. All Saints is one of the principal feasts and is also a time when we welcome new saints into the church through baptism. So on this day, it is very appropriate that the crafters of our lectionary cycle of readings have chosen the introduction to Jesus’ sermon on the mount, often known as “the beatitudes.” The sermon on the mount is really an extended lesson in what it means to be a beloved child of God, what it means, as Jesus says, to be salt of the earth and the light of the world.