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Archive for category Inculturation
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin
at the January 6, 2011 meeting of the Catholic Academy for Liturgy.
Our challenges: inculturation, sensus fidelium, collegiality, hospitality and the new evangalization, ecumenism, liturgical theology, amplified hybridization of the Roman rite.
by J. Michael Joncas
What might this medieval practice of troping the introit suggest to us? No premium was placed on absolute liturgical uniformity from community to community. The tropes were ephemeral; they responded to a particular location, era and culture and disappeared from the liturgy when any of those factors changed.
Today’s Mineapolis StarTribune reports on a clash between the Church of Gichitwaa Kateri and the chancery over the incorporation of Indian elements into the celebration of Mass. Fr. James Notebaart, pastor of the parish for nearly 20 years, encouraged such inculturation of the liturgy.
“Translation issues have been a recurring point of discussion in Japan for centuries. In the past 10 years there are a number of vociferous debates on Japanese translations of everything from prayers to the catechism, to the Mass,” notes UCANEWS.com.
The rolling revolution
Oct 16
If one considers a “revolution” to be “a complete or marked change in something,” then the introduction of the Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI in 19701 marked the culmination of a huge and quite successful rolling liturgical revolution that spanned the twentieth century.
The Nation Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy in the Philippines issued this statement in favor of vernacular, inculturation, active participation, liturgical study, and lay ministry.
The speech in Ireland by Robert Blair Kaiser was last night.
Robert Blair Kaiser, well-known reporter of the Second Vatican Council for Time magazine, is giving a talk titled “Catholic Church Reform: No more thrones.”
We have a responsibility to share the great riches of our nations with those who have so much less.