Sundays at All Hallows (Sunday, May 25, 2025) Is Now Online

 

Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows.

This Sunday, the fourth and last Sunday in May, is the Sixth Sunday of Easter (or the Fifth Sunday after Easter). The Feast of the Ascension is next Thursday, May 29.

The three days before Ascension Day are traditionally known as the Rogation Days and this Sunday, the Sunday before Ascension Day, as Rogation Sunday. The following Sunday, June 8, is Whitsun, also known as the Feast of Pentecost.

In the past the fields were blessed on Rogation Sunday. Processions were held in which the Great Litany was sung or recited and additional prayers offered for the right kind of weather for the crops to grow and for a bountiful harvest.

It was also customary to conduct perambulations of the boundaries of the parish, the practice of “beating the bounds,” in which the boys and apprentices of the parish were shown the boundary markers of the parish and then beaten or otherwise treated roughly to ensure that they did not forget them. If the boundary marker was a pond or brook, they might be thrown into it. In later, more gentler times choir boys, armed with switches, would beat the boundary markers.

The topic of this Sunday’s message is what Jesus taught his disciples about loving him.

Readings: Acts 16: 9-15, Revelation 21: 10-14, 22 - 22: 5; and John 14: 23-29

Message: What Did Jesus Teach His Disciples about Loving Him?

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