So you think you can marry?
Hey, it was non-Catholic, so they can get away with it. And some of them are better dancers than some liturgical stompers I've seen!
posted by A Secular Franciscan | 7:04 AM
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Hey, it was non-Catholic, so they can get away with it. And some of them are better dancers than some liturgical stompers I've seen!
4 Comments:
I saw that yesterday and really enjoyed it. I'm sure those guests won't be forgetting that wedding any time soon. :)
Why wouldn't that be allowed at a Catholic wedding?
For one thing, the music. The Church has rules about what kind of music is permitted (of course, that get's broken regularly!). A tune like the one in the video would not be permitted.
But I do think the video is a hoot.
"However, the same criterion and judgment cannot be applied in the western culture.
Here dancing is tied with love, with diversion, with profaneness, with unbridling of the senses: such dancing, in general, is not pure.
For that reason it cannot be introduced into liturgical celebrations of any kind whatever: that would be to inject into the liturgy one of the most desacralized and desacralizing elements; and so it would be equivalent to creating an atmosphere of profaneness which would easily recall to those present and to the participants in the celebration worldly places and situations."
--- "The Religious Dance - an Expression of Spiritual Joy", in The Canon Law Digest, Vol. VIII, pp.78-82.
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