Saints and Marian devotion in Episcopal Church

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And many Anglicans disagree. But we moved the sung Angelus, after Sunday Mass, to a recited Angelus, after Wednesday Evening Prayer.
 
I think, possibly, yes. More purified and woke, as it were. Fewer dissidents to the new received…doctrines.
 
Perhaps I have failed to communicate. It is one of the skills I have worked on for years, and yet, so much still needs to be done. Also, it’s raining here.

After 40 years or increasing divergence from orthodoxy, in the Episcopal Church, their dissidents (the orthodox) have either reached accommodation with the new woke rulers and their new ideas, or have left for more orthodox folds. The Anglican Continuum, for example, Rome for another.

In the twenty years I have been in my parish, whenever another dust-up occurred in TEC, we (in my parish) would look at each other and wonder if we might see a refuge-seeking dissident Episcopalian. For the last 4 or 5 years there have been none such. We consider dissident Episcopalians now to be fabulous creatures, of the nature of unicorns. TEC is much more homogeneous, we conclude. Happy with where they are.

OTOH, we are getting an influx of mainline protestants, accepting our high Church and Anglo-Catholic parish with open arms. I am amazed, but grateful.
 
such as calling Our Lady as “co-redeemer” was something more.
In the RCC itself, those using the term range all the way from simple piety (in fact, we are all to be co-redeemers to one another) to hard-core heresy (some seem to have the notion that Mary’s role in redemption is equal to Christ’s:scream:)

But still far less efficient than Baptists . . . according to a Methodist professor covering a class in my Advanced Protestant Though class at a Jesuit school during the absence of the Baptist profesor, “Whenever three Baptists gather in his name . . . four denominations are present.” 😱🤣🤔
 
The Anglican Forward in Faith group in the UK hold an annual pilgrimage to the the very ancient (and beautiful) Catholic shrine at Ladyewell Fernyhalgh near Preston in Lancashire. I know for certain that it is often among largest pilgrimages each year to this famous Catholic shrine.
This is from the website of the Shrine and realtes to the Anglican attending:
http://ladyewellshrine.co.uk/870/
and here is a picture of the statue of Our Lady of Fernyhalgh and the ancient well itself:
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My mother is an ACNA Anglican with a special devotion to St Therese of the Child Jesus. Probably my particularly common.
 
Some pictures from the Festival of Our Lady of Walsingham held at Westminster Abbey (Church of England) May 2019:


My parish church is not Anglo Catholic but like many CofE churches we have a Lady Chapel (a side Chapel and altar dedicated to the BVM ). My church celebrates Saint’s Days including several in honour of the BVM. In keeping with the doctrine of the 1662 BCP however we do not pray to the Saints or request their intercession.

Anglo Catholic churches may take a different approach. I have attended such churches where Marian devotions are standard such as the singing of the Angelus after Mass and Marian antiphons after Compline etc. I can recall singing the Litany of Saints at Easter Vigils at a Forward in Faith church in the village where I worked.
 
Cradle Episcopalian, here. At the parish where I worship, we are taught about the Communion of Saints, and taught to ask the Saints to pray for us. We have a tasteful bust of Mary displayed prominently. Your mileage may vary, of course.
 
You might find a few people in that congregation who pray the rosary, certainly nobody would try to stop them, but it wouldn’t be typical. The current priest has told me that she prays the rosary.
 
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