Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
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.
Read more
In this article, written in 2022 for the 60th anniversary year of the 1962 Canadian BCP, the Revd. Gordon Maitland, the national chairman of the PBSC, describes some unique and historically significant Prayer Books that are in his private collection.
Read more
An essay on the timeless character of the Prayer Book, written by Matthew Lee, one of the PBSC bursary recipients in 2021. It provides an eloquent perspective from the viewpoint of a relatively new Anglican from a non-English background.
Read more