On this All Saints Sunday it is very appropriate for us to honor those of our families and congregation who have taken the name Christian, sought to be faithful disciples, and touched our lives in significant ways with their love and example and now have returned to God. A saint is one who has taken seriously Jesus instructions: “to pray always and not to lose heart.” As we name the saints in our memories and our prayers today and light candles in their honor, we are stating a fact that the world burns and burns us, yet we are not consumed.