{"id":1000,"date":"2006-06-18T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T22:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/you-want-multi-sensory.html"},"modified":"2006-06-18T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T22:14:35","slug":"you-want-multi-sensory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/you-want-multi-sensory.html","title":{"rendered":"You want “multi-sensory?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You got it…from a Corpus Christi homily at an Anglo-Catholic parish in Boston:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Right now, in Columbus, at General Convention, the Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music are considering a proposal to explore \u201cmulti-sensory worship.\u201d By this they mean worship that employs new technologies of power point and multi-media devices. When I read about this, I was astonished that in choosing the term \u201cmulti-sensory worship\u201d they were implying that the Church in its two thousand year history was somehow bereft of worship that involves all the senses. Today we are fully able to experience just how \u201cmulti-sensory\u201d worship can be. We smell the incense and the sweet richness of the wine. We hear the music, the prayers, and most importantly the invitation to Communion. We see the colours of the vestments, and the poetic movement of the ministers, and again most importantly, we see the Sacrament lifted high for us to recognise as something so much more than mere bread. We touch our brothers and sisters in the exchange of the peace and we touch the very Body of Christ we take into our hands. And the things we taste in the bread and wine are none other than God\u2019s love, offered to us and full of the power to make us divine lovers. Our multi-sensory worship is a sign of the possibility of multi-sensory God-oriented lives at the very heart of God\u2019s rich and beautiful Creation. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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