Candles, Incense and No Liturgical Dancers

Have I mentioned that liturgical dancers always make me wish I had a beebee gun?  I think I have.

Anyway...

From the New Oxford Review, HERE is a nice article written by a Harvard student:  Why I Attend the Traditional Latin Mass by Francis X. Altiere IV.

(Maybe the moral of this story is "Name four generations of sons after Francis Xavier and something good will come of it.")

I can't resist posting the end of this article, for people too lazy to read the whole thing:

"Let us end with another quotation from that most reliable of all theologians, St. Thomas: “It is absurd, and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.”"

Of course, a couple of thousand years from now, someone will be saying that about liturgical dancers.

Or not.

Comments

[Maggie]

Worst liturgical dance you have seen?

We affectionately call it the foolish virgins: they were barefoot girls dancing around carying lamps as the altar was being dressed.

Sadly, not enough mental floss in the world to erase that memory from my data banks.

[Ian]

Nope, I've got a worse one. At my wife's home parish the foolish virgins danced up the aisle with coleman lanters. Nothing says sacred like butane.