Bishop Michael Ingham and the parishes and organizations of the Diocese of New Westminster welcomes you to the holidayservices website.

This website is designed to welcome visitors from within the diocese and beyond with information about worship and events associated with Festival times of the year. Advent/Christmas and Lent/HolyWeek. The site will be updated by the second week of February with worship and events information for Lent/Holy Week/Easter 2012. Ash Wednesday is February 22nd. Easter Day is April 8th.

 

Glossary

(Many thanks to Wikipedia and Reverend Ken Collins) 

Book of Alternative Services (BAS)

Book of Common Prayer (BCP): The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922. The revision of 1959 was much more substantial, bearing a family relationship to that of the abortive 1928 book in England. The language was conservatively modernized, and additional seasonal material was added. As in England, while many prayers were retained the structure of the Communion service was altered: a Prayer of Oblation was added to the Eucharistic prayer after the 'words of institution', thus reflecting the rejection of Cranmer's theology in liturgical developments across the Anglican Communion. More controversially, the Psalter included in the book omitted certain sections, including the entirety of Psalm 58^[3]. General Synod gave final authorization to the revision in 1962, to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.(From Wikipedia)

After a period of experimentation with the publication of various supplements, the Book of Alternative Services was published in 1985. This book (which owes much to Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and other sources) has widely supplanted the 1959 book, though the latter remains authorized.