ON THE COVER: Symbolic Gates,by Alexander Tylevich, is the Best of Show in ML's Visual Arts Awards Sacred Art competition. To see more winners, click here.

From Inside ML: We don’t think too much or too often about the communion of saints. We celebrate them individually on our liturgical calendar, and maybe we seek the intercession of one or another of them on occasion. But rarely do we deliberately look to find our place among them. Not often do we call on them as a whole to walk with us, pray with us, be with us. We tend to envision them on a spiritual plane far above us, and in doing so we miss the opportunity to interact with them as well as with the saints here on earth. It is our loss indeed, for there is great wealth there. Surely in a church in which so many of us are in need of courage and reassurance that the path to which we have been called is true, the saints who have gone before as well as those here on earth are a company to which we can and should turn as we struggle on. There is power in that communion that spans eternity — past, present, and future. All we have to do is reach out to it. It is no wonder that we use the Litany of the Saints at liturgies that form a sacramental crossroads. Not only do we call on the saints for their intercession and blessing, we invite them to rejoice with us and to continue to walk with us in our journey of faith. By their example, we are called to be living saints, true believers, boldly proclaiming our faith before all the world. Being always open to those graced moments when we are able to see in ourselves and in others the seeds of holiness offers us the ability to be true to the people God has called us to be. (More)

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Visual Arts Awards Online: Sacred Art

The yellow pages 
Ronald Raab 
Finding grace in the ordinary

Sabbath posture: Awe, wonder, and grace 
William C. Graham 
Awe in the presence of majesty

Saints triumphant 
Donna M. Cole 
Saints in everyday life

Until we all meet in Christ: Remembering the dead 
Mary Ann Paulukonis 
Remembrances with assurance of faith

Q&A on the Roman Missal 
Paul Turner 
Understanding new translations

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• Inside ML / Donna M. Cole
• Worship Times / Todd Flowerday
• Liturgy Formation: All Saints — Christ the King 2008 / Kay Murdy, Matt Reichert
• The Word Alive / Anne Louise Bannon
• Sung Prayer / David Haas
• Moving Rite Along / Ada Simpson
• Keeping the Faith / Leisa Anslinger
• At the Table of the Word / Bruce Janiga
• Pray, Believe, Learn, & Live / Eliot Kapitan
• Bridge Work / Ron Raab
• Bulletin Insert: AMDG / Paul Turner

Bulletin Insert: Baptismal Formula / Paul Turner

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