Although I haven’t been writing much this year, I couldn’t let All Souls Day pass unrecognized. I thought to look at the All Souls’ Day service in the 1878 Order of Services for the Days of the Christian Year: Specially Observed by the Universalist Church of the extinct Church of the Redeemer, Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Much of the service is drawn from scripture and appointed hymns. While taste in hymns changes, but the biblical reading evergreen and well loved. I thought it would be helpful to pick out which verses went to make this complied reading. (Some of you might find it more useful if drawn from modern translations.)
In addition to an All Souls Day service, it would good for a memorial service or for private devotion for mourners.
The scripture reading, line by line, is:
- Revelation 14:13
- Revelation 4:2, 3b
- Revelation 7:8
- Revelation 7:9
- Revelation 7:10
- Revelation 7:11 a, c
- Revelation 7:12
- Revelation 7:13
- Revelation 7:14
- Revelation 7:15
- Revelation 7:16
- Revelation 7:17
- Revelation 12:5
- Revelation 22:6a
- Revelation 5:13
- 2 Peter 1:3
- 2 Peter 1:4
- 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 1 John 3:2
- Romans 8:38
- Romans 8:39
- 1 John 3:3
- 1 Peter 5:6
- 1 Peter 5:7