There is a saying that goes, when you sing, you pray twice. For me, hymns are at the heart of All Saints' Day. Connected as it is, among Protestants, with Reformation Sunday, the robust "A Mighty Fortress" complements the melodious "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God" and the majestic "For All the Saints." A children's hymn, popular in Great Britain, "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God" suggests that ordinary people, going about their business, can be saints, that is, revealers of God's grace whose faithfulness changes the world:
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