All Souls’ Day

Each year on All Souls’ Day, the Church commemorates the faithful departed. This service is commended especially to those whose loved ones died since November last year.

Saint Philip’s will observe its annual All Souls’ requiem mass at 7:00pm on Saturday, November 2, with music by Zbigniew Preisner.

At this sombre and atmospheric service, the lay clerks will sing Zbigniew Preisner’s moving Requiem for my Friend for soloists, organ, strings, and percussion. This work includes stunning high soprano solos, especially in the Lacrimosa movement, which was memorably incorporated into the creation scene in Terrence Mallick’s film, Tree of Life.