This is wonderful! We are looking forward to some ordinations of former St Nicholas folks in the near future.

When the Rev. Miguel Briones took a job as a sexton at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn 13 years ago, he didn’t know he would go from doing maintenance work to fulfilling a childhood calling to become a priest.

“It was God,” said Briones who will become the first native Mexican to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago early next year.

Link: Glen Ellyn church helps immigrant fulfill his calling – DailyHerald.com

All Saints: Birth and Death, water and ashes, a photo by St Nicholas Episcopal on Flickr.

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At St Nicholas, we have an immersion font with a flowing fountain.

This year the All Saints Names banner is displayed near the font, with bier candles (normally used at funerals) arranged around it. On the wall is a small columbarium, a repository for the ashes of parishioners no longer with us.

The symbolism reminds us of life and death, water and ashes, beginnings and endings.

, a photo by St Nicholas Episcopal on Flickr.

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The Names Banner and Book of Remembrance are displayed for next Sunday’s celebration of the Feast of All Saints, when we remember our loved ones who have passed on.