Talk:Calendar of saints (Church of England)

message: Each national church has its own, so I'm curious about the source. Fishhead64 06:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the calendar used by the Church of England, in England (and possibly elsewhere), as given in Common Worship Neddyseagoon 12:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article should either be edited to reflect this fact, and/or expanded to include memorials and commemorations in other Anglican provinces.  A table of individuals on one axis, and national churches on the other, is one way of doing this.  Another suggestion is severely circumscribing the list, just including those individuals recognised throughout the Communion. Fishhead64 14:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Or just move it to Calendar of saints (Church of England) or Calendar of saints (Anglican, England)? Neddyseagoon 14:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

text: So far as I know, they are all recognised throughout the communion. Neddyseagoon 14:12, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like that idea.  We could have a main article (say "Saints in Anglicanism") with links to offshhot articles on the various national calendars.  I know that several figures on the C of E calendar are not commemorated on the Anglican Church of Canada calendar and vice versa. Fishhead64 14:23, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: consider it done (or started at least)! :-) Neddyseagoon 17:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just fyi, I am Episcopalian, which is part of the Anglican Communion (at least for now) and we follow this calendar. Our cathedral has services every day, and St. Ignatius was mentioned in last night's service (17 Oct).
Link does not work.  needs to be changed to https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar--142.163.194.13 (talk) 12:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Whose calendar is this?

message: Various well-meaning editors have been adding glosses to the official descriptions in the calendar, e.g. "first post-597 Bishop of London", "Major figure of the Catholic Reformation", "founder of Bridgettine Order", etc. etc., as well as changing some details of wording, e.g. "Order of Preachers" to "Dominican Order". I have gone through removing all these changes, in order to restore the text to that given in the official C of E calendar.
The point of this is that the authorised calendar consists not just of the list of commemorations itself, but also (and very nearly as importantly) the text of the calendar as well. A lot of debate went on, not just in deciding who to commemorate, but what exactly to say about them, and some of the descriptions (particularly of figures from the Reformation period) were hard-won agreements between parties with differing perspectives. That is why the text of the calendar is an official, authorised document, which needs to be respected as such. I can quite understand those who just want to put in their favourite snippet of information about this or that saint, or provide a bit of historical context, or change the wording to something they think is a bit clearer; but I would ask everyone to recognise that changing the wording is changing the calendar, and introducing comment which, however valid, belongs elsewhere.
BTW, I have also removed all the entries relating to other parts of the Anglican Communion, which presumably date from before the article was C of E-specific. Vilĉjo 21:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording of the calendar 

message: Huh?  How is George Fox a saint in Anglicanism?  That seems totally crazy. john k 16:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If he's in the calendar, he's in the calendar. Fishhead64 01:42, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thomas More is on there, too.  Wonder what he'd think of that.  Coemgenus 02:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He's thrilled. The Church Triumphant (in heaven) is non-denominational. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 13:17, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Fox?? 

message: Not having been born Anglican, plus as a layperson living "across the pond", I dare not presume to change this calendar page. But I noticed today that the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle somehow was missing from December 21 (the day Episcopalians celebrate him). Also, it seems odd to have no saints listed basically for a calendar week.  Just a question...Jweaver28 (talk) 03:06, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Many churches moved St Thomas's Day from 21 December to 3 July, back in the 70s and 80s. The Roman Catholic Church did so in the 1970 review of its calendar. Many Anglican churches followed suit immediately, and the Church of England officially did so with the publication of the ASB Calendar in 1980, continued in the Common Worship Calendar. It was always a very inconvenient day to celebrate an important feast, coming as it did in Advent, often clashing with an Advent Sunday (causing untold liturgical difficulties), and often competing with Christmas carol services and other celebrations. Some Anglican churches have stuck to 21 December, but I believe most have gone over to 3 July. Here in the British Isles the Church of England keeps 3 July, the Church of Ireland keeps 3 July (21 December optional), the Scottish Episcopal Church keeps 3 July, and I think the Church in Wales does so too - though I can't quite find my Welsh prayer book at present to confirm it. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 13:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doublecheck calendar for December 17-24? 

message: Today I noticed on the Holidays and Observances section a feast of Zechariah and Elisabeth (parents of John the Baptist) shown as on both the Orthodox and Anglican calendars, yet it doesn't show on the Church of England's calendar of saints page. One of the pages needs changing, but being across the pond, all I did was add the Episcopal Church commemoration of a Filipino bishop to the Holidays and Observances section, since it appears the Episcopal Church doesn't have a feast day for the Baptist's progenitors. BTW, they might have meant Lutheran rather than Anglican, since the page for the Lutheran calendar lists Zechariah (but not Elisabeth).Jweaver28 (talk) 13:08, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  September 5 

message: The article appears to be missing Advent. m.e. (talk) 02:52, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advent?