Look at the understated hauteur in a statement like:
“The priest extends his arms to invite the people to pray”
Doesn’t it imply the people are stupid and must be given dramatic signals as in aerobics class to know to pray? A simple “oremus” could not possibly touch their feeble minds?
People who are in church are there to pray! They know to pray in a church! They come to pray and want to pray, and will pray regardless of any old man in a rainbow chasuble flapping his arms.
A simple “oremus” could not possibly touch their feeble minds?
in a typical suburban parish, that is precisely the case...