The Communion of Saints

By: A M Allchin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 049

The ‘communion of Saints’ is a phrase that originally implied a sharing in holy things by holy persons. However, holiness desires to share itself. We pray, yet why do we pray, what do we pray for, and what do we hope to achieve or attain in prayer? Allchin examines a number of historical examples in seeking answers to both these questions and the greater one, who are the Saints? This text examines our place among the Saints and our access to that great communion through prayer. Arthur MacDonald Allchin (1930-2010), best known as Donald Allchin, was ordained priest in 1957 and later became a Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He first gained recognition as a writer with ‘The Silent Rebellion’, a study of the nineteenth-century recovery of the monastic life in the Anglican Church. He was Warden for many years of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and the Society of the Sacred Cross at Tymawr. His interests in ecumenism and in the language, religion and culture of Wales were reflected in his becoming Director of the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality in Oxford 1987-94 and subsequently an honorary Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales in Bangor.