[January24th]

The Church is His people. His people are "sacred" but inanimate buildings never can be. The actions within a building can be sacred or profane without hurting the building a whit.

How can gratitude be considered abusive? If I celebrate God's goodness with laughing and dancing and clapping within my home, (I have, and I do) I gladden His heart, and mine. It is a sacred act. If I do it within an assembly, it should be agreed by all that it is not to draw attention to anything other than God's goodness. Decency and order still apply, but they don't have to be prohibitive.

As if the Church didn't have enough problems. Bringing outer order to a inner-disordered Church will not make the vessel clean. Clean the "inside," the heart of the Church, I believe is what Jesus told the church leaders of his day...

No wait,if that happens, there'll be some real joy and dancing and lightness of heart and gratitude...and holiness and accountability and reverent fear.

[Pyro7480]

The abuse is with those who so readily change the form of our service, the Mass. The Mass is considered the highest form of prayer within the Catholic Church. Those who "innovate" with liturgy also are likely to "innovate" with doctrine.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

His people are "sacred" but inanimate buildings never can be.

Why does Canon Law refer to "Sacred Places"? Why is there a rite for the "Reconciliation of a Church Building After a Sacrilege"?