Do Anglicans venerate Saints?

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7_Sorrows said:
So happy I don’t belong to a church that has a feast day for the Reformation! :eek:
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It isn’t emphasized as much anymore though it is still on the calendar and many parishes celebrate the nearest Sunday as Reformation Sunday. Much of the focus now is on building relationships with other Christians, including Catholics.
 
EvangelCatholic said:
Lutherans do celebrate the birth of Martin Luther and also honor the Augsburg Confession as commemorations [not quite holy days]. The feast of the Reformation is celebrated on the Eve of All Saints day. There are other Lutherans honored in the Church calendar.
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Right but it just seems really odd to me they honor a man who was very outspoken against their Church and was even killed for doing so.
 
EvangelCatholic said:
It isn’t emphasized as much anymore though it is still on the calendar and many parishes celebrate the nearest Sunday as Reformation Sunday. Much of the focus now is on building relationships with other Christians, including Catholics.
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That’s good.
 
Cajun_Papist said:
Right but it just seems really odd to me they honor a man who was very outspoken against their Church and was even killed for doing so.
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They honour a Christian who was martyred for his faith. Why do you think that odd? They also honour those who went to the fire for their faith under Mary I, at the rate of about one a week, I believe. You could do worse than honour Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, for instance, who went into the Marian flames and whose words now, I am told, inform even the liturgy of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
 
My hunch is that Anglicans have more saints days than Lutherans but much less than Catholics and Orthodox.
 
The question of More in the Anglican calendar came up here around 3+ years ago.

I posted:

*There is no single method of canonization, nor is there a single calender of saints across all of Anglicanism (as with many things, one needs to specify which Anglicans one is referring to; the Calendar varies with each independent province). The only individual I’m aware of that was treated in anything like the same fashion as the RCC follows was Charles II, King and Martyr, though even that is not widely followed, outside the Society of Charles II.

Addition to an Anglican Calendar says nothing necessarily about the assumed sanctity or status of the individuals, and the term “Saint” is not officially used. Individuals added to the Calendar were most often names who played a prominent role in Church history and whose devotion is well attested. For the Church of England, which added Thomas More, those criteria were met. His feast day (as also John Fisher’s) is 6 July, and I will see it memorialized in my American parish Calendar. Though More was caught in a political struggle with Henry VIII, he was recognized as a man of learning, devotion and principle.
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GKC
 
I have never seen a lutheran calendar but you might be right.
Anglicans and episcopalians also say the apostle’s and nicene creed.
I wasn’t sure if you knew who Thomas More was so I clarified in an earlier post. 🙂

My mother was lutheran by the way. I have her confirmation certificate.
My dad was catholic so I was raised episcopalian.
I converted to the Catholic faith in 2008.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I have never seen a lutheran calendar but you might be right.
Anglicans and episcopalians also say the apostle’s and nicene creed.
I wasn’t sure if you knew who Thomas More was so I clarified in an earlier post. 🙂

My mother was lutheran by the way. I have her confirmation certificate.
My dad was catholic so I was raised episcopalian.
I converted to the Catholic faith in 2008.
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I have learned so much about Anglicans since joining this forum. And I’ve had great pilgrimages to St John the Divine cannundrum.blogspot.com/2011/04/cathedral-of-st-john-divine-new-york.html

Being in full communion with Episcopalians has only enriched my appreciation of the Catholic faith.
 
EvangelCatholic said:
I have learned so much about Anglicans since joining this forum. And I’ve had great pilgrimages to St John the Divine cannundrum.blogspot.com/2011/04/cathedral-of-st-john-divine-new-york.html

Being in full communion with Episcopalians has only enriched my appreciation of the Catholic faith.
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Maybe this is a dumb question, and I have asked it on more than a few occasions to various posters with the same sentiment, but if you appreciate the Catholic faith so much why don’t you just become Catholic?
 
SteveVH said:
Maybe this is a dumb question, and I have asked it on more than a few occasions to various posters with the same sentiment, but if you appreciate the Catholic faith so much why don’t you just become Catholic?
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Anglicans such as I’m say they are Catholic. But not Roman Catholic.

No one I know expects anyone to agree.

GKC

Anglicanus-Catholicus
 
GKC said:
Anglicans such as I’m say they are Catholic. But not Roman Catholic.

No one I know expects anyone to agree.

GKC

Anglicanus-Catholicus
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Yeah, I don’t have the energy to go down that road again. 🙂
 
When I was Anglican/Episcopal I belonged to a parish dedicated to St. Nicholas. They have a huge statue of St Nicholas and two icons of him.

Even today I still have an icon and statue of St. Nicholas which I venerate. So there is at least one Episcopal parish that venerates the Saints.

But as GCK says, they are a motley crew and a different parish in the same city may ignore the Saints completely. In fact they do at the social parish.
 
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