Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
This book, produced by the “Works of Robert Crouse” project, is a collection of six addresses on the theme of pilgrimage which were delivered by the Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse to a clergy retreat held at St. Augustine’s Monastery, Nova Scotia, in the 1980s.
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The 2024 Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society of Canada was held via Zoom on Saturday, May 11th. The financial statements and the reports that were presented at the meeting can be read here.
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Our longstanding goal of adding audio content has begun to come to fruition! Musical setting audio, voiced by Heidi Fewster, can now be heard for Compline.
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This is a project that has recently been undertaken by Dr. Crouse’s former students to pass on in publication form “his profound philosophical thinking that gathers up the riches of the Western intellectual tradition, interpreted by caritas.”
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The Very Revd. Chris Dow provides an update on the initiatives to expand the app to include French and Inuktitut, and to include musical settings for the liturgies, beginning with Compline.
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PBSC National Chairman the Revd. Canon Dr. Gordon Maitland reviews a memoir of the late Archbishop Harold Nutter, whose ministry spanned some of the most tumultuous times in the history of the Anglican Church of Canada.
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The annual PBSC bursaries programme is now open. The Society offers bursaries of up to $1,000 to theological students who support the use of the Book of Common Prayer. The deadline for applications is November 3rd, 2023.
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This prayer, spearheaded by members of the PBSC, was formally approved at General Synod in late June and will be included in all future printings of the BCP.
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The PBSC has produced a statement on MAiD, pointing out how it departs from “the faith once delivered to the saints” and commenting on the shortcomings of the Anglican Church of Canada’s response to it.
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The Revd. Ben Crosby, an Episcopal priest studying at McGill University, reflects upon his initiative to offer a weekly chapel service of BCP Holy Communion in an “unashamedly traditional Anglican manner”, following the ceremonial that was normative for Anglicanism through most of its existence.
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