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Intercultural Living: A Kaleidoscope Vision for the Vows

Vida Intercultural: Una vision kaleidoscópica de los votos

S. Teresa Maya, CCVI

MACC- Entrelazando Culturas

OBEDIENCE / OBEDIENCIA

Community Mediations

Mediaciones Comunitarias

OBEDIENCEOBEDIENCIA

What is the “dominant” culture in my community?

¿Cuál es la cultura“dominante” en mi

comunidad?

MACC.-ENTRELAZANDO CULTURAS T MAYA

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“scullery” COMMUNITY as “locus”• Community is the starting point.• How does it reflect diversity?• How does it organize for

diversity?• What conversations are we

having in community- at the congregational level at the local level?

•What do we hear?

• La comunidad es el punto de partido

• ¿Cómo organizar para la diversidad?

• ¿Qué conversaciones estamos teniendo en la Comunidad- a

nivel local- a nivel congregacional?

• ¿Qué escuchamos?

COMUNIDADcomo “locus”

Obedience in community

Obediencia en comunidad

Oboedire

ob in the directionAudire Hearing

En la direcciónEscuchar

Listen to understand“What is true of my small part of the human community is also true of nations when they forget to listen, or simply give up trying. Our fragile planet has never been so threatened.”

“Lo que es cierto de una pequeña parte de la Comunidad humana también es cierto de las naciones cuando olvidan escuchar, o simplemente intentar. Nuestro fragil planeta nunca ha estado en tanto riesgo.”

Escuchar para entender


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Capítulos Chapters

CULTURE…PlaceIdeologyTheologyPoliticsFamilyCustomsGenerationLanguage

CULTURA…Lugar

IdeologíaTeologíaPolíticaFamilia

CostumbresGeneración

Lenguage

Our Constitutions / Directory• How are they

“culturally” mediated?

• What is essential?

• How do we “inculturate”?

• ¿Cómo están“culturalmente” mediadas?

• ¿Qué es esencial?• ¿Cómo

inculturamos?

Nuestras ConstitucionesDirectorio

CONSTITUTIONSBy the vow of religious obedience the sisters commit themselves in a spirit of faith to accept the decisions of those serving in positions of legitimate authority in accordance with the constitutions. They also obey the Holy Father in virtue of the vow. They are committed to the church and the Holy Father in loyalty and obedience. They actively seek the will of God in prayerful reflection and in consultation with the appropriate persons. [CCVI, 24]

Por el voto de obediencia religiosa, enespíritu de fe, nos comprometemos a aceptar las decisiones de quienes sirven en puestos de autoridad legítima de acuerdo a las Constituciones. Del mismo modo, en virtud del voto nos comprometemos a obedecer al Sumo Pontífice. Tenemos un compromiso de lealtad y obediencia con la Iglesia y con el Santo Padre. Buscamos con diligencia la voluntad de Dios a la luz de la oración y de la reflexión, y en la consulta que hacemos a personas competentes. [CCVI, 24]

CONSTITUCIONESKey concepts

OBEDIENCE OBEDIENCIA

AUTORIDAD AUTHORITY

STRUCTURE ESTRUCTURA

GOVERNANCE GOBIERNO

PARTICIPACIÓN PARTICIPATION

Conceptos claves

SOCIOLOGYSOCIOLOGÍASOCIOLOGYSOCIOLOGÍA

HISTORYHISTORIAHISTORYHISTORIA


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AUTHORITYAUTORIDAD

GOVERNANCEGOBIERNO

STRUCTUREESTRUCTURA

PARTICIPATIONPARTICIPACIÓN

Low context culture

Positionalposicional

Personal identityIdentidadpersonal

rules‐ reglas Opinions formed independently

High Contextculture

Relationalrelacional

Group identityIdentidad en

grupo

Internalized Internal

Opinions formed in groups

Example:

“You didn’t come to say hello”

“no te acercaste a saludar”

“We need to hear all voices”

“Queremosescuchar todas las

voces”

“they write the policies, we live

them out” “ellas escriben la política nosotrasla seguimos”

““They don’t think for themselves”

“no piensan porellas mismas”

CONVERSATION

• Consider the different understandings of community and obedience in your Institute.

• Find one case that shows how the different cultural understandings has created tension.

• Explain why using Eric Hall [Low context-High context]

• Considera la diferente manera de entender Comunidad y obediencia en tu instituto.

• Encuentra un caso que demuestra cómo los diferentes enfoques culturales crearon tensión.

• Explica el caso usando Eric Hall [Contexto bajo-Alto]

CONVERSACIONES

CELIBATO / CELIBACY

Called to Intercultural Friendship

Llamadas a la amistad intercultural

CELIBACYCELIBATO

RELATIONSHIPS RELACIONES

The challenge of ”the other”?A HISTORICAL LESSON


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Clilp - From movie “1492 Conquest of Paradise”The moment of encounter

The questions…

Sixteenth Century questions for our time?•Are they human?•Do they have a soul?•Are they like us? •Are they civilized?

The “Valladolid” Debate

By Luis Fernández García ‐ Own work, CC BY‐SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5969223

By Anonymous ‐ Informations source : National Geographic & Álvaro Huerga, Bartolomé de Las Casas: Vie et œuvres., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61305

Bartolomé de las Casas

By Al pie de la imagen figuran los datos de su autor. ‐ Libro «Retratos de Españoles ilustres» publicado por la Real Imprenta de Madrid. Según la información brindada en el prólogo, las imágenes contenidas y los textos fueron realizados por distintos autores., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6382683

Juan Ginesde Sepúlveda

Francisco de Vitoria

Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8219445

AlthoughtheChristianfaithmayhavebeenannouncedtotheIndianswithadequatedemonstrationandtheyhaverefusedtoreceiveit,yetthisisnotareasonwhichjustifiesmakingwaronthemanddeprivingthemoftheirproperty.

…Christianprincescannot,evenbytheauthorizationofthePope,restraintheIndiansfromsinsagainstthelawofnatureorpunishthembecauseofthosesins.

‐FranciscodeVitoria,DeIndis,Sixthproposition

What is our debate today?

What are the questions we are asking?


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The Other as “Barbarian”

TzvetanTodorov

http://tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com/IsbnImages/9780226805757.jpg

Who is Other?

It all started in Greece!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/The_Parthenon_in_Athens.jpg

Civilizedvs.

Barbarian

The Greeks and the Other

GREEKS OTHER

“US” “THEM”

CITIZEN FOREIGNER

SPEAKSGREEK

DO NOT SPEAKGREEK

From Other to Barbarian

NOT GREEK

•FOREIGNER

NO GREEK LANGUAGE

•NOT CAPABLE

NOT CIVILIZED

•NOT HUMAN

“Others in History”

Aztec Empire•Chichimeca= “Cannot Speak Nahuatl” •Spanish translation= “Savage”

Chichimecas lived in the “North”Consequences--- military expeditions

http://caviews.com/sbarbara.htm


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English Only…•U.S. Immigrants and English•English and competency

The case of our German SistersEnglish only

http://media3.snbcnews.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060612/060612_chessesteckas_hmed_12p.grid‐6x2.jpg


English Only…

https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/09/english‐only/

The Other as “Human”

Christianity and other•The “radical” message of Christianity… Paul…

“We are no longer Greek or Barbarian, slave or free…”

•The defenders of theIndians– denied “other” was “barbarian” By Anonymous ‐ Informations source : National Geographic & Álvaro Huerga, Bartolomé de Las Casas: Vie et œuvres.,

Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61305

Bartolomé de las Casas

Humanity / inhumanity“This inhuman side is part of the human. Until we recognize that inhumanity is something human, we will be stuck with a pious lie. By behaving in an odious way, human beings do not stop being human. More: their bests qualities and their worst failings, what they call their “humanity” and their “inhumanity”, stem from the same origin. Compassion and cruelty depend on the faculty an individual has to imagine the effect of his attitude on someone else.”

-Tzvetan Todorov, The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Civilized…A Civilized person is one who is able, at all times and in all places, to recognize the humanity of others fully. So two stages needs to be crossed before anyone can become civilized: in the first stage, you discover that other slive in a way different from you; in the second, you agree to see them as bearers of the same humanity as yourself. The moral demand comes with an intellectual dimension: getting those with who you live to understand a foreign identity, whether individual or collective, is an act of civilization, since this is the way you are enlarging the circle of humanity”. -Tzvetan Todorov, The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations


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Living together

Greater possibilities for communication thus turn into greater possibilities for encounter and solidarity for everyone. If we were able to take this route, it would be so good, so soothing, so liberating and hope-filled! To go out of ourselves and to join others is healthy for us. To be self-enclosed is to taste the bitter poison of immanence, and humanity will be worse for every selfish choice we make. (EG, 87)

An examination of conscience

RELATIONSHIPS RELACIONES

An on-going, never ending process! Reconciled

DiversityDiversidad reconiliada

MestizajeTransformativeLove

¡Un proceso continuo, que nunca termina

Intercultural living as a spiritual taskLa vida Intercultural es una tarea espiritual• Back to Jesus: Regresar a Jesus

• The Canaanite Woman Mt 15:23-28• The Centurion Mt 8: 5-13 • The Samaritan Woman Jn 4

• A spirituality of movement (Kaleidoscope)Espiritualidad de movimiento

• A theology for Intercultural living.Teología de la vida intercultural

• Called to a new “mestizaje”. [Virgilio Elizondo]

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size680/Father_Virgil_Elizondo_Courtesy_of_the_Archdiocese_of_San_Antonio_CNA.jpg

“The message of peace is not about a negotiated settlement but rather the conviction that the unity brought by the Spirit can harmonize every diversity. It overcomes every conflict by creating a new and promising synthesis. Diversity is a beautiful thing when it can constantly enter into a process of reconciliation and seal a sort of cultural covenant resulting in a “reconciled diversity”. As the bishops of the Congo have put it: “Our ethnic diversity is our wealth… It is only in unity, through conversion of hearts and reconciliation, that we will be able to help our country to develop on all levels.”

-EG, No. 230

La diversidad es bella cuando acepta entrar constantemente en un proceso de reconciliación, hasta sellar una especie de pacto cultural que haga emerger una « diversidad reconciliada »,


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Transformative Love Amor que transforma

“Deep interracial friendship and love can shatter the false personal identity built into the racialized set of meanings and values that informs American Society.”

https://m.alibaba.com/guide/shop/racial‐justice‐and‐the‐catholic‐church_30158465.html

“La Amistad interracial profunda y el amor pueden romper la falsa identidad personal que se construye desde una perspectiva racial que influye en el significado e informa los valores de la sociedad Americana..”

‐ Bryan Massingale, Racial Justice and the Catholic Church

Culture of Encounter Cultura del Encuentro

Hna Mercedes Casas

POVERTY / POBREZA

We have plenty

Tenemos suficiente

POVERTYPOBREZA


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How do we hold everything in common?

¿Cómo tenemos todoen común?

CASES: Vow of Poverty• Identify one or two situations where you believe culture has been a determinant factor in your institute’s understanding of poverty.

• Identifica una o dos situaciones dónde creas que la cultura haya sido un factor que determina la comprensión de pobreza.

CASES: Voto de pobreza

GRACIAS

THANK YOU


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