Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgica USA 2015

"Sacra Liturgia” Is Coming to New York City in June (via NLM)

Black is Better than Blue

The light blue used by the servers of the ICKSP, that is. The use of black seems to be out of respect for the Dominican/Augustinian heritage of the parish.

Dominican Rite Solemn Mass, December 8, Portland OR

Misc.
NLM: Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis - A Review by Dom Alcuin Reid by Gregory DiPippo

Acts of Sacra Liturgia 2013

Post by Sacra Liturgia 2013.

Regina Magazine with Dom Alcuin Reid

Authentic Catholic Liturgy: It’s Not About Us, It’s About God by Dan Flaherty (via NLM)

Dom Alcuin Reid to Speak in NYC

Post by New Liturgical Movement.

The parish that was recommended to be closed... He is also giving a talk in Connecticut tomorrow.

Sacred Liturgy

Post by Sacra Liturgia 2013.

50 Years After Sacrosanctum Concilium

The Liturgy, Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium by Dom Alcuin Reid
NLM: Is Your Liturgy Like What Vatican II Intended? by Peter Kwasniewski
Fr. Z: 50 years ago today: BUGNINICARE!
A Council Not Yet Fully Realized by Kathleen Pluth
Sacrosanctum Concilium Turns 50

Then you get the stuff over at a certain blog...
V2-50th Anniversary III: “A Reflection on the Ecumenical Impact of Sacrosanctum Concilium“
Pray Tell Live – Massimo Faggioli Interview

Sacrosanctum Concilium

An interview with Dom Alcuin Reid about Sacra Liturgia 2013

CWR: The Future of Liturgical Formation and Renewal

CWR: Given this, how did the conference explore the relationship between liturgical renewal and the New Evangelization?

Dom Reid: This relationship is the raison d’être for Sacra Liturgia 2013. Bishop Rey is not a liturgical scholar, he is diocesan bishop, and it is from the standpoint of that particular vocation that he so profoundly appreciates the role of the liturgy. As he said in his introduction to the conference: “As a bishop it is my duty to do all I can to promote the New Evangelization initiated by Blessed John Paul II...the New Evangelization must be founded on the faithful and fruitful celebration of the Sacred Liturgy as given to us by the Church in her tradition—Western and Eastern.” When first we discussed the possibility of a conference this focus was clear and we invited speakers to base their considerations on it.

Abbot Nault made some important observations about this. Drawing on the work of Louis Bouyer he noted that the liturgy “cannot be reduced to being an instrument for something else, which would end up being a pick-and-mix of catechesis, formation for Christian living, and ritual;” i.e., the liturgy is not primarily a tool of catechesis or evangelization. Rather, he argued that “a correct ‘use’ of the liturgy” is necessary, “a ‘use’ which can be a source of great pastoral and evangelical fruitfulness.” As he pointed out, “it is only when we let liturgy be ‘useless’ that it reveals the extent of its ‘usefulness’ in the life of the Church and the New Evangelization!”

Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgia

Vatican Radio: Liturgy Conference opens in Rome (mp3)

Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid

CWR: Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid about upcoming “Sacra Liturgia” Conference in Rome

Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgia 2013

Zenit: Getting to the Bottom of Liturgical Reform
Rome Conference to Gather Experts, Serve as Tribute to Benedict XVI


Sacra Liturgia 2013

Related:
The Forgotten Eucharistic Vision of Virgil Michel by Roland Millare

The Conclave Begins

Conclave begins behind closed doors, as the famous 'Extra Omnes' phrase is announced


Cardinals take oath of secrecy as Conclave begins


Related:
"Peter and Succession" by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Charles Coulombe, A New Pope

Sacred Liturgy: Past, Present, and Future
An interview with Dom Alcuin Reid about the liturgy, Vatican II, and the upcoming Sacra Liturgia 2013 conference in Rome

The Transfiguration of the Church by Rev. George W. Rutler

More Reflections on Benedict XVI

NLM: Dom Alcuin Reid: "Farewell to a Gentle Liturgical Reformer" (I can't find the original at The Catholic Herald)

Fr. Fessio's Pope Benedict
CWR exclusive: Fr. Fessio on Pope Benedict’s resignation

The Pope and the Philistines by Tracey Rowland

Related: How, during the lifetime of a pope, can his successor gain the authority he needs? We are in a time of uncertainty: but we are also in God’s hands by William Oddie

Dom Alcuin Reid Reviews True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium’

Book Review - True Reform: Liturgy and Ecclesiology in ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium’, Massimo Faggioli

Items of Interews, 23 December 2011

Three Myths about the Detention Bill
If America is a Battleground, Nobody Has Any Rights
“Lawfare” – using the law to undermine the Constitution (a powerful tool in the quiet coup now in progress)

PATRICK COCKBURN, Iraq Trembles Amid Renewed Sectarian Violence

PJB, War with Iran? Make Congress Vote on It

John Robb, The Future of Drone Warfare

Economics:
Rob Hopkins, Can We Manage Without Growth, An Interview with Peter Victor Part Two
The power of sovereign economics: myth vs reality

Energy:
Occupying science: technology for the 99 percent by Erik Curren (EB)
The peak oil crisis: 2012 – apocalypse now? by Tom Whipple (EB)
John Michael Greer, Tweedledoom and Tweedledee

Farming:
Wes Jackson: A perennial revolution in agriculture by Ken Meter (EB)

Relocalization and the Simple Life:
Lindsay Curren, When down is up: Review of “The Power of Community”
Shannon Hayes, Reclaiming Christmas, Radical Homemaker-Style

Catholic:
Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
Tea at Trianon, New Book About Philip of Spain
Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint
St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor, and the Second Apostle of Germany

Marianne Cope and ‘Lily of the Mohawks’ to be canonised
Pope Benedict XVI advances Causes of 20 men and women and recognises 64 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

History:
Hong Kong's unwanted Christmas present By Ronan Thomas

Items of Interest, 11 October 2011

Economy:
Daly's steady-state economics by Barath Raghavan (EB)
Ralph Nader, Masters of the Big Lie
Richard Aleman, The Immigrants Part II
On the cusp of collapse: Complexity, energy & the globalised economy by David Korowicz (EB)

A write-up on the FPR Conference: There's No Place Like Home
Russell Arben Fox, Global Warming, Local Farming, and Naomi Klein: A Trip to the Land Institute
Jane Jacobs: A Symposium

Different Perspectives on Occupy Wall Street (and similar events):
David Korten: Wall Street Occupiers, the Future Depends on You
Distributist Review: The Beginning
The Spearhead: Occupy Wall Street Is Just Another Vehicle For Misandry - The Spearhead
Heartiste: Occupy Cupertino

Peak Oil:
Destroying dreams the peak oil way by Kurt Cobb (EB)

U.S. Constitution:
What Constitutionalism Means
Kevin Gutzman: “Virginia's American Revolution" (mp3 and transcript) [tiny url]

Catholic:
Interview with Dr. Alcuin Reid in Deutsche Tagepost: The Council, Organic Development, Rupture and Continuity
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby on the Propers of the Mass - Council and Continuity Conference, Phoenix
William Oddie, A daring decision fulfils a Newman Prayer
Jeff Culbreath, "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in ..."

Education:
Why Language Sets Us Free

Diet and Health:
HealthWatch: Doctors Warming To Caveman Diet Trend

History:
How People Spoke: The Regency Era (via Tea at Trianon)

Music:
Song Premiere: First Aid Kit, 'The Lion's Roar'
(official and MySpace)

NLM: Adrian Fortescue and the Eastern Christian Churches

Anthony Dragani, Adrian Fortescue and the Eastern Christian Churches
Gorgias Press, 2007

Wow.

[I am leaving the original post for now, appending to the end of the post a defense of Dr. Reid that is based on information supplied in a comment. I do not know the person who left the comment, but I have no reason at this point in time to suspect that what she says is not true or that she is not who she claims she is. It is a relief to read that there is no evidence to back up the charges. Rather, this incident is just another instance of the animus of the secular media against the Church at work.]

Hrm... did a search and this turned up. Pell and 'sex deacon' at conference. See comments here and this thread at Angelqueen. (Catholic Culture has a round-up of news.) The same Alcuin Reid with whom we are faimliar? If it is, is there something else to the separation between him and Dr. Laurence Paul Hemming and Usus Antiquior? (An interview of Drs. Reid and Hemming, back when Dr. Reid was still an editor of the journal, has either been deleted or has disappeared. Dr. Hemming has been surrounded with some controversy as well.)

If the allegations are true, do they affect the quality of his scholarship? No, those arguments would have to be evaluated on their own terms, but it is not easy to separate the arguments from the man making them. They will reinforce in the minds of some the associations between liturgists and aesthetes with other things. Or they will be used by some to discredit the liturgical movement of the 20th century. (For example, there is one comment at the Angelqueen thread.) Will Dr. Reid complete the second volume of his history of liturgical reform in the 20th century?

I've found only a brief response by Dr. Reid so far, published in The Tablet:

Top liturgist refuses to be laicised

21 May 2010

A leading traditionalist Catholic on the verge of being ordained a priest in France has repeatedly refused to act on requests to seek laicisation, according to his former archdiocese where he was a deacon. Alcuin Reid, a liturgist in the Tridentine Rite who until recently was based in England, had his faculties as a deacon removed in 1991 by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Frank Little. According to a statement issued by the present archbishop on Wednesday, the action was taken against Dr Reid “because of failure to comply with the vow of celibacy”. Archbishop Denis Hart went on to say that his predecessors in Melbourne including Cardinal George Pell had “all, without success, strenuously and repeatedly urged Scott [Alcuin] Reid to seek laicisation. He refused to act on all these requests”.

Archbishop Hart issued his statement to The Tablet after a report about Dr Reid’s private life as a seminarian appeared in the Melbourne daily The Age. Dr Reid’s faculties were reinstated by Bishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon in France last year and it was expected that he would be ordained a priest this year.

Dr Reid told The Tablet that in 1991, following a confidential conversation with Archbishop Little, he had requested leave of absence from ministry as a deacon in Melbourne. He said this request had been granted by the archbishop and his faculties to act as deacon had been withdrawn. “My dealings with my superiors have always been transparent from the outset and I have hidden nothing from them,” he said, adding that he was as a deacon of the Fréjus-Toulon Diocese in good standing.

[This statement should have been enough for the reporter to do his own digging and to see what evidence there actually is, and to learn about the canonical procedures of the Church?]

I don't recall seeing any mention of the allegations in the traditionalist or liturgical blogs that I visit regularly. Perhaps this is to avoid the sin of detraction or calumny, or to avoid damaging someone's reputation without any evidence to substantiate a claim. But my searches have turned up this post at Fr. Z's blog: A brief comment about the stories concerning the author Alcuin Reid. A post at Australia Incognita. Damian Thompson.

Re-reading the article in The Age, I ask if certain facts aren't being interpreted in the worst possible light in order to substantiate the allegations? What is the truth of the matter? Sigh. At this moment I am doubting whether I should even "publish" this post. Newspapers report these sorts of claims all the time, but that doesn't make it right, even though in my case I am not supporting the allegations, merely noting them and adding some comments.

Edit. Please see the comment left by Eileen M. Ross, J.C.L. If there is no evidence to back up the allegation then the articles, as other commentators have pointed out, are just hit pieces making use of unsubstantiated allegations in order to harm the reputations of a prominent traditionalist liturgist and Pope Benedict XVI, and the Church in general. I hope in a few months that the articles are no longer at the top of the Google search results.

Items of Interest, 2 July 2010

Life After RC: Questions about Apostolic Schools and Thoughts on the Legion's future
Dawn Eden, The Holy Ghost in the Machine: Amidst the Legion Crisis, a Sign of Providence

NLM: Review of "Heaven and Earth in Little Space: The Re-Enchantment of Liturgy"

Daniel Larison, Stuck In The Past

CHT: Obama Regime pushes for Three Mass Amnesties

Mark Sisson, How to Improve Your Sleep Posture

Defense Review: Latest-Variant Smith & Wesson (S&W) M&P Tactical AR (AR-15) Rifle/Carbine/SBRs for Special Operations Forces (SOF) Displayed at SOFIC 2010: Ambidextrous Controls!

Asia Times:
'Surge' smoke follows Petraeus to Afpak
As General David Petraeus, the mainstream US media's new armored Messiah, takes command in Afghanistan, the myth of his "successful surge" in Iraq could not but linger. Anyone who buys the Pentagon's spin and believes the same conquest will happen in the Pashtun south and southeast of Afghanistan must have smoked Hindu Kush's finest. - Pepe Escobar

Counter-insurgency down for the count
The United States' Afghanistan strategy isn't working, which raises several key questions. Why does President Barack Obama fire a failing general but cling to his failing war policy? And if nothing much is working, why does it still go on non-stop? It's because Afghanistan has become an ill-oiled war machine generating ever-more incentives for almost everyone involved - except ordinary Afghans. - Ann Jones

Counterpunch:
Vijay Prashad, A Disaster Foretold: BP, Obama and the Gulf
Ralph Nader, Tyranny of the Merchant Class
John Stanton, General Petraeus' Magic Bag

Fr. Finigan tells us: Dr Alcuin Reid on R4 Sunday programme-- program expires soon, so listen while you can! (And he also mentions that there is a new blog: Conventual Church of St John of Jerusalem, the Oratory of the Grand Priory of England of the Soveriegn and Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.)