Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
This annual event for youth aged 13-19 has been running in the Maritimes for 33 years! Participants pray together using the BCP, learn about the Anglican tradition, and relax and play in a beautiful riverside setting. Highly recommended!
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Visit our “Stay in Touch” page, which contains a link to the “Membership” page where you can find details as to what membership in the Society involves, and a portal where you can sign up.
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In response to numerous requests, the Society is currently engaged in adding the French translation of the 1962 Canadian BCP to the Common Prayer Canada app. The Very Revd. Chris Dow, who chairs the app development committee, provides an update on this project.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Jesse Billett of the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, Toronto, explains how the 1962 Canadian BCP remains true to the foundational principles of the Anglican way of being Christian, and highlights the theological consensus that was a hallmark of the book.
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The Revd. Benjamin von Bredow provides an update on this project, begun last year, to compile a set of optional Old Testament lessons to complement the Prayer Book eucharistic lections.
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This four-part video series, led by theologian Dr. Edith Humphrey and produced by the PBSC under the “Parish Alive!” initiative in 2005, has been refurbished and posted on YouTube.
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This book is a compilation of hundreds of prayers, thematically arranged, drawn almost exclusively from the Canadian Book of Common Prayer. A review of it appeared in the Michaelmas 2022 issue of the PBSC Newsletter.
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The Revd. Benjamin von Bredow describes this new project to compile a set of optional Old Testament readings for Communion services, and explains the reasons for embarking upon it.
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