Anglican worship is organized around a rich liturgical calendar, including the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost (Ordinary Time). The Book of Common Prayer specifies proper collects, epistles, and gospels for each Sunday and major feast day throughout the year. This liturgical calendar is deeply embedded in Anglican identity and is one of the clearest structural differences from Puritan and some evangelical traditions.

Saints' days are observed in the Anglican calendar — the Prayer Book includes commemorations of Apostles, Martyrs, and other saints — though in a Protestant sense: the saints are remembered and their example celebrated, but they are not invoked as intercessors. The liturgical calendar is understood as a means of forming Christian life and imagination through the regular rehearsal of the story of salvation. Contemporary Anglican prayer books have expanded and revised the sanctoral calendar to include more diverse figures from Christian history.