{"id":53,"date":"2024-10-29T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/2024\/10\/29\/my-all-saints-day-roll-of-honour\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T08:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:00:45","slug":"my-all-saints-day-roll-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/2024\/10\/29\/my-all-saints-day-roll-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"My All Saints Day roll of honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Saints Sunday, 3 November 2024, Eldroth, Clapham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/john-davies-talks\/embed\/episodes\/My-All-Saints-Day-roll-of-honour-e2q9crt\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this All Saints Day we recall all those ghosts, saints, and souls we hold in blessed memory:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall those first signs of our first human ancestors,<\/p>\n<p>200,000 years ago, in what we now call the Rift Valley, Kenya;<\/p>\n<p>the Mesolithic People; the first \u2018Britons\u2019 in a land<\/p>\n<p>we would recognise, after the last Ice Age, 11,000 years ago:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall Abraham and Sarah, and Isaac, about 4,000 years ago, 2000 BC,<\/p>\n<p>journeying into the unknown, with just their Trust in a Hunch;<\/p>\n<p>and beginning the Story of Faith that is the Bible;<\/p>\n<p>to become Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and<\/p>\n<p>the Renaissance, the Human, Social and the Political Sciences:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall Naomi and Ruth, Isaiah and the \u2018discovery\u2019 of&nbsp; YAHWEH<\/p>\n<p>by the powerless people of Israel:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John The Baptist and all the Prophets,<\/p>\n<p>who spoke God\u2019s truth no matter the cost:<\/p>\n<p>We recall Mary, full of grace, called to be the singer of the song<\/p>\n<p>of the poor, and the mother of the Lord of the Dance:<\/p>\n<p>We recall the Men of the Disciples, who came to understand<\/p>\n<p>WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR THEM;<\/p>\n<p>And Lazarus, who did nothing but simply die &#8211; to be resurrected by the One<\/p>\n<p>whose own resurrection was soon to follow:<\/p>\n<p>We remember Lazarus\u2019 sisters Martha and Mary<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and the Women at the cross, who were the first to \u2018UNDERSTAND\u2019 the resurrection:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall George, who battled THE DRAGON:<\/p>\n<p>We recall Columba, Cuthbert, and the Venerable Bede of Jarrow<\/p>\n<p>for guarding the sacredness of these Celtic British Lands:<\/p>\n<p>We recall John of the Cross and the \u2018Cloud of Unknowing\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>and all those who dared to show the dark face of God:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall Arthur Pendragon, King of the Britons;<\/p>\n<p>Llywelyn of the Welsh, Robin Hood, Rob Roy MacGregor, King Edward The Confessor,<\/p>\n<p>And all those who became the stuff of legend and myth:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall all the risk-takers, peacemakers and martyrs of our own time:<\/p>\n<p>among them Abraham Lincoln, Mary Secole, Mahatma Ghandi, Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall all those prophets and \u2018saints\u2019 of the Church across the ages;<\/p>\n<p>Augustine; Ignatius; Francis; Thomas Aquinas;<\/p>\n<p>Hildegard of Bingen, Gustavo Gutierrez, Pope John the twenty-third,<\/p>\n<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, Brother Roger of Taiz\u00e9;<\/p>\n<p>William Wilberforce, George McLeod of Iona, Martin Luther King Jr, Billy Graham, Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall all poets and prophets, writers and singers, scientists, philosophers and artists&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>whose works have inspired us: <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, J.R.R.Tolkien,&nbsp;the Wesley brothers, the Isley brothers;<\/p>\n<p>We recall Ludwig Von Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, Lennon and McCartney;<\/p>\n<p>Glen Miller, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We think of Dylan Thomas, T.S.Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Roger McGough;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We remember Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Stan Laurel and Spike Milligan;<\/p>\n<p>Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We recall our <em>sporting<\/em> heroes of different eras and codes;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We celebrate all who gave heart to us by giving their heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are grateful for those who built Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>as a holy meeting point of the world;<\/p>\n<p>for those who have <em>rebuilt<\/em> Jerusalem over and over from the rubble of many conflicts and wars,<\/p>\n<p>and will do so again &#8211; soon, we pray, let it be soon;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and we honour those who would build Jerusalem <em>here<\/em> in England\u2019s green and pleasant land:<\/p>\n<p>We recall all the heroes, holy ones, saints, and souls<\/p>\n<p>remembered by us alone, or God alone:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we especially bring to mind the saints of our <em>own<\/em> lives&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>who invested teaching, friendship and trust in us;<\/p>\n<p>We recall all those of our own hearts and minds,<\/p>\n<p>who were <em>of<\/em> us, and informed our spirit for our way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>John Davies. Based on a wonderful original by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/johndavies.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/robert-gallagher-how-to-live-love-and-endure.html\"><em>Robert Gallagher<\/em><\/a><em>, November 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Revised from my blog post, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/johndavies.typepad.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/my-all-saints-day-roll-of-honour.html\"><em>1 November 2015<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Saints Sunday, 3 November 2024, Eldroth, Clapham On this All Saints Day we recall all those ghosts, saints, and souls we hold in blessed memory: &nbsp; We recall those first signs of our first human ancestors, 200,000 years ago, in what we now call the Rift Valley, Kenya; the Mesolithic People; the first \u2018Britons\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/2024\/10\/29\/my-all-saints-day-roll-of-honour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My All Saints Day roll of honour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndavies.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}