First Things RSS Feed - Mary Margaret Milbrath https://www.firstthings.com/author/mary-margaret-milbrath en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:55 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/mary-margaret-milbrath 60 Liturgical Dance Notes https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/08/liturgical-dance-notes https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/08/liturgical-dance-notes Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0400 Balletic slim with gently nubile curves
And sweetly graced extensions of long limbs”
They sway, step, bend to syncopated hymns.
Their mothers beam. How well, they think, dance serves
God’s glory (and their own) in finer style
Than old processions jumbled full of tots,
White-veiled and bumptious, tasting nuns’ DO NOTs,
Surging off center down the middle aisle.

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