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.