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I find it interesting to see how other groups worship.
You often see very enthusiastic church goers that have the gospel choirs. Almost like they are all rejoicing. Catholics, esp. Latin mass, has a sort of grand reverence to it, with an edge of mystery. I went to an episcopalian christmas eve mass, and it was the most informal thing I have been to. The minister could have been in jeans, the casual informal way he approached it. I think Mormons take the business meeting approach. We make announcements, we say who is doing what job, we rotate a few hymns, we don't clap, and the only time communal "rejoicing" occurs is when someone insists that the entire congregation say "aloha." My former Bishop was pretty unhappy with how members would talk to each other before sacrament mtg. started. he instructed that it should be a time of reverence, that members should sit quietly before the meeting. I loved him (and still do), but I didn't agree with him. i think that is the kind of mtg. that meant that most to him, but it doesn't mean the most to me. Why not more smiles? Why not more rejoicing? Why is it the way it is? |
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I think that some of us have come to equate reverence with silence. Sometimes the two go together, other time's not. Sometimes it's a "silent night" occasion. Other times it's a "music ringing through the grove" occasion.
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