The dance segment appears to have been a performance piece inserted AFTER the final blessing, since the recessional hymn begins immediately after the dance segment ends. So technically, it is not “liturgical.” The Knights filed into the procession, just as they would had the dancers not done their “thing.”
While I find this clip not to my taste, I believe it is technically within the bounds of permissible. I have sympathy for the bishop. Bishops have to smile through a lot of things that make them cringe.
Stop it right now, those of you on these Forums who are continually making allowances for abuses - and abominable ones at that - and deeming them “permissible”!
Notice the church in the round, with overhead fluorescent lighting?
Notice any statues? Any Stations of the Cross? The restlessness of the “audience”? (What, you think I’m going to call them a “congregation”?!)
Notice the “audience” applauded the performers when the latter were done? Why not? This part of the ceremony is “the glorification of the laity”.
The pastor and liturgical coordinator and music director of this “community” (surely it can’t be a
church, now, can it?) should be removed from their positions immediately, if not sooner. This, of course, assumes, the bishop was blind-sided by the whole debacle. If he was in on it, he needs to go, too.
Imagine: the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church conforming to the present age and its overdone multi-culturalism.
Downright tragic.
Other than that, I have no strong feelings on the matter, one way or another.
