And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear; beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom ... There is a deeply catholic, ecumenical emphasis to the commemoration of the faithful departed in the Prayer for the Church Militant: " all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear". All. Irrespective of the theological school to which they subscribed. Irrespective of the ecclesiastical polity in which they lived (or governed). Irrespective of confessional disagreements. We give thanks for all who, having confessed the faith of Christ in their earthly lives, now rest in the fullness of the heavenly kingdom. Hooker points to how an understanding of the Church invisible underpins this generous, catholic, ecumenical emphasis: That Church of Christ which we properly terme his body mysticall, can be but one, neither can that one bee sensiblie disc...
Protestant Episcopalian - Burkean - clerk in holy orders