There are Prayer Book Societies active all over the Anglican world! In 1993 & 1994, The Prayer Book Society in Australia published a number of pamphlets containing homilies from the First Book of Homilies (1547).

These include all the titles listed on the foregoing page, and the text has been copied from those pamphlets. According to the foreword printed in one such copy, the work of printing the'Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture' was undertaken due to the efforts of the Committee of the Society, and the skill of Mr. James Hutton, then (in May 1994) Honourary Secretary.

This first pamphlet met with wide interest and popularity, and more were printed in 1994, with the intent of helping church people to move towards a clearer understanding of major aspects of the faith. Chairman Anthony Bailey writes:

This is all part of our desire to provide high quality publications on matters relating in particular to the liturgy and doctrines set forth in the Book of Common Prayer and also to discuss in both a scholarly and practical fashion the principles of Anglicanism within the Christian scene.

In addition to The Homilies, they have been active in producing other publications, a partial list of which follows below.

• Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 1489-1556: An Ecumenical Symposium, edited by the Rev'd Profesor Ian Breward.
• George Herbert (1593-1633) Priest, Poet & Caroline Divine. Anthony C. Bailey
• Hooker and the Book of Common Prayer. The Rev'd Professor Ian Breward
• Current Issues in the Church of England. David Martin, VP, The Prayerbook Society of the UK.
• The Devotional use of the Book of Common Prayer. The Rev'd David Roberts
• The Wesley Hymn Book of 1780. Dr. Robin Sharwood
• The Place of the Book of Common Prayer in the Constitution and Canon Law of the Anglican Church of Australia: An Introduction and Overview. by Dr. Robin Sharwood
• By Mr. Henry L. Speagle:
  • The Horizontal Heresy
  • The Celestial Aureole
  • A Window to Eternity
  • The Culture of Change
• The Prayer Book and Cathedral Worship. The Very Rev'd David Thawley

Details of pricing and postage of all these publications listed above (and The Homilies) are obtainable from:
Mrs. G. Smith, Literature Secretary, PBS. 2/57 Durham St., Eaglemont VIC. 3084, AUSTRALIA

Phone:
(03) 457-1814 within Australia
61 3 457 1814 overseas

To the best of our knowledge at this time, the PBS in Australia has no e-mail address or homepage.