Are clapping, hand movements, and snapping fingers appropriate for Sundays?
The clapping of hands during worship is hardly new, as can be seen from the first line of Psalm 47. When it promotes the people’s active participation in the liturgy, the Second Vatican Council encourages people to take part using “actions, gestures, and bodily attitudes.” ( Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 30).
