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By CAROL GLATZ
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY - People in Western countries need to see the different cultural expressions of faith that exist in other parts of the world, said some participants at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon. Panelists attending a Vatican briefing Oct. 7 were asked to comment on the way some media outlets and some people on social media expressed shock, disdain or concern for the presence of a wooden statue of a bare- breasted pregnant woman during a prayer service in the Vatican Gardens Oct. 4 and about the Catholic in- digenous man who brought up the offertory gifts at Mass Oct. 6 wearing a headdress adorned with feathers. "It is even more impor- tant that the world of Europe and Rome learn that other cultures also know how to talk about life, about well- being, fraternal coexistence," said French-born Bishop Em- manuel Lafont, who leads the Diocese of Cayenne in French Guiana, bordering the Ama- zon basin. It is important people see there is another way to live "and not just consume and accumulate things," he said through a translator. "There can't be just one voice. Every culture has its voice and its wisdom," he added. He said he told the bishops of France years ago that if they were going to talk about ecology, then they also need- ed to listen to what indig- enous people in the American and African continents had to say about their relation- ship with nature. Once upon a time, these indigenous ways of life would have been considered forms of "idolatry" or a sign of "a lack of civilization," he said, "because we thought that only we had the truth and other people had nothing." Giving visibility to differ- ent expressions and cultures not only will be a big part of discussions at the synod, but it also will be a "great service we can offer these people who believe they are more civilized than others," Bishop Lafont said. Bishop David Martnez de Aguirre Guinea, apostolic vicar of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, told reporters the best response to people's concern or worry about indigenous adornments or expressions is to give indigenous people more visibility. The indigenous headdress is worn for very special oc- casions - like the synod's opening Mass, he said. These images are very "striking" and that can make it hard for some people to go beyond appearances and look more deeply and dis- cover what truly lies in the heart of these people, said the bishop, who is a member of the Dominicans. "There are many things to discover" about the peo- ple of the Amazon, and the church can help them show the world who they are, he added. "We can discover it in their contact, their way of relating to nature, their way of relat- ing with each other, their way of establishing alliances, of not accumulating anything in life other than human re- lationships," he said. "They have their own voice," the bishop said, and the church wants to help them speak for themselves rather than simply being the object of another's attention. Commenting about the statue of the pregnant wom- an, the Spanish-born bishop said he has seen the image before and it seems to be a nonspecific symbol for fertil- ity, life and women. The statue could be seen as symbolizing "the Amazon like an entity that is preg- nant with life for the entire planet, for all people." Sister Alba Teresa Cediel Castillo, an indigenous mem- ber of the Congregation of Missionary Sisters of Im- maculate Mary and of St. Catherine of Siena, said she agreed with the bishop's in- terpretation. But she said she would add that it was her hope that "this pregnancy, this life that we are celebrating in the synod may give birth and not be a miscarriage." Sister Cediel said she works with sisters who min- ister to the poor and indig- enous, either in big cities or in remote areas of the Ama- zon region. Women religious "have a very great presence in the Amazon," she said. "There are very few priests, and many have to go from place to place to place," trying to min- ister to many people spread out over vast distances. "But we (sisters) have a constant presence in educa- tion, in health care, in proj- ects that (communities) have for development," she said. By virtue of their baptism, she said, "we accompany in- digenous people in various events." When a priest "cannot be present and there is a need for a baptism, we baptize," she said. "If someone wants to get married, we are there and we witness to this couple's love. "And many times, we have listened to confessions," she said. "We haven't given ab- solution, but in the depths of our heart, we have said, with the humility that this man or woman approaches us, in times of sickness or when they are close to death, we believe that God the Father acts there, too." "The presence of women in the Amazon is great and very fertile" with the pres- ence of many missionaries and religious congregations, said Sister Cediel. "I believe women must have greater participation in church life, but little by little. We will get there, but little by little" and with dia- logue, she said.
Indigenous bring needed diversity to synod, bishops say
By JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY - The Catholic Church's mission in the world is to spread the fire of God's love and must not be limited to the "ordinary maintenance' of those who already know the Gospel," Pope Francis said. Celebrating the opening Mass of the Synod of Bish- ops for the Amazon Oct. 6, the pope said, "Jesus did not come to bring a gentle eve- ning breeze, but to light a fire on the earth." "If everything continues as it was, if we spend our days content that 'this is the way things have always been done,' then the gift vanishes, smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defend- ing the status quo," he said. Among the thousands fill- ing St. Peter's Basilica were members of various indig- enous communities from the Amazon region. Some wore traditional headpieces while others painted their faces with ornate designs, proud- ly displaying the artistry of their cultures. Several were chosen to present the offertory gifts during the Mass, solemn- ly walking up to the altar, some barefoot, and rever- ently bowing after presenting the gifts of bread and wine to the pope. Jair Reis, one of about 1,200 Maragua Indians liv- ing in Brazil's Amazonas state, attended the Mass. He told Catholic News Service he has received threats from miners who have entered his people's lands illegally. "We want our voices to be heard," he said. "Not for me, but for all the indigenous people of Brazil." Jeremias Oliveira dos Santos, a Mura Indian also from Amazonas, said, "We need the support of the syn- od." A large mining company has invaded the Mura lands. He hopes the synod will help call attention especially to the need to demarcate indig- enous territories. His peo- ple's demarcation is still in process, but Brazilian Presi- dent Jair Bolsonaro has said his government will not give another centimeter to indig- enous peoples. "We are living peoples" who depend on the forest and rivers for survival, he said. "People living along the entire course of the Amazon are threatened." In his homily, the pope reflected on the day's sec- ond reading from St. Paul's Letter to Timothy. In it, the apostle reminds Timothy to "stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands." Bishops, the pope said, have received the laying on of hands so that "we in turn might be hands raised to intercede before the Father, helping hands extended to our brothers and sisters." The Holy Spirit, which "is not a spirit of timidity, but of prudence," stokes the flames of God's gift, he said. "Some believe that pru- dence is a 'customs control' virtue that stops everything so as not to not make mis- takes," the pope said depart- ing from his prepared re- marks. "No. Prudence is a Christian virtue, a virtue of life. It is the virtue of gover- nance. And he has given us this spirit of prudence." Citing the catechism of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said that prudence should not be confused with fear; it is a "virtue that dis- poses practical reason to dis- cern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achiev- ing it." "Prudence is not indeci- sion; it is not a defensive attitude," he said. "It is the virtue of the pastor who, in order to serve with wisdom, is able to discern, to be re- ceptive to the newness of the spirit." Fidelity to the newness of the spirit, he added, "is a grace that we must ask for in prayer." "May the spirit, who makes all things new, give us his own daring prudence; may he inspire our synod to renew the paths of the church in the Amazon so that the fire of mission will con- tinue to burn," the pope said. "So many of our brothers and sisters in the Amazon are bearing heavy crosses and awaiting the liberating consolation of the Gospel, the church's caress of love," the pope said. However, the pope also said that in the church's his- tory, there were times when peoples and cultures were "devoured without love and without respect." "How many times has God's gift been imposed, not offered; how many times has there been colonization rath- er than evangelization!" the pope said. "May God preserve us from the greed of new forms of colonialism." Recalling the fires that devasted the Amazon region in August, the pope said that such fires are "set by inter- ests that destroy" and "blaze up when people want to pro- mote only their own ideas, form their own group, wipe out differences in the attempt to make everyone and every- thing uniform." Speaking off-the-cuff, Pope Francis recalled a conversa- tion he had with Brazilian Cardinal Cludio Hummes, who often would visit the tombs of missionaries who died in the Amazon. "With a bit of shrewd- ness," he said, Cardinal Hummes told him, "'Do not forget them. They deserve to be canonized.'" "For them, for those who are giving their lives now, for those who have given their lives, with them, let us jour- ney together," the pope said.
Fear, status quo smother fire of God's love, pope says at opening synod Mass
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People participated in a prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica at the start of the first session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 7.
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