (StF 83)
There is a higher throne (StF 337)
Psalm 34: 1-10, 22
Hymns echoing the psalmist’s theme
I will bless the Lord at all times (StF 809) (Psalm 34: spoken, responsive)
King of Glory, King of Peace (StF 56)
My soul finds rest in God alone (StF 633)
Through all the changing scenes of life (StF 638)
1 John 3: 1-3
Author of life divine (StF 572) communion hymn
Come let us sing of a wonderful love (StF 443)
Father God, I wonder (StF 72)
Help us, O Lord, to learn (StF 501)
More like you, Jesus, more like you (StF 505)
Open the eyes of my heart, Lord (StF 451)
Purify my heart, let me be as gold (StF 508)
Matthew 5: 1-12
Beatitude (Blessed are the poor in Spirit) (website only)
Blest are the pure in heart (StF 244)
Blest are they, the poor in spirit (StF 245)
Community of Christ (StF 681)
Hear the call of the kingdom (StF 407)
The kingdom of God (StF 255)
A prayer for the Methodist Church in Britain
"In our joys and in our sorrows, days of toil and hours of ease,
Still he calls, in cares and pleasures, Christian, love me more than these.” (StF 250 v. 4)
The Conference, the Connexional Council, the District Chairs and the Warden of the Diaconal Order have heard your call, Risen Shepherd of the Church. Guide and direct them, we pray, that in their discerning and their decisions they may love you above all else. Loving you, may they follow wherever you lead, giving themselves away in your service. Through their self-giving, may your people be nourished, and through the flourishing of the Church, may your glory be revealed. Amen.
Prayer inspired by Singing the Faith (StF) 250 v. 4 and John 21:15–19
Jonathan Hustler, Secretary of the British Methodist Conference
A prayer that our lives testify to God's Grace - Alternative Prayer
Let our souls rejoice in your power, O God, and our hearts in your love. As our mouths are filled with your praise, may our lives testify to your grace. Amen.
Sarah Crosby, Methodist Preacher (1729–1804)