Deepen worship through liturgical movement, dance, and drama.

During worship, movement and gestures can mediate between the human and the divine, transcending words and increasing the reverence of celebrations. Michele has found that prayerful pre-planning with the worship team can assure that liturgical movement draws attention to the message that is the core of a particular celebration, thereby deepening the ritual. She can teach ministers and members of a congregation appropriate movements and gestures or she can dance, move, or tell scriptural stories as a soloist.

Liturgical movement can be appropriate:

For worship services and celebrations:

• Sunday worship
• prayer, healing, and reconciliation services
• retreats

At specified times in a worship service:

• the opening, gospel, offertory, and recessional processions
• interpretations of scripture
• reflections on scripture

On Holy days:

• Palm Sunday and Good Friday: dance “Were you there?”
• Easter Vigil: enact Moses parting the sea and Miriam dancing
• Pentecost: dramatically proclaim the Pentecost story from Acts
• Christmas: dramatize the Christmas story

For rites of passage:

• baptisms
• first communions: offertory procession to “We come to your feast”
• confirmations: Holy Spirit ribbon banner dance
• weddings: dance with flower basket to "Ave Maria"
• funerals: bless casket with incense rising from a bowl

To enhance the existing liturgical roles of

• incense bearers
• banner bearers
• candle bearers
• readers
• presiders

 

Photo: Michele processes out with the Word of God. ©2005 Wade Thrall

© 2006-2010 Michele Marie Beaulieux