This is Dança Liturgica #4. If you look at it on YouTube, you can also view #1-3 and 5 should you be so inclined.
This is certainly weird stuff. There seems to be some genuine love for the Blessed Sacrament - during the finale, an ombrellino is used and people reach out to touch the monstrance. I wouldn't put it in the same league as the "Halloween Mass" but there is obviously something very wrong here.
The occasion is a meeting of the Shalom Community, a Catholic Charismatic community founded in Brazil in 1982. Pope John Paul II did a great deal to bring the charismatic movement closer to the heart of the Church and under Pope Benedict, the Neo-catechumenal way has received some correction of some of its liturgical practices. I am sure that an authoritative intervention would be well received by the Shalom Community.
Website of the Shalom Community.
Summary report on the Shalom Community from Zenit.
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Aw no, this is no where any where at all in the same league as the Halloween Mass. It's a bit Youth 2000y looking to me - not the way I like it but at least it's doing some good. Halloween Mass was just bad. *shudders*
Perhaps we could teach Andrew some of that dancing and singing "la la laaa laa da da da" :D
Freaky. I wonder how Our Blessed Lord feels about it(?)
Actually, I thought I was watching my "cloistered brothers." I am a Lay Dominican whose chapter is in a men's prison (MCI Norfolk, MA, USA) They perform liturgical dance and when you see these huge, muscular, tattoed, hairy, macho guys dance, you don't dare smirk. But they would never do a liturgical dance at Adoration. They never get the chance to have Adoration. They have a small chapel, but on Holidays: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, they celebrate Mass in their auditorium. So the stage set up reminded me of my brothers doing their liturgical dance. They dance after communion, and it usually is a "reanactment" (3 wise man adoring the Babe, the Passion, etc.)more than a dance. Actually, now that the novelty has worn off, I don't giggle when I see them, I kinda like it. It does enhance the gospel message, but it took a while for me to see that, never mind admit it.
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I don't know what the connection is but this is actually an Israeli folk dance that was popular at the Community of the Beatitudes. I stayed in their Quebec City house some years ago for a few months. They normally do the dances at the Saturday evening party they have every week.
I was looked at deeply askance when I refused to participate in such dances at the Mass. I told them that liturgical dancing had been explicitly forbidden but was "shouted" down.
The Beatitudes was about mixing Catholicism and Judaism. When I questioned whether it was appropriate, for example, to have a shabat feast, including meat dishes, every Friday, I was accused of anti-Semitism. Apparently, the only thing one is not allowed to be in these sorts of organizations, is fully a committed Catholic.
My experience at the Beatitudes was one that helped convince me that the so-called "new movements" were actually part of the ongoing disaster in the Church, and nothing like a solution. They were heavily supported by John Paul, but as far as I can see have only contributed to the disintegration of the Church's discipline and most of them preach either by word or action, the continuation of popular disobedience.
Everything I have seen of them has confirmed this assessment.
I'm sorry to hear of your experience at the Beatitudes. However, not all the new ecclesial movements go in for this sort of thing. Many are characterised by a loyalty to the Magisterium, love for the Blessed Sacrament and Our Lady, and some for reverent liturgy according to the norms of the Church.
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