St. Francis Episcopal Church

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on All Saints Day, November 4, 2012, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 11:32-44. Epistle is Revelation 21:1-6a. Story about holy man is a reworked Buddhist tale. The quotation from the Rev. Jeremy Taylor is taken from his “Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man's Life” in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.