For All the Saints Revised

Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen For All the Saints revised FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 1 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 2 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen For All the Saints Prayers and Readings for Saints’ Days According to the Calendar of the Book of Alternative Services of the Anglican Church of Canada Revised with an Appendix including Recent Additions to the Calendar compiled by Stephen Reynolds FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 3 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen ABC Publishing, Anglican Book Centre General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada 80 Hayden Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4Y 3G2 [email protected] www.abcpublishing.com www.pathbooks.com Copyright © 2007, General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the Anglican Book Centre. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: For all the Saints : prayers and readings for Saints’ days : a supplement to the Book of alternative services Includes bibliographical references and index. 10-digit ISBN 1-55126-502-8 13-digit ISBN 978-1-55126-502-5 1. Saints – Prayer-books and devotions – English. 2. Anglican Church of Canada – Prayer-books and devotions. 3. Anglican Communion – Prayer-books and devotions – English. I. Reynolds, Stephen James, 1951- . II. Anglican Church of Canada. Doctrine and Worship Committee. Calendar Editorial Sub-Committee. EX5616.A432 1992 264’.031 C92-093995-3 FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 4 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen Table of Contents Foreword 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Suggestions for Using this Book 20 THE CALENDAR OF THE CHURCH YEAR 23 THE PROPERS FOR SAINTS’ DAYS 37 with Biographical Notices READINGS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE SAINTS 387 and Supplementary Notices Acknowledgements 775 Appendix (recent additions to the Calendar) 779 Index 790 FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 5 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen FAS-Revised-pgs1-6.prn 6 D:\Anglican\ForAlltheSaints\ForAlltheSaints.vp Friday, September 28, 2007 1:36:20 PM Foreword Foreword In every time and place God calls women, men, and children to holiness. This vocation, rooted in our baptism, is the summit of Christ’s work in us. In the commemoration of saints the Church celebrates Christ’s victory in the lives of particular individuals who have inspired their own and succeeding generations. The commemoration of saints has always been a part of the Anglican tradition and has evolved over the centuries. The reformers of the XVIc. used the naive (and historically flawed) principle of biblical literalism to pare down the myriad commemorations they inherited from the mediaeval calendars. Only those saints whose names could be found in scripture were celebrated liturgically. Other names included in the calendar were largely for secular, rather than liturgical, use. Modern revision of Anglican Calendars can be dated from the publication of Walter Howard Frere’s Some Principles of Liturgical Reform (London, 1911) in which he suggested the addition of contemporary names to future revisions of the Prayer Book. The Book of Common Prayer (1962) adopted Frere’s suggestion and incorporated a large number of post-Reformation names in its Calendar. How these persons were to be commemorated liturgically, however, remained unclear. Archbishop Harold Sexton’s The Canadian Book of Occasional Offices (Toronto, 1964) provided liturgical material only for the pre- Reformation entries, giving the curious impression that the Church’s commemoration of God’s call to holiness could not go beyond the XVIc. Further developments within Anglicanism — particularly work emerging from the Lambeth Conferences of 1958 and 1988 — established that it is both possible and permissible for Anglican churches to commemorate the saints of every age, including our own. Further- more, it is clear that the title “saint” may be applied to all those who are included in Anglican Calendars. For All the Saints is intended to help enrich our celebration of the communion of saints in the Anglican Church of Canada. It has been almost twenty years in the making. Initially, Dean David Carter had intended to produce a Canadian supplement to Lesser Feasts and Fasts of the Episcopal Church. The major reform of the Calendar to be included in the Book of Alternative Services made it clear that a much larger project was necessary in order to meet the needs of Canadian Anglicanism. In June of 1980, as Chair of the Calendar Sub-Committee of the National Doctrine and Worship Committee, I asked Stephen Reynolds to compile a work that would provide liturgical propers as well Foreword 7 as a short biography that could be used within the liturgy for all the entries in the Calendar of the Book of Alternative Services. Neither he nor I imagined the immensity of the task he agreed to undertake. This task was expanded when the committee decided to append for devotional reading a number of texts from the writings of the saints commemorated. Some of these appear in new translations made by Dr. Reynolds from the Greek and Latin originals. Dr. Reynold’s con- tribution to the life of the Anglican Church of Canada is an important one and needs to be recognized as such. The task of working through the proposed texts fell to the Calendar Sub-Committee. Hundreds of hours were spent reading the texts aloud — so that they are as much for the ear as for the eye — and refining them until the Committee felt that they would best serve the Canadian Church. The members of that committee — Tom Cain, John Hill, Maud McLean, Archie Skirving, Ansley Tucker, and Keith Whittingham — played a vital role in forming the present text and for that also deserve the thanks of all those who will use this material. Finally, it is important to acknowledge the support of the National Doctrine and Worship Committee through the long gestation period of this book and particularly Bishop Joachim Fricker who, as Chair of the Committee through the most creative part of the Sub-Committee’s work, gave us the courage to see the project to its end. David R. Holeton Chair, Calendar Sub-Committee 8 Foreword Preface Preface For All the Saints is a supplement to the Calendar of the Church Year, as printed in The Book of Alternative Services (1985) and amended by General Synod in 1989. It offers, in a single volume, a variety of resources for the observance of those festivals which occur on fixed dates. This includes most Principal Feasts and Holy Days as well as all Memorials and Com- memorations. The present book has been more than ten years in the making. In the autumn of 1979 the Doctrine and Worship Committee of General Synod approved a proposed revision of the Calendar of the Church Year. At the same time, the Committee endorsed the preparation of a volume which would include proper prayers and readings, together with biographical notices, for each of the persons commemorated. This volume was to be modelled on The Proper for the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, a publication of the Episcopal Church of the United States. The Reverend Stephen Reynolds was asked to compile such a volume. A first draft was presented to the Doctrine and Worship Committee in 1981–1982. This draft subsequently underwent trial use by selected Angli- can parishes and communities across Canada. In 1987 the Doctrine and Worship Committee established a Calendar Editorial Sub-committee and charged it with the task of reviewing, revising, and preparing the docu- ment for publication. The members of this Sub-committee were: Professor Tom Cain, the Reverend John W. B. Hill, the Reverend Professor David R. Holeton (chair), Mrs Maud McLean, the Reverend Dr Stephen Reynolds, the Reverend Dr A. H. Skirving, the Reverend M. Ansley Tucker, and the Reverend Keith Whittingham. The Calendar Editorial Sub-committee clarified or developed a number of guidelines for the present work. Proper Prayers. In the past, proper prayers for saints’ days usually have been so generic in content that it often made little difference whose name was inserted. Lesser Feasts and Fasts established the principle that “each Collect be distinctive of the person commemorated, or of that aspect of the Church’s life to which that person contributed most signifi- cantly.” For All the Saints strives to continue this principle and to apply it not only to the Collects but also to the Prayers over the Gifts and the Prayers after Communion. Biographical Information. True celebration of the saints requires informed remembrance of their lives. Therefore, following the example of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, the present work provides a biographical notice for each person commemorated. The Calendar Editorial Sub-committee has aimed at making these notices succinct enough to be contained on a single page, but with sufficient detail to give a real sense of why the Church commemorates that person. The Sub-committee has also been conscious that the notices may be read aloud, and heard, in the liturgical assembly. With this in mind, the short biographical notices have been carefully Preface 9 edited so that they may be spoken easily, and readily understood by the listening ear.

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