Posted on 07/16/2022 6:44:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY -- When Pope Francis travels to Canada to apologize to Indigenous communities for the way the Catholic Church joined efforts to uproot them from their traditional culture and spirituality, their traditions will be on full display.
The First Nation, Métis and Inuit people will welcome Pope Francis to their lands July 24-29 wearing their traditional dress, speaking their languages, performing their songs and dances and sharing elements of their traditional styles of prayer.
Father Cristino Bouvette, a priest of the Archdiocese of Calgary, Alberta, has been working with the pope's master of liturgical ceremonies, Msgr. Diego Giovanni Ravelli, to plan the Masses and prayer services for the trip. Father Bouvette is Italian on his mother's side and Cree and Métis on his father's side.
"For Indigenous Catholics to see the Holy Father welcomed to some place like Sacred Heart Church by having smudged the space first, or facing the four directions to offer his blessing -- as simple as those gestures may seem -- clearly demonstrates a sensitivity on his part to their traditions which, though outside of any particular Catholic expression of faith, are certainly not contrary to it," the priest said in an email response to questions.
One of the events Father Bouvette has helped plan is Pope Francis' scheduled meeting July 25 with Indigenous people at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, which has been the official parish for First Nations and Métis people in Edmonton since 1993.
An elder will process into the church ahead of Pope Francis with a bowl of smoldering cedar, sage, sweetgrass and tobacco -- the common aromatics used for the "smudge" ceremony by many native peoples of North America.
"The smudge that is being proposed at Sacred Heart holds a two-fold purpose: 1) To show recognition of the......
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So much for the uniformity in liturgy that Bergoglio demands.
Anything goes in Frankenchurch, unless it predates his beloved VC II and its damn "spirit".
“Alex, I’ll take Pachamama for $1000.”
I seem to recall a story about the Lord not taking to kindly to strange fire. Something about striking two priests dead....
Dang! And here I was, taught that “we” were to go out and, maybe, like, do something like “convert the world”.
Archbishop Chaput is a Potawanami.
But since he is actually a Christian Catholic, one suspects he won’t be invited.
The Pachamama ceremonies were idolatry, but the smudge ceremony might just be the New World equivalent of incense.
Frankie the Talking Heretic is in lust with every pagan tradition, but hates Catholic Tradition with a purple passion.
Frankie.
Is.
NOT.
The.
Pope.
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