Joining the Guild

The Guild of All Souls:
  • encourages and supports prayer and care for those who are sick, dying, departed and bereaved. 
  • publishes prayer cards and booklets;
  • hosts a website with news, further resources, the full chantry list of departed members and links to bereavement organisations and helplines;
  • arranges an annual day conference at Walsingham;
  • hosts an annual Requiem at St Stephen, Gloucester Road, Kensington, where Requiems are also offered twice monthly;
  • is patron of a number of parishes and responsible for, or consulted when appointing priests;
  •  arranges a Mass each summer in one such parish - West Tofts in the Norfolk STANTA area - helping maintain an important Christian presence.
Members
  • are encouraged to pray and care for the sick, dying, departed and bereaved.
  • are asked to pray at least weekly for those who have died in the past 15 years;
  • receive the annual intercession paper containing prayers, information and names of those who have died in the past 15 years. (Names of departed non-members can be added upon payment of £25 – ask the General Secretary for details);
  • are encouraged to attend Requiem Masses, particularly on All Souls’ Day (2nd November);
  • will be remembered every year on the anniversary of their death in perpetuity at the Mass in the Chantry Chapel at Walsingham.
Priest members and Guild Branches
  • are asked to celebrate a monthly Requiem.​


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The Guild of All Souls is one of the Catholic Societies of the Church of England, but is happy to welcome as members any who share its objects.

Membership is £20 per year, payable by standing order.
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You can download an application form here
Objects of The Guild
​1. Intercessory prayer for the dying and for the repose of the souls of the departed.

2. To promote the two great doctrines of the Christian Creed: “The Communion of Saints’’ and “The Resurrection of the Dead’’. 

The following are particularly commended to the prayers of members. 
(a) The restoration of the scriptural rite of anointing the sick with holy oil, commonly called Holy Unction.
(b) The restoration of the primitive custom of reserving the Holy Eucharist for the sick and dying.​
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To Pray must also mean to care.
As members of this devotional Guild we are called to care for
the sick, the dying, the departed and the bereaved.