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Nine Days of Prayer and Reflection on Mission
Eighth Day: Mission is … Inculturation Inculturation is a big word which is popular today. We always knew the word Incarnation which recalls God entering the human condition, pitching His tent among us. Inculturation then is the meeting between faith and culture which requires great time and patience. It is letting God’s word, Jesus’ Gospel, come alive in our life situations with all our cultural symbols and songs. But above all, this encounter is filled with many surprises and cannot be predetermined by any law. Faith needs culture to become human and visible. And culture needs faith to be purified and redeemed. Racism, violence, sexism, oppression, and injustice cannot coexist with Jesus’ Gospel. Jesus had a message of good news to the Jews, Samaritans, Romans, and Greeks. Inculturation requires fidelity to the Gospel: “They who remain in me and I in them will bear much fruit.” (John 15:5) Inculturation requires fidelity to the human condition in its concrete situations of sorrow and hope, of struggles and joys. Reflect & Act
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We cannot impose evangelization but we can certainly be present to
people’s needs through our actions and concerns.