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Two prayer books linking Old England with modern Canada will be celebrated by Anglicans in Victoria next weekend.
On Sept. 8 and 9 in a special weekend of services, Christ Church Cathedral will be marking two anniversaries: the 350th anniversary of the 1662 adoption of the Book of Common Prayer in England and the 50th anniversary of adoption of the Canadian Book of Common Prayer.
Ian Alexander, a Christ Church parishioner helping to organize the events, said Canadian Anglicans are lucky to be able to celebrate "a double anniversary."
"We have something that we have inherited from England (The original Book of Common Prayer)," Alexander said.
"But we also have continued in this country making our own contributions, refining and reshaping it to make it uniquely Canadian (Canadian Book of Common Prayer)."
According to Alexander and Rev. Logan McMenamie, rector at Christ Church, the original Book of Common Prayer marks one of the milestones in English-language religious life and its reformation.
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