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The Communion of Saints
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The Christian Church has observed All Saint’s Day for centuries. As the Church spread throughout the world, it came into contact with many pagan ideas. One idea it encountered in Europe was the superstition that the dead returned to haunt the living on October 31. Some enterprising people seized on that superstition. They dressed up as ghosts and spirits and tormented the superstitious until they received either money or treats. It was this pagan practice that gave birth to many of the current Halloween practices of “trick or treat.” Early on, the Church decided that it needed to combat these false ideas by replacing them with something that was worthwhile. The people in the early church agreed to celebrate All Saints’ Day every November 1. We continue to observe the day in the 21st century. However, because there is some measure of confusion over the term “saint,” some congregations prefer not to celebrate the day. So, who are the “saints?” How are saints different from sinners? What is the “Communion of Saints” we mention in the Apostles’ Creed and elsewhere? What is our relationship to all this?
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