Exuberant Brazilian Dance (With Evident Moorish Musical Influence By Way Of Portugal)

Valmir & Juzinha
Forro' Performance
(Grupo Pé Descalço, Belo Horizonte)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33sqgUUJKg

Forró
Wikpedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forr%C3%B3

Alan: Forró originated in northeastern Brazil as an integral part of the "June Festivals" which celebrate a number of Christian saints. The most celebrated is Saint John's day." 

One of the many things I love about Catholicism is its eagerness -- as evidenced in the Lenten roots of Carnival (from the Latin "Carne Vale" meaning "Farewell Flesh") -- to embrace carnality/enfleshment, an impulse that derives from The Roman Church's profound love of The Incarnation. 

"God so loved the world." 

I marvel that so few evangelicals and fundamentalists accept God's clear declaration that "He" loves this world -- along with all its sucky muck.

In effect, The Roman Church believes that as long as it is our human lot to delight in the joys of Earth, carne/flesh rules.

Here is a fascinating article (which links to its own rebuttal) about the blocked movement to canonize G.K. Chesterton on grounds of intemperance.

"Chesterton's Lack Of Temperance Could Block His Canonization"

http://www.catholichousehold.com/chestertons-lack-temperance-block-canonization/

Alternatively, the puritanical drive of fundamentalist Christianity to flee The Incarnation in order to "get back" to the uterine safety of The Logos is a lamentable misdirection, an essential mangling of Christianity that causes ever more young people to turn away from the religion that brought us Carnival, Halloween, Christmas and a hundred other now endangered celebrations, each of them as splendid as forró.

St. Appolonia And A Hundred Medieval Holidays 
The Lost Art Of Catholic Drinking
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/st-appolonia-and-hundred-medieval.html

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

The Phenotypic Expression Of Religion Matters More Than Its Dogmatic Genotype
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/the-phenotypic-expression-of-religion.html

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/any-religion-that-needs-fear-to-thrive.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/bad-religion-compendium.html

Christians Are Their Own Worst Enemy: Wrecking The Brand

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-modern-world-cartoon-christians.html

The Bible Belt Is Christianity's Worst Enemy
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-bible-belt-is-christianitys-enemy.html