African Catholics get their own church

[myway22883]

Beau and Strawberry, what are you arguing about?

I would be very interested in what the General Instruction of the Roman Missal had to say about dancing during the offeratory as well as other parts of this form mass. Anyone care to look it up?

 

[Havard]

Beau and Strawberry, what are you arguing about?

I would be very interested in what the General Instruction of the Roman Missal had to say about dancing during the offeratory as well as other parts of this form mass. Anyone care to look it up?

I can tell you this much… His Eminence Cardinal Arinze (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ) answered a question on this in a Q&A, and that his answer was that it is acceptable for the Church in Africa and Asia, but not Europe or America. He went on to clarify that even then, only some forms of dance are acceptable in the liturgy.

Here’s a video of his full response: youtube.com/watch?v=9rJFdmmqj_s

 

[ProVobis]

The ancient Ethiopic or Ge’ez Rite includes ritualistic drumming and dancing during certain parts of the eucharistic liturgy. While inappropriate for a typical Western Latin Rite mass, I wouldn’t rule it out in all contexts. I trust that during the eucharistic liturgy itself the congregation is quiet and still and the atmosphere solemn…

This is what Cardinal Arinze says on the matter:

youtube.com/watch?v=9rJFdmmqj_s

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

“” Black Catholics – an ethnically and culturally diverse group that makes up 3 percent of the U.S. Catholic population – often find themselves searching for or defending their position in a faith seen by many as a “white man’s religion.”

“Where is our place in this religion?” asked Eilleen Ancrum, the director of the Office of Black Apostolate of the Diocese of Trenton, during a workshop Tuesday night titled “We’ve Come This Far by Faith: Black Catholic History in America.”

The event was held in recognition of Black Catholic History Month, and Ancrum considered both the historical and cultural answers to this question.

“Anyone who is going to teach the faith needs to know who is in the faith,” she said to 11 attendees.

Ancrum, a convert to Catholicism, related a history that considers the diverse set of people we refer to as “black,” their place in Catholic texts, and the contemporary history of black Catholics in the United States."

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