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This is our message to all the world… This Gospel is for you, and this good news – great news – is for you and for all of creation. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for all times and all peoples, because his death and resurrection is eternally and universally relevant.
In her masterful 19th century metrical rendering of the ancient Irish hymn ‘St. Patrick’s breastplate’, Cecil Alexander recounts our Lord’s Resurrection with this remarkable line: “His bursting from the spicèd tomb.” The verse captures, with a profound clarity and depth, the sense and significance of this day…
In an interesting development, this new lectionary that was developed under the auspices of the PBSC to supplement the BCP eucharistic lections has been approved for trial use in some Florida parishes.
In an exciting development, the Revd. Chris Dow, one of the national Vice-Chairmen of the PBSC, has been appointed as the chaplain of Wycliffe College in Toronto. Fr. Dow describes his experiences since arriving at the College.
The Rt. Revd. William Cliff, the Bishop of the Diocese of Ontario, recently accepted the invitation of the PBSC to become its new Episcopal Visitor. Bishop Cliff speaks eloquently of the influence of the BCP in his spiritual life.
The 2025 Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society of Canada will be held via Zoom on Saturday, May 31st at 2:00 pm EDT. Watch here for further details…
Including items from two Canadian Anglican theological giants, the Revd. Dr. J.I. Packer and the Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse.
PBSC National Chairman the Revd. Canon Dr. Gordon Maitland attended this conference, organized annually by the American Prayer Book Society, and writes about what an enjoyable and inspiring event it was, commenting on two particularly insightful papers that were presented.
PBSC National Vice-Chairman the Revd. Chris Dow offers a review of this new resource for daily prayer developed by the ACC, acknowledging its strengths but pointing out its shortcomings in the areas of canticles, doxologies, affirmations of faith, and the psalter.
An address given by Dr. Packer to members of the PBSC on November 2nd, 1996 at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Kitchener, Ontario. Dr. Packer gives a penetrating analysis of the meaning and importance of Scriptural authority.
In this address delivered in Toronto in 2004, Dr. Crouse explains the coherence and interconnectedness of the Bible readings that are appointed in the Prayer Book eucharistic lectionary for Lent and the three Sundays preceding it.
Read it now: The Book of Common Prayer, “a book so scriptural that it is full of scripture from one end to the other, and built altogether upon it!”
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