{"id":328292,"date":"2016-05-25T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/at-a-school-of-inculturation-in-kenya\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:12","slug":"at-a-school-of-inculturation-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/at-a-school-of-inculturation-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"At a School of Inculturation in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20160525-01\"<\/a>When asked about her thoughts on inculturation today<\/strong> Maria Voce<\/a> responded<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s the incarnation of the light of the Gospel in the African cultures,\u201d She was addressing an audience of 350 people who were attending the School of Inculturation <\/a>held last week at the Focolare\u2019s permanent Mariapolis Piero<\/a> near Nairobi, Kenya<\/a>. There was the same joy and enthusiasm as when Chiara Lubich<\/a> had placed the first stone of that Mariapolis in 1992, and of the School of Inculturation that would later be erected there. The Focolare foundress had imagined a school for across the board dialogue in the permanent Mariapolis, dialogue between the Gospel and the African cultures, a school that would give a new impulse to evangelization. Co-president Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/a> went on to say: \u201c\u2019Making yourself one\u2019 (see Cor. 19:22) has Jesus in his abandonment on the cross for its model, when he made himself nothing for humankind, a nothing of love. Like Him, we should also learn to make ourselves one in front of the different cultures, so that we can then experience that this is never a nothingness that nullifies, but only enriches.\u201d For many of those attending the school,<\/strong> this was also their answer to the many challenges that the African continent faces including inculturation. But it is also an answer to the phenomenon of globalization. \"Emmaus\u201cInculturation is required,\u201d Mor\u00e1n remarked<\/strong>. \u201cBy living the Spirituality of Unity we can draw closer to other people\u2019s cultures with respect for their truth, and discover through dialogue the beauty of our differences not only in Africa but everywhere in the world.\u201d Maria Voce went on: \u201ca world with so many problems on its shoulders because of the lack of peace and harmony. . . By \u2018making ourselves one\u2019 as deeply as possible, we promote inculturation which can be a process towards reconciliation.\u201d\u00a0 Since its founding twenty four years ago \u201cthe school has developed the tools that were first identified when the school began, and they have reached a second generation.\u201d Looking to the future, \u201cwe\u2019re moving into a new phase that may lead to further proliferation of the school.\u201d These words by the president sounded like a \u201ccall to new awareness and responsibility\u201d as many observed, to continue on the path of inculturation that Chiara had intuited after first coming into contact with the people of Africa in 1960. The Focolare president particularly stressed the understanding Chiara had in 1992 regarding the light of the Gospel as a pure \u201cwhite light\u201d capable of penetrating and illumining the diverse cultures making them into a reciprocal gift for one another and for the world. Peter from Cameroon remarked<\/strong>: \u201cMaria Voce pointed our hearts to our particular calling to incarnate the Spirituality of Unity that is never imposed, but as Chiara said is a \u2018white light\u2019 that illumines. Globalization has become an unstoppable process in which our specific gift is this life of the Gospel.\u201d Nicod\u00e8me from Burundi<\/strong>: \u201cAs I return home I seem to understand that I have to start from myself, living the Gospel in the midst of society and politics and in the conflicts, so that I can be an answer of love to the expectations of so many African countries. We can\u2019t put this off.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dialogue between Gospel and African cultures in the light of the Spirituality of Unity. A summer course held near Nairobi, Kenya with students, theologians and anthropologists. Focolare president Maria Voce and co-president Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n were also there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}