Prayer Book Society Sheffield Diocesan Branch

06/06/2025

Some future dates include:

Sunday 29th June 2025 at 4.00pm – Evensong in Sheffield Cathedral, Church Street, Sheffield, S1 1HA

Wednesday 9th July 2025 at 10.30am - Sheffield PBS Branch meeting at St Nicholas Church, High Bradfield, S6 6LG followed by lunch for those who wish (please book with Philip at [email protected]) at the Old Horns Inn, Towngate High Bradfield, S6 6LG

Sunday 5th October 2025 at 3.00pm – Sung Evensong and Benediction at St Matthew, 45 Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FT. The Red Fr Grant Naylor SSC will officiate and the Revd Canon Fr Geoffrey Harbord SSC will preach; followed by light refreshments.

At the beginning of the Academic Year in autumn 2025 the Sheffield University and Hallam University Anglican Society will host a Mass according to the Book of Common Prayer rite, to which local PBS members will be welcome. Further details to follow later,

28/06/2024

Sheffield Branch of the PBS Choral Evensong on Sunday 29th September 2024

There will be Choral Evensong and Benediction at St Matthew, Carver Street, Sheffield, S1 4FT, on Sunday 28th September 2024 at 3.00pm, by kind permission of the parish priest, the Revd Fr Grant Naylor SSC.

The Revd Canon Andrew Sage SSC, Master of Archbishop Holgate Hospital has kindly agreed to be the preacher.

The Sheffield Branch of the PBS warmly invites you to join in this liturgy, which will be followed by refreshments.

For further information please feel free to contact Fr Philip Reynolds - [email protected] - 07805 509469

11/07/2023

Please kindly note that the next meeting of the Sheffield Diocesan Branch of the Prayer Book Society is on Wednesday 26th July 2023 at 10.30am in Sheffield Cathedral, S1 1HA, for Holy Communion followed by a meeting. If you would like the following lunch at the nearby Cafe Piazza (and have not let Dr Rosemary Walker know) then please let me know - [email protected] - before Wed 19/06/2023, thank you, Philip

You might also like to know that on Sunday 17th September 2023 at 3.00pm we shall have sung BCP Evening Prayer at Beauchief Abbey, Beauchief Abbey Lane, Sheffield, S8 7BD.

Then on Sunday 1st October 2023 at 3.00pm you are also welcome to BCP Choral Evensong for the feast-tide of St Michael and All Angels at St Matthew, Carver Street, Sheffield, S1 4FT, courtesy of the parish priest, the Revd Fr Grant Naylor SSC. The preacher is the Revd Canon Fr Andrew Sage SSC.

25/03/2023

The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla -

The Coronation of King Charles III takes place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023. The Coronation will be an important opportunity to invite people to take part in the same kind of worship as...

09/03/2023

We have been asked to publicise the following event which will be sung by the Steel City Choristers : -

Evensong on Sunday 12th March 2023 at 6.30 p.m. at St Mary’s Church Ecclesfield, to be filmed by ‘Picture That’ Productions for television, as part of a crowd-funded documentary about Choral Evensong based on Simon Reynolds’ book Lighten Our Darkness.



See https://steelcitychoristers.org.uk/ for more information about this excellent choir, whom we have heard already at Beauchief Abbey.

Yours sincerely,

STEEL CITY CHORISTERS Our exciting and innovative choir of children and adults is rooted in the English choral tradition. We offer our choristers a free first-class musical education and run singing workshops in schools linked to the Model Music Curriculum. We serve a wide range of communities aroun...

14/01/2023

Book of Common Prayer Matins (Morning Prayer) for the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady in Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield S8 7BD, on Thursday 2nd February 2023 at 10.30am.

14/01/2023

New services at Southwell Minster

12/01/2023

On 11/01/2023 the "Telegraph" reported that the Church Commissioners are providing £100 million 'to address past wrongs of slavery'. Now slavery and any form of racism is utterly corrupt and abhorrent.

I repeat: slavery and any form of racism is utterly corrupt and abhorrent (along with homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, islamophobia, antisemitism, etc, and so on).

But concerning this particular response to a wrong of two centuries ago (the British Empire abolished slavery in the 1830's) Marcus Walker (of Save The Parish) wrote this:

'Suddenly the Church has money. After decades of telling us that there is no money to fund the churches and priests who keep the church alive on the front line, suddenly they've found £100 million behind the back of the sofa.

Only last year they told us they couldn't afford to fund the £12 million which would have cleared all the deficits run up by churches which were caused by Covid, or the £24 million which would clear the deficits in dioceses.

How can the Church have the brass neck ever to ask for another
penny from its parishes again?'

23/12/2022

This Christmas Eve, when people pour out of the pub and head to Midnight Mass to belt out their old favourites, they could get a shock

29/11/2022

A Zoom link you may be interested in:

The Four Last Things: death, judgement, heaven and hell. For centuries, the Church has used Advent as a time not only of preparation for the celebration of Christ’s birth, but also of deep reflection...

21/10/2022

All of the services at Beauchief Abbey, Beauchief Abbey Lane, Sheffield, S8 7BD, are from the Book of Common Prayer:

Services Weekly Services Weekly services of public worship are held at the Abbey, continuing a tradition of Christian witness and prayer on this site that dates back to the 12th century. You are very welcome to join us. Liturgy The services at the Abbey follow The Book of Common Prayer. This was pub...

21/10/2022

Some of the liturgy at Sheffield Cathedral is worship according to the Book of Common Prayer:

The Cathedral is a centre for Christian worship in the Diocese of Sheffield and home to a vibrant and diverse community of people who share a faith in Jesus Christ. We invite you to join us at one of our many and regular services.