Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Alcuin Reid talk in Plymouth, MI. Registration now open.

The Research Institute for Catholic Liturgy has made available now the registration form for Deacon Alcuin Reid's one day conference:

Looking Again at the Liturgical Reform: The Implementation of Sacrosanctum Concilium

4 June 2006, Plymouth, Michigan

Join Dr Alcuin Reid, author of The Organic Development of the Liturgy, for a one-day seminar on the implementation of the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum concilium. Does the work of those who revised the Catholic liturgical books following the Second Vatican Council reflect the mandate and expectations of the Council fathers? This and other questions will be addressed in seminars and informal discussions with Dr Reid in the picturesque setting of The Inn at St John's in Plymouth, Michigan.

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