All Saints Day Sermon: Lessons From The Saints November 3rd, 2019. Thank you for the way you’ve embraced me and made me feel at home. People have sent messages, cards, posted kind things on my Facebook wall, and sent very kind emails.  The willingness to welcome, accept, and embrace one another is more than the slogan, “The Episcopal Church welcomes you.” It is the beatitudes, and it is the way of the saints.  Allow me a confession: I intended to preach the conventional All Saints’ Day sermon, “Tell some stories about the saints, then say…