***It seems to me it is a charismatic service, which prefers the emotional over the intellectual./***QUOTE]
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Bewildered by this part of your post. Comes across as somewhat uncharitable and condecending. Would seem to me we are called to love God, a deeply emotional state, as well as to know him.
If this were the mass, with set postures and stances for the various parts of the liturgy, then yes I would agree, and would certainly endorse uniformity of worship. I think there is a very valid point to be made there. Notwithstanding, even within the mass, I often see others reciting the Our Father with open hands, not something I’m used to doing, but it doesn’t bother me.
I pray on my knees, sitting, standing, lying on my bed hands joined, opened , arms crossed, holding a book, even sometimes when I’m driving. While what we ‘do’ externally can give expression to our prayer, surely its our interior disposition that really counts?
