I'm not opposed to dancing or ballet in the correct venue, but not in Church and certainly not at Mass. Although in a secular, entertainment venue, the dance in the video below would have been quite beautiful, but at Mass an abomination. Yet, we hear people who would support this sort of thing decry the new English translation of the Mass, "prayers at the foot of the altar" with its movement toward the altar," the choreography of changing the missal from one side of the altar to the other side of the altar, the lifting of the chasuble, and the repetition of the prayers of unworthiness. On top of that, they despise Gregorian Chant in Latin but prefer the taped, secular music accompanying the dance of the vestal virgins. Go figure!
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”… the world lets go with a BIG YAWN and finds something else to be interested in.”
So this is what Pater Ignotus was talking about!
“… until Pater Ignotus celebrates the EF Mass and asks questions from experience.”
May I offer an earnest prayer that he never does. It’s bad enough for priests like him to continue to subject the OF to their tender ministrations. In the meantime, let’s preserve the EF as a model for the resacralization of the OF when the malformed generations of priests have gone on to their reward.
Not even mentioning the abomination of this "dancing Mass," could they at least find girls with talent?
The problem I see with this sort of thing is that it tends to elevate the gift above its proper place. The dance is a gift and a proper gift only if it draws attention to God and acknowledges the gift of Christ's sacrifice. If the enormity of the THAT Gift is understood and acknowledged decorum and appropriate humility would naturally follow. This sort of thing appears more pagan, to me.
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This looks like it is straight out of High School Dance Class. Scantily clad teenage girls dancing around the Altar would horrify me. This is something that I would either get up and leave or wait to the end and inquire how this is allowed and my offense. Why introduce this consternation into any parish? This is just an attempt to showcase a girl's talent but the venue is completely inappropriate. The parents should feel shame, really. This would upset many of us. Thre is a time and place for this and it is NOT Mass. Over this I would make a scene. No Church Priest or Bishop should allow this. They really have blown the obedience thing so they have little left to protect them form angry reactions. And how unfair and maybe selfish to put young people into the middle of this.
I was asked to leave a graduate school class in theology once. The professor was going on and on about the human spirit and about how the dance was a sign of the Presence of the Kingdom. His was one of those theologies where the Fall was a good thing because it was the birth of man's creative spirit...you know, that kind of BS.
So, I asked him, "Would you say, then, that when the children of Israel were dancing around the golden calf this was a sign of God's presence, as well?" My question brought howls of laughter from the class, but it angered the prof, who replied, "You know, Mr. Williams, I think I'd like for you to leave my class." He didn't even have the...well, you know...to just cleanly kick me out. He had to posit my leaving as a sort of conjecture. None of these liberal theologians have any...well, you know....That is why their theology is so insipid.
You do have to love how the two girls, wearing clothes inappropriate for just about any function let alone Mass, stop and make the sign of the cross before entering the "sanctuary" (although it looks more like a stage) and desecrating it with that routine.
Yes, and I would be highly suspicious of intention if any male in the Church received after the...uh...performance.
nothing like young girls in skimpy outfits to add reverence to the liturgy ... *sigh*
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