When the congregation prays the Our Father, half the church raises their hands in the ancient orans posture…while the other half stays folded in quiet reverence. But after a recent, blunt post from the Archdiocese of Portland declaring the gesture "not rubrically appropriate" for the laity, a long-standing liturgical debate has erupted back into the spotlight.
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