Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prayers, and the congregation responds in Hebrew. At the end, the worshipers link arms around one another's waists and sway in unison as they sing. Then, in an ecstatic rush, it is over. They break ranks, kiss warmly, wish one another a Shabbat shalom (a joyful Sabbath). The holy day has begun...
...might hint so: golden hills, oak trees and cypresses, pepper trees and eucalyptus. In fact, the setting is half a world away from the Galilean landscape it resembles-in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains of California, just 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Many of the devoted Sabbath worshipers are in fact ordinary young Jewish Americans, thoroughly the children of their secular culture. They come from homes where Hebrew is virtually unknown, where the Sabbath is observed only perfunctorily if at all, where a kosher kitchen is only a half-remembered custom sometimes dusted off for Pass over...
...recurrent expression in the liturgy of the Sabbath Assembly is "An end-and a new beginning." At certain times the Superior reciting the liturgy concludes his passage with "As it is," to which those assembled reply "So be it": a greeting and reply Processeans often use during the course of the day that corresponds roughly to "How are you," and "Fine thanks." At several points in the service, the Music Officer announces the number of the hymn, and the Assembly sings the words of the hymn to the kind of simple, logical melody that, like the melodies of many hymns...
...Sabbath Assembly is subdued and solemnly conducted, but at one point a Superior speaks informally to the Assembly, making small jokes, inviting responses from those on the floor around him. As the liturgy proceeds, examining in turn the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ, a sense of community seems to build in the Assembly; when the service is over, the Superiors of the Church leave first, and others follow, happy and relaxed. Like many other religious ceremonies, the Sabbath Assembly of the Process seems to leave its participants with a sense of pleasant relief and fulfillment...
Animals are respected by the Church. One of the Process books, The Ultimate Sin, is a tract against animal vivisection. One reason for this emphasis is that animals are examples of the complete reconciliation of opposites (which helps explain the presence of the two dogs at the Sabbath Assembly). As one member of the Church explains, "Dogs are much more high-level beings than we are...They're pure.... Animals don't have conflicts of choice. They do as they're supposed to. They're not conflicted...