The book is intended to pick up where his first work, The Organic Development of the Liturgy, left off and is expected to be published in 2011.
Here is the official announcement from the Society of St. Catherine of Siena website:
Second Fellow: Dr. Alcuin Reid
It has recently become possible for the Society to co-sponsor with CIEL UK a second Research Fellowship in Liturgical Theology for the academic years 2008-2010. The announcement was made during the CIEL UK 2008 Conference held at the London Oratory, Brompton on 31st May, at at which the recipient delivered the main paper on "The Liturgical Reforms of Benedict XVI." Dr. Alcuin Reid gained a PhD from King’s College, University of London in 2002 for a thesis on twentieth century liturgical reform. He has spoken internationally on liturgical topics, written extensively on the Sacred Liturgy and edited and published a number of books, including Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy with Cardinal Ratzinger (2003) and The Monastic Diurnal (2004). The second edition of his principal work, The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005), carries a preface by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
Dr. Reid’s latest edition of Adrian Fortescue’s book, The Early Papacy, was published by Ignatius Press in April 2008. He is currently working on the fifteenth revised edition of Fortescue and O’Connell’s Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described, which is due for publication by January 2009.
Dr. Reid has been awarded the Society of St. Catherine of Siena and CIEL UK Research Fellowship in Liturgical Theology in order to facilitate the writing of his second major liturgical work, Continuity or Rupture? A Study of the Liturgical Reform of the Second Vatican Council. The book will be published in the Society’s book series, Studies in Fundamental Liturgy (T & T Clark/Continuum).
Just as a reminder as well about liturgical things to look forward to in the next couple of years, both Dr. Alcuin Reid and Dr. Laurence Hemming (of the Society of St. Catherine of Siena) are also involved in the establishment of a new scholarly liturgical journal focused upon the ancient Roman liturgy, Usus Antiquior.
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