Defense by Word Twisting: Mayan Rite Not a Mayan Rite, the Liturgical Dance not a Liturgical Dance
The Mexican Bishops’ Conference felt the need to justify its "Mayan Rite" in a statement last Friday. They responded to "different interpretations" which were in fact persuasive criticisms.
The bishops claim that there is no Mayan rite, no ritual dances and no Mayan altars.
According to them, the new Eucharist "does not constitute a new rite or a substantial change in the structure of the Roman Missal".
The Mayan rite is an "optional adaptation" to the Novus Ordo.
The Bishops do not want to speak of "liturgical dancing" with regard to the "physical movements" permitted at the opening, during the offertory, and during the thanksgiving after Communion. These rituals are of "a rhythmic pendulum movement", they play on words.
In fact, even retired Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of San Cristóbal called these elements "liturgical dances". Furthermore, pictures and videos show that the Mayan …More
And the very demons that Our Lady of Guadalupe crushed when She appeared in Mexico in 1531 are now being unleashed again upon the American continent through these demonic gestures that invoke the demons - don't kid yourselves, Mexican bishops. What a disgrace all of your are - you have opened up a portal to the demonic that the Mother of God closed shut. How dare you inflict this upon the world and the Church! WW3 is now looming ---- not surprising.
This is what Bp. Vasquez is prohibiting, with all-too-willing air cover from the Vatican, starting next Sunday.