The dead have a pact with the living...

Special guests for our service on All Hallow's Eve were Professors Siobhan Garrigan (Union STM ’91) and Patrick Evans (Union artist-in-residence 2001-02) who serve as Dean of Chapel and Director of Chapel Music, respectively, for the daily ecumenical worship program in Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School. Siobhan is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at YDS and the Institute of Sacred Music, and Patrick is Associate Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music at YDS/ISM.



Our service for All Hallow's Eve was the first of three that celebrated are ancestors and loved ones who have died. On Thursday, November 1, at noon we had our annual All Saints and All Souls communion service. And that evening the Latina/o Caucus presented their Day of the Dead service and dinner.

As I post this one week later on Thursday, November 8, we have just experienced the sudden death of a dear friend who was an alumnus, one of our field education lecturers, and a CPE supervisor.

We are reminded how important these services are as a chance for the community to be present to one another in the times of our greatest loss and across all time as we gather at one table as the communion of all saints.

Video and editing by Patricia Santiago