The fall triduum of All Hallow’s Eve (10/31), All Saints’ Day (11/1), and All Souls’ Day (11/2) always brings to mind the incredible mystery of God’s love — a love that binds us together with a pretty motley crew through time and space — and that binds us to a God whose Will for the world is always at odds with our own.

When we remember the saints, we’re reminded that in every way they are just like us — ordinary human beings with extraordinary faith. But it’s those saints whose extraordinary faith led them to truly seek first the kingdom of God that we remember most fondly, if not also incompletely.

During his trip to Lambeth this past summer, Bishop Waggoner happened upon Canterbury Cathedral and a plaque displaying their mission statement. Now, for a very large, historic Cathedral, you’d have reasonable expectations that the actual mission of the place might be buried between and beneath years and years of insider language and theological jargon. Such was apparently Bishop Waggoner’s assumption when he arrived at the plaque and, so, you can imagine his surprise when he read the following mission statement for Canterbury Cathedral: “to show people Jesus.” That’s it, “to show people Jesus.”

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