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View Poll Results: Do you pray to the saints? | |
Yes
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No
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3rd April 2007, 07:08 PM
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Do you, as an Anglican/Episcopalian, pray to the Saints?  Please vote in the poll. |
3rd April 2007, 07:10 PM
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Reps: 77,977,839,472,637 (power: 0) | | | I do pray to the saints. |
3rd April 2007, 07:22 PM
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Reps: 4,302,070 (power: 4,322) | | | I voted no, because it has never been part of my background or my spirituality to do so.
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3rd April 2007, 08:48 PM
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Reps: 17 (power: 0) | | From the Anglican point of view, it's not something one would do, as in Article 22: "The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God."
However, the Oxford Movement had an interpretation on this article: http://anglicanhistory.org/tracts/tract90/section6.html |
3rd April 2007, 09:17 PM
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Reps: 77,977,839,472,637 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by tintinnabulation  From the Anglican point of view, it's not something one would do, as in Article 22: "The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God."
However, the Oxford Movement had an interpretation on this article: http://anglicanhistory.org/tracts/tract90/section6.html
But today we do not have to obey the Thirty-Nine Articles do we? I personally see nothing wrong with praying to the saints. I wouldn't collect relics though. That's just me though. I don't see anything wrong with someone who does. |
3rd April 2007, 09:35 PM
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Reps: 36,840,561 (power: 36,847) | | As a nonAnglican, I didn't vote. However, I do pray the Rosary and ask for the intercession of our brethren in Heaven. 
__________________ Gracious Father, we pray for thy holy Catholic Church. Fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it; where in any thing it is amiss, reform it. Where it is right, strengthen it; where it is in want, provide for it; where it is divided, reunite it; for the sake of Jesus Christ thy Son our Savior. Amen. |
3rd April 2007, 09:51 PM
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4th April 2007, 12:39 AM
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Reps: 3,388,865,156,004 (power: 3,388,865,163) | | | Technically, nobody prays to the Saints. Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and those of a similar tradition venerate the Saints. Actually praying to the Saints would be a form of worship, which strictly speaking is prohibited by the RCC and utterly foreign to the EO's.
I have and do venerate Saints & Relics, but only when the occasion presents itself or the mood strikes me. I was briefly in RCIA and am a baptised EO, but my current Church has no position on this that Im aware of. I'll ask around and get back to you.
Pax Vobiscum.
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4th April 2007, 02:48 AM
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Reps: 186,756 (power: 202) | | | I do not pray to the Saints...
I do pray for Saints Tickets on a regular basis (Run, Reggie, Run)...
but seriously folks...
I don't pray to the Saints but I do pray a Rosery (sometimes)...
asking the Saints to pray for you and praying to them are 2 different things...
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4th April 2007, 05:57 AM
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| | Join Date: 31st May 2004 Location: Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
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Reps: 77,977,839,472,637 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by RedneckAnglican I do not pray to the Saints...
I do pray for Saints Tickets on a regular basis (Run, Reggie, Run)...
but seriously folks...
I don't pray to the Saints but I do pray a Rosery (sometimes)...
asking the Saints to pray for you and praying to them are 2 different things...
Well I meant do you ask them to pray for you.  | | |
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