The Book of Alternative Services (BAS) is the contemporary, inclusive-language liturgical book used alongside the Book of Common Prayer (1962) (BCP) in a number of parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada. A liturgical book is a book published by the authority of a Church, that contains the text and directions for the Liturgy of its official Religious services The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches The Anglican Church of Canada is the sole Canadian representative of the Anglican Communion. Unlike the BCP, it uses the Revised Common Lectionary. The Revised Common Lectionary is a Lectionary of readings or Pericopes from the Bible for use in Christian Worship making provision for the Liturgical year When first, published the BAS included the Common Lectionary, but in printings since the publication of the RCL, the latter has superseded the original lectionary.
The BAS was published in 1985 based on a number of experimental liturgical texts that had been in use in the 1960s and 1970s. It sparked some opposition from traditionalists who continue to question the Book's theological and linguistic soundness. The mobilization against the BAS has been led by the Prayer Book Society of Canada. The Prayer Book Society of Canada is an organization within the Anglican Church of Canada which "promotes the understanding and use of the Book of Common Prayer The controversy has been called the "trad-rad" debate (i. e. "traditional" vs. "radical").
The BAS contains two services of the Eucharist—one contemporary and one more in line with the language of the 1962 Prayer Book. The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names is a Christian Sacrament by which in a common interpretation those The latter text, developed at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Toronto), is sometimes known as the "Toronto Rite" and is a bone of contention amongst Prayer Book Anglicans [1]. The Church of St Mary Magdalene is an Anglo-Catholic parish of the Anglican Church of Canada located in Toronto. There are also contemporary rite versions of Morning and Evening Prayer; these have not taken hold, in part because the service of Morning Prayer has in large part been supplanted by weekly Eucharist as the main Sunday service. Morning Prayer (also Mattins or Matins) in the various editions of the Book of Common Prayer and other Anglican liturgical texts Evening Prayer is a Liturgy in use in the Anglican Communion (and other churches in the Anglican tradition such as the Continuing Anglican Movement and Contemporary wedding, funeral and other pastoral rites, however, have been welcomed very widely.
Use of the BAS varies from parish to parish. In some congregations, the principal Sunday service is according to the BCP, while in others, the contemporary liturgy dominates. However, in most dioceses, the trend is increasingly toward the BAS.
Bishop Michael Ingham is the author of an important apologia for the BAS, called Rites for a New Age. Michael Ingham may refer to Michael Ingham (bishop, English bishop Michael Ingham (footballer, English-born Northern Irish footballer
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