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Movement Prayer

Hand motion is vital to movement prayer. This article introduces some basic gestures that can be incorporated with congregational prayer.

"Every part of the body is an expressive instrument of the soul. The soul does not inhabit the body as a man inhabits a house. It lives and works in each member, each fibre, and reveals itself in the body's every line, contour and movement" (Romano Guardini, Sacred Signs [St. Louis: Pio Decimo Press, 1956], 15). Watch any person while he or she talks, and...

 

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