'Our confession approves giving honour to the saints' - really?: Towards a calendar for ritual memory retention downunder: Part 2

The following presentation continues my exploratory article, a draft calendar, to give honour to the saints and martyrs and to make suggestions for commemorations. Part 1, with an introduction, was published in a previous edition of this journal. The calendar presented there included the months of J...

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Published inLutheran theological journal Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 118 - 129
Main Author Nuske, Stephen G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Adelaide Australian Lutheran College 01.12.2019
Subjects
Archives & records
Calendars
Christianity
Confessions
Hagiography
Lutheran Church
Lutheran churches
Memorial service
Minority & ethnic groups
Reformation
Religious congregations
Rites & ceremonies
Saints
New Zealand
Australia
Papua New Guinea
France
Australasia
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Summary:The following presentation continues my exploratory article, a draft calendar, to give honour to the saints and martyrs and to make suggestions for commemorations. Part 1, with an introduction, was published in a previous edition of this journal. The calendar presented there included the months of January and February. Here we continue with a few additions which were overlooked for January and February. To remember a few salient points from Part 1, 'Our Confession approves giving honour to the saints' is a reference to Article 21 of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession. The Augsburg Confession, and particularly the Apology, outline a positive, evangelical and catholic approach to the saints which puts the spotlight on Christ. To recap, the Eucharistic liturgies of the church, cosmic in scope, remind us of the saints, present with us. The Church has a memory like an elephant. This is a huge Sunday attendance beyond the grasp of a Church Life survey. The questions I raised earlier were to do with the subject of amnesia in the church. By church, and I detest acronyms - which are unknown by migrants - I mean the whole caboodle: catholic, ecumenical; as per the outlook of the Lutheran Confessions, including the Lutheran communion in New Zealand and Australia; that is, Australasia, with a nod to Papua New Guinea and South East Asia, and the Pacific. I also raised several questions in Part 1: do we have a problem with the saints? How do we honour them? What are we to do with them? Aren't we all saints anyway, canonised at our baptism?
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Lutheran Theological Journal, Vol. 53, No. 3, Dec 2019: 118-129
ISSN:0024-7553