MIAMIA SHORES, FL September 18, 2006---Brother Joseph Kilikevice, OP, led a small group of students, faculty and staff in Preaching Praise Through Dance, a meditational dance exercise September 6-7. The activity highlights circle dances and songs from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.

“I use this with all sorts of people at all sorts of gatherings,” said Kilikevice, from the Shem Center in Chicago. “We cannot do prayer unless everyone knows they are welcome.” Participants sang songs while performing simple group motions. “The most important thing about this because it’s a prayer is not that it be perfect, but that it comes from the heart,” Kilikevice said.
The Center for Dominican Studies at Barry University sponsored the event in the university and two others in parishes around the Archdiocese of Miami. Fr. Dave Caron, OP, director of the Center stated, “With all that is going on in our world today how important it is for the members of the three faiths of Abraham and Sarah to learn about each other and celebrate what we hold in common.”

“It is good to be at a place [Barry] that has a sense of what that [Dominican] heritage is all about,” Kilikevice said.