Season of Remembering

All Souls’ to Remembrance Day

 All Souls’ to Remembrance Day provides a special opportunity to meet the need in our communities to pause, reflect and remember.  We are calling this a ‘Season of Remembering’ and encouraging churches to use this opportunity in whatever ways they can to help people to process grief.  There is increasing recognition of the need to process our losses to prevent negative outcomes later on (such as job loss, relationship breakdown and mental ill health).

An All Souls’ Day service will remember those who have died at any time and in any way; a Remembrance Service around 11th November will be specifically about people who have died in the world wars or armed services; a ‘Thanksgiving and Remembering’ service, or special remembering activity, can be held with any focus and at any time. 

Loss is often compounded and any specific service or activity will remind people of unresolved past or present loss and pain.  There is often a need to ‘do’ something and to ‘mark’ a loss to help to bring closure and healing.

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has good resources for Remembrance Sunday:

REMEMBRANCE RESOURCES https://ctbi.org.uk/resources/remembrance-2025