What does BAS stand for?

Book of Alternative Services (Anglican Church of Canada)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Dear editor, Re: Sexuality and cornflakes (September letters) In the last paragraph of Eric and Joy Magill's letter, they say the problem with the Anglican Church of Canada is having two prayer books, and that the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) has been with us for 25 years.

Spiritual prayer book

I am a supporter of the Book of Common Prayer although I also like the Book of Alternative Services.

Adapt to society

Gibson served as editor of the Book of Alternative Services and manager of the 1998 hymnbook project, Common Praise.

Retiring liturgist managed Common Praise hymnal project

It is unfortunate that the Prayer Book has become consistently less appreciated since the 1980s, the benefits of the Book of Alternative Services notwithstanding.

Not nostalgia junkies

Episcopal Church, to Canada's Book of Alternative Services or the Church of England's Common Worship--all are prayer books.

BCP: a finished product or a work in progress?

Gibson, now retired, helped to edit the Book of Alternative Services and was project manager of the 1998 hymn book, Common Praise.

Anglican award

Then in 1985, the Anglican Church of Canada produced the Book of Alternative Services (BAS) and thereafter, its hymn book Common Praise (1998).

New worship book is respectful of diversity

Opting to worship in their preferred way probably describes what most Canadian Anglicans have chosen to do whether their preference is for the BCP or the Book of Alternative Services.

What it means to be the church