{"id":7879,"date":"2003-06-03T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/06\/03\/dance-the-rite-away\/"},"modified":"2003-06-03T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2003-06-03T18:02:59","slug":"dance-the-rite-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/06\/dance-the-rite-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance the rite away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/news\/images\/0602story_news4_1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"><i>Samantha Melendez, 15, dances with the Borinquen Dance Theatre during the Lord\ufffds Prayer at the 13th annual Caribbean Mass St. Monica Church, 831 Genesee St., Sunday afternoon.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">(June 2, 2003) \ufffd Borinquen Dance Theatre dancers moved to the beat of a steel drum band. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Worshipers read biblical lessons in Spanish, French and English &#8212; the three languages spoken on the Caribbean islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">No matter the language or music, the message was clear at the 13th annual Caribbean Mass.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/news\/0602story4_news.shtml\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I&#8217;ve complained about hand-holding during the Our Father but this takes the cake.  Liturgical dance and a steel drum band together, wow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">NATIONAL CONFERENCE of CATHOLIC<br \/>\nBISHOPS, all dancing, (ballet, children&#8217;s gesture as dancing, the clown liturgy) are not permitted to be &#8220;introduced into liturgical celebrations of any kind whatever.&#8221; [NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS (BISHOPS&#8217; COMMITTEE on the LITURGY) NEWSLETTER. APRIL\/MAY 1982.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Most people don&#8217;t know it that there is one exception allowed all throughout the Church; on Sundays and other holy days of obligation;  atten<i>dance<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Melendez, 15, dances with the Borinquen Dance Theatre during the Lord\ufffds Prayer at the 13th annual Caribbean Mass St. Monica Church, 831 Genesee St., Sunday afternoon. (June 2, 2003)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}