Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
Shawn Smith, a member of the Viking Historical Society, describes the efforts of himself and other local volunteers to rescue a lovely historic church from abandonment and neglect, and restore Prayer Book services within it.
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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.
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We are delighted to report that at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the PBSC, recently retired Bishop Michael Hawkins was elected as its new Honorary President, in recognition of his long-standing support of the Society.
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PBSC National Chairman the Revd. Canon Dr. Gordon Maitland reflects upon the “Page 230” traditional language eucharistic rite contained in the Book of Alternative Services, and speculates on the reasons for its inclusion.
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A sermon given on the first Sunday in Lent by the Rev’d David Curry, the rector of Christ Church in Windsor, NS, chaplain and faculty member of King’s-Edgehill School, and one of the PBSC’s longest-serving national Vice-Chairmen.
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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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