Anglican service and Roman Catholic mass?

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sharon_rose said:
In the Presbyterian church that I’ve been to, we say the Apostle’s Creed. It says we believe in the communion of saints. I’m wondering then why don’t they practice intercession like the Roman Catholics? Could someone shed some light on this? Thanks!!
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The Westminster Confession (the official Presbyterian statement of faith) discusses the communion of saints solely in terms of the communion of saints now living on earth.

Edwin
 
sharon_rose said:
In the Presbyterian church that I’ve been to, we say the Apostle’s Creed. It says we believe in the communion of saints. I’m wondering then why don’t they practice intercession like the Roman Catholics? Could someone shed some light on this? Thanks!!
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I dont know why Presbyterians and other Protestant denominations Proffess the belief in the communion of Saints and not practice it or believe in the communion of Saints as did our early church fathers who believed in and handed down this doctrine and is still believed in and practiced by The Roman Catholic church. Its doctrines like these that make the Roman Catholic church one Holy apostlolic Catholic church.

The doctrine of the Communion of Saints is proffessed and believed in today by Roman Catholics, we ask our patron saints in heaven to pray for us, because as Roman Catholics we believe God is God of the living not the dead, thus communion of saints, though if one is awake (living on earth) or asleep (resting under the earth) they are all alive to God, who is God of Jacob, Moses etc. And we know that Jacob and Moses are not on earth, but alive and well with God.For God is the God of the living not the dead.

Why our seperated brethern proffess the apostles creed, but translate a different meaning to the words proffessed by Catholic christians for 2 millenium now, has to do why they seperated from the one Holy Apostolic Catholic church. Presbyterians were once Roman Catholic, that is why you proffess our same creed, you come from the body of Jesus Christ, but are seperated from full communion with the Roman Catholic church. There is much more to say here about our Credo’s and beliefs.

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Contarini said:
I don’t mean to do this. My point is that Anglicans have never claimed officially that Rome is heretical (though such an opinion was almost universal among late-sixteenth-century Anglicans) and in that sense have never broken communion with Rome. We simply rejected Rome’s authority. If you chose to accept us into full communion we would gladly accept (as opposed to, say, the Missouri Synod Lutherans, who would demand that you abandon your “errors” first). I am not claiming that you are doing us some wrong in not accepting us “as we are.” I’m simply trying to explain how Anglicans can say that they believe in the unity of the Church. We don’t claim (as traditional Presbyterians or Lutherans would claim) that this unity excludes Rome. So all the arguments about how we derive from you are moot. We aren’t disputing that. Hooker maintained precisely this point against the Puritans.

Edwin
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Which is why we Episcopalian’s accept all christians who where baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to Holy Communion. I don’t believe that the Eucharist belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.
 
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