Liturgical Dancing Forbidden
Notitiae (Instructions for Sacrament and Divine Worship)
Vol. XI.
Dance has never constituted an essential part in the official
liturgy of the Latin Church. Conciliar decisions have often condemned the
religious dance, as not befitting worship, and also because it could degenerate
into disorders ... hence, it is not possible to introduce something of that
sort in the liturgical celebration; it would mean bringing into the liturgy one
of the most desacralized and desacralizing elements; and this would mean the
same as introducing an atmosphere of profanity, which would easily suggest to
those present worldly places and profane situations.
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