Carribean Catholics Celebrate Mass
Thank you for the link via De Fidei Obodientia, via The Curt Jester.
Why is ethnocentricity an excuse for Liturgical abuses?
Borinquen Dance Theatre dancers moved to the beat of a steel drum band.
Worshipers read biblical lessons in Spanish, French and English — the three languages spoken on the Caribbean islands…“This is what it means to be a Catholic — it’s all inclusive, not exclusive.”
Ok, so where did the “Mass” part of the Mass fit in?
I had a good chuckle at this though:
“A lot of times, we don’t particularly like each other,” Carter said. But everyone must try, he said.
This gave me a huge chuckle. For many of these Carribean ethnicities, the only thing they have in common is the ocean their islands happen to be in. Lumping together Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans like they are one culture is really kind of funny. I am Jamaican American, my husband is Puerto Rican and we had major cultural conflicts in the beginning of our marriage. The reason why it worked and the thing we had in common was being Catholic. Not our diversity, but our commonality in the Mystical Body of Christ. My Italian culture is closer to my husband’s Puerto Rican culture than my Jamaican culture is.
Gosh, whenever I see stuff like this I want to paste a “but I’m kind of a normal Catholic, really I am” sign on my shirt.