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Hello and Happy November 1, aka “All Saints/All Hallows Day” within the Christian faith.
So I’m a life-long United Methodist (which is a mainline Protestant denomination within Christianity), and come from a long line of Protestant folks…honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if my family’s Protestant origins go all the way back to the Reformation in Germany in the early 1500′s. And I’m also one of those people who likes to acknowledge different holidays, be they sacred or secular, on her blog. But a majority of everything I see about All Saints Day is specific to Catholicism.
That isn’t a bad thing, but it does feel a *little* exclusive, which I feel comes from a place of simply not knowing that many Protestant churches, at least mainline Protestants (Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, UCC, DoC, and even some Baptists) ALSO celebrate and acknowledge All Saints Day…but simply in *different* manner.
It is true, in Protestantism, we don’t put an emphasis on specific saints the same way our Catholic or Orthodox brothers and sisters do. That doesn’t mean, however, that we do not acknowledge them.
In Protestantism (and this could very well be true in Catholicism as well, I simply don’t know, so I am acknowledging my own ignorance here) a “saint” is a person who has passed away. This can range from people like Julian of Norwich or Saint Patrick, to a layperson who has recently passed away. Basically, a “saint” within Protestantism is a person who followed the teachings of Jesus, living his commandment to love God and neighbor.
A common tradition within many Protestant churches is to mark the first Sunday of November as “All Saints Sunday”, and have a “naming of the saints” moment in worship, where the names of all those who have passed away that year are read aloud. Candles are lit by the congregation, in honor of those who have died be it recently, or many years ago. The service tends to be a mixture of somberness and celebration–somberness as we acknowledge and hear the names of the saints who have gone before us, but celebration for their life and the legacy they have left.
Personally, I love All Saints Sunday and see it as one of Christianity’s “high holy days” in the religious calendar.
Anyway, I just wanted to offer a Protestant’s perspective of the day, and I hope it was helpful and perhaps even you learned something.
So to those that celebrate, Happy All Saints/All Hallows Day! And a blessed All Souls Day, which takes place tomorrow (Nov. 2)
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