Some of my friends have not seen this yet

For those of my readers who do not visit Father Z regularly, he posted this several days ago. You may laugh. You may weep. You may do both at the same time. I'm a big fan of dance, by the way. That was my favorite hobby when I was younger. I used to take ballet and jazz classes almost every night after work. In my dreams I do magnificent split leaps that feel like flying. I hope in heaven I can worship the Lord in dance.

But I really do not like this kind of liturgical dancing. I REALLY do not like it.

Over at CMR we may have seen the coining of a new term. New? Old? I don’t know, but it is good.

Liturgesy: Heresy expressed in the form of Liturgy

We are treated to this, from the closing of the Three Days of Darkness in LA… er um…. the Education Conference.

Now here in Ottawa, one of the big charismatic churches in the East end has or used to have a large team of young people who I've seen at public events doing some nicely choreographed jazz dancing and/or hip hop to Christian praise music. I loved it. I think its a great way for kids to work as a team, vent some of their energy, and celebrate their love for Jesus. I don't see anything wrong with worshipping that way OUTSIDE OF THE MASS!!!!!

And these charismatic churches don't believe the same way about the Eucharist anyway, so fine, when they dance or do interesting things with banners and such, they are, well, doing their thing.

I have also loved seeing some First Nations warriors in regalia, swinging tomahawks and dancing traditional dances to Christian praise music. It was like seeing spiritual warfare through dance.

But I think Father Z has a point about this video. There is something in this liturgy that seems to undermine the doctrine of the Catholic Church.