RE: Dance of the Lord
I have enjoyed a wonderful time today dancing free as a bird hence this post.
Man as ever searched for more expressive forms of communication with the transcendent. Thus religious dance has been found to supplement, even replace, speech. Throughout the East, sacred dancers were a prominent feature in religious worship; in Egypt, colleges of female dancers and singers were annexed to certain shrines. Many of these religious dances consisted of slow and stately processions through the streets of the city or around the altar. In the old testement, dancing was an adjunct of worship, a practice probably borrowed from neighbouring people.
"Thus Miriam took a timbrel and danced" (Exodus 15:20-21)
And David on the recovery of the ark "danced with all his might before the Lord" (2 Kings 6:14) It is also clear from many passages in the psalms that dancing formed part of the liturgy of the Temple.
In early Christian times dancing was a part of the celebration of the vigils of martyrs as the people thus expressed their joy in the church of the martyr's tomb. (Perhaps this is where the saying 'dancing on one's grave comes from)
In the Middle Ages the practice developed in combinng more closely dance and formal worship, especially during the chief liturgical seasons. Even until the present, dancing before the high altar in Seville cathedral takes place on the feasts of the Immaculate
Conception, Corpus Christi, and in Shrovetide.
Source: Encyclopedia of World Religions
Dance divine in GOD's domain
Live enJOY
Kim xx
RE: Dance of the Lord
My spirit rejoices in God my saviour
... When Mary says my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour she is dancing in her spirit
like King David dancing before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:14) when he brought the ...
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