Editing Communion of saints (section)

=== Methodism ===
In [[Methodist]] theology, the communion of saints refers to the Church Militant and Church Triumphant. The Rev. Katie Shockley explains the communion of saints in the context of the Methodist sacrament of the [[Eucharist]]:<ref name="Shockley2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.umnews.org/en/news/ask-the-umc-what-does-communion-of-saints-mean|title=Ask the UMC: What does 'communion of saints' mean?|date=30 October 2017|publisher=[[The United Methodist Church]]|language=en|access-date=11 October 2018|archive-date=11 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011133305/https://www.umnews.org/en/news/ask-the-umc-what-does-communion-of-saints-mean|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{blockquote|When we gather in worship, we praise God with believers we cannot see. When we celebrate Holy Communion, we feast with past, present and future disciples of Christ. We experience the communion of saints, the community of believers –– living and dead. This faith community stretches beyond space and time. We commune with Christians around the world, believers who came before us, and believers who will come after us. We believe that the church is the communion of saints, and as a believer, you belong to the communion of saints.<ref name="Shockley2017"/>}}

The communion of saints is celebrated in Methodism during [[Allhallowtide]], especially on [[All Saints' Day]].<ref name="Shockley2017"/>

Methodist theology affirms the "duty to observe, to pray for the Faithful Departed".<ref name="Walker1885">{{cite book |last=Walker |first=Walter James |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_16943 |title=Chapters on the Early Registers of Halifax Parish Church |publisher=Whitley & Booth |year=1885 |page=20 |language=en |quote=The opinion of the Rev. John Wesley may be worth citing. 'I believe it to be a duty to observe, to pray for the Faithful Departed.'}}</ref> [[John Wesley]], the founder of Methodism, "taught the propriety of Praying for the Dead, practised it himself, provided ''Forms'' that others might."<ref name="HoldenWesley1872">{{cite book |last=Holden |first=Harrington William |url=https://archive.org/details/johnwesleyincom00weslgoog |title=John Wesley in Company with High Churchmen |publisher=J. Hodges |year=1872 |location=London |page=84 |quote=Wesley taught the propriety of Praying for the Dead, practised it himself, provided ''Forms'' that others might. These forms, for daily use, he put fort, not tentatively or apologetically, but as considering such prayer a settled matter of Christian practice, with all who believe that the Faithful, living and dead, are one Body in Christ in equal need and like expectation of those blessings which they will together enjoy, when both see Him in His Kingdom. Two or three examples, out of many, may be given:&ndash;'O grant that we, with those who are already dead in Thy faith and fear, may together partake of a joyful resurrection.'}}</ref> It affirms that the "saints in paradise" have full access to occurrences on earth.<ref name="Atkins2016">{{cite book |last=Atkins |first=Gareth |title=Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain |date=1 August 2016 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9781526100238 |page=227 |language=en |quote=In the other direction, he was willing to state unambiguously that the 'saints in paradise' had full access to happenings on earth.}}</ref>