{"id":15671,"date":"2012-07-23T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=15671"},"modified":"2012-07-22T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T02:14:06","slug":"this-weeks-discussion-question-what-does-multicultural-liturgy-look-likeand-does-it-even-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/23\/this-weeks-discussion-question-what-does-multicultural-liturgy-look-likeand-does-it-even-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Discussion Question: What does multicultural liturgy look like\u2026and does it even matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been reflecting quite a bit on this question this year. In June, I presented two keynotes on the topic of multicultural liturgy at the Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts<\/a>; at this week\u2019s conference of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians<\/a>, I\u2019ll lead two workshops on multicultural skills for liturgical leaders; and this October in San Jose, the national conference of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions<\/a> will examine the topic on the diocesan level.<\/p>\n

As a person who grew up and lives in California, being \u201cmulticultural\u201d is simply a way of life, and it seems natural that our liturgies would reflect to some extent our multicultural population. We succeed in some areas and fail at others when it comes to authentic intercultural expression of the liturgy, but it\u2019s usually never a question of whether or not the liturgy will be multicultural. It simply is because of who is there.<\/p>\n

So in the communities I\u2019ve worked at in California, here are some of the overarching questions we\u2019ve had to struggle with before we could even tackle the mechanics of how to do <\/em>multicultural liturgy. What are your insights to these questions?<\/p>\n