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by Mark Rodriguez<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou are the fullness of Reality, One without a second. Being, Knowledge, Bliss. Om, tat, sat.\u201d(Om tat sat, <\/em>\u0913\u092e\u094d \u0924\u0924\u094d \u0938\u0924\u094d, is a Sanskrit mantra meaning these are \u201cthe three words of the three forms of god.\u201d) In 1974, these words concluded the eucharistic prayer in the first \u201cOrder of Mass\u201d published by the National Biblical, Catechetical, and Liturgical Centre in Bengaluru, India. Unfortunately, a 1975 letter from the cardinal prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship \u201ccalled a stop to [such] unauthorized experimentation,\u201d and specifically cited the cessation of the Thomas Christians\u2019 so-called \u201cIndian Anaphora.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, the Roman church in 1975 did not<\/em> see such experimentation as the good fruit of the faith\u2019s proper inculturation. And so, we see a problem which so many of us liturgists face today as we watch our neighborhoods and ecclesial communities become more and more culturally diverse. Hence, the question naturally arises, \u201cHow do we minister to such communities?\u201d Well, the church in its history, both ancient and contemporary, offers three approaches: (1) adaptation, (2) inculturation, and (3) interculturation. I will explain.<\/p>\n

Adaptation is the process, as Robert Schreiter puts it, in which \u201c\u2018the faith [i]s adapted or accommodated to a very limited degree in order to communicate the Gospel message in a given cultural context.\u201d Inculturation on the other hand takes adaptation further by stressing the relationship that occurs once faith and culture meet, but only with interculturation do we clearly see and account for the interaction that takes place as well. So, on one level, you have accommodation, on another, relationship, but with interculturation, you reach interaction.<\/p>\n

As a liturgical minister, I always knew I needed to avoid adaptation, as Schreiter puts it, \u201cbecause of its simplistic and too static understanding of culture.\u201d More often than not, such superficial efforts come across as mere tokenism and once seen as such even greater divisions can ensue. Unfortunately, in ministerial praxis too many ecclesial programs still operate under this model. So, how might we go about changing this? How might we as liturgical ministers begin to foster not only a ministerial attitude of inculturation, but the ultimate attitude of interculturation which can lead to such an awesome level of inter-communal enrichment?<\/p>\n

Source: Robert Schreiter, \u201cFaith and Cultures: Challenges to a World Church,\u201d Theological Studies<\/em> 50 (1989), 746.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Rodriguez is a masters student in Liturgical Studies at St. John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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