Tag: Inculturation
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Amen Corner: The Pandemic Push for Inculturation
Carmel Pilcher, RSJ, offers this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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Francis, Liturgical Pope: On the Vernacular and Social Transformation
For a biologist who has famously spoken of the church as a smelly sheepfold and a field hospital, the seemingly ethereal world of language appears beyond the scope of Francis’ interest.
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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Book Review: The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions
Claudio R. Salvucci. The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions: From the Colonial Period to the Second Vatican Council. Massinahigan Series, vol. 5. Merchantville, NJ: Evolution Publishing, 2008. I would like to preface my review of The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions with some personal data that may highlight why…
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New Traditions of Chant Workshop
Saint Meinrad and the National Pastoral Musicians are collaborating to offer a workshop, New Traditions of Chant, the evening of Sunday, February 21, 2021. Saint Meinrad chant scholar Br. John Glasenapp, OSB, will be hosting a conversation with Togolese monks, Br. Justin Ayanou and Cajetan Agouvi, on the liturgy and music of their home monastery,…
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Pope Francis: The Zaire Rite, a Model for the Amazon
The Zaire Rite should absolutely be considered a prophetic model for liturgical inculturation. It is perhaps one of the best liturgical gifts given to the Church after Vatican II.
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St Jerome, “Linguistic” Hospitality and Inculturation
When it comes to matters liturgical there is often a danger to read things into the words of Pope Francis. All too often, liturgists of every shade tend to think that Pope Francis agrees with whatever position they themselves hold (this was the point I made here and here during the Synod for the Amazon).…
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Unfamiliar Fishes – Culture – Evangelization
History shows us that human rites and religions get old patterns set very deeply in their bones—which is both a strength and weakness.
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A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns
The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.