Excessive Inculturation

Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony

Function: Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA

Title: Cardinal Priest of Ss Quattro Coronati

Birthdate: Feb 27, 1936	Country: USA

Elevated: Jun 28, 1991	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Excessive Inculturation
Oct 16, 2004
I want to warn against an excessive “inculturation” that is destroying our liturgy. In the past generation, we have introduced into the liturgy some practices and attitudes from North American society that have no place there.

For example: the hurried pace, the tyranny of the clock, the inattention to the arts, the casual tone of a presider, the “what can I get out of it?” approach of the consumer, the “entertain me” attitude of a nation of television watchers. All these are the wrong sort of inculturation. Their prevalence shows how difficult it is to seek what in the culture offers a true correspondence with the spirit of the liturgy.

From: “Gather Faithfully Together”. A Guide for Sunday Mass. Feast of Our Lady of the Angels, September 4, 1997.

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