For all the saints…

Last Sunday, Oct 28,  has been on my mind all week.  Bizarre was the first word before worship even began.  The Youth Group had planned a Halloween Party for the entire congregation during coffee hour and invited everyone to come in costume.  Willie Wonka was processing with the choir.  A little dinosaur couldn’t sit down all morning.  And a variety of other saints in costumes of other saints.  Then, there were the saints who came as themselves without masks. Was there a full moon the night before?

As our worship ended, our organist extraordinaire, Yun Kim, let the organ loose with Bach’s Tocatta in D minor.  Complain all you want about traditional music and pipe organs; but, at that moment, there was no more perfect expression of the richness of the saints gathered as the Holy People of God.  Willie Wonka, a princess playing with her Barbie doll, the choir, many of the saints gathered, and this priest  just stopped to listen.

Thank you Youth Group for the fun of it all!  Bizarre, maybe.  A morning when the mirror on our humanity was a bit less dim, absolutely! 

-Mary Slenski (who decided her morning vestments were the perfect costume as an English vicar)