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For All Saints Day and All Souls Day:

You came to dwell among us,
called sinners to be saints.
With all that cloud of witness,
let us behold your face.

Not as you stood before them
in days of old gone past,
but in your present glory
where day forever lasts.

And all who've gone before us
stand ever in your sight.
Oh, may they still pray for us
to join them in your light!

Where all are as one body,
all sing as with one breath
to praise the Word Incarnate
who broke the chains of death!

For not by blood of martyrs, 
not by the prophets' words,
but by your blood and body
you bring us home, O Lord.

So may we join that chorus
in endless songs of praise
and see you in your glory
in all your endless day!

Lanterns on graves at Warsaw’s Powązki cemetery on All Saints EveBy Ratoncito Perez – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51506392