Future Cardinal At Synod about Indigenous Liturgical Abuses: "Dignity", "Reverence"
Spengler is President of the Bishops of Brazil and also of the Latin American Bishops' Council. He described the dull and disastrous ex-synod as "a kind of new Pentecost" (sic).
The archbishop confirmed that "we are talking about the possibility of an Amazonian rite". There are different peoples, cultures and languages in the Amazon: "I think it could be easier to find ways to inculturate the Roman rite than to find a rite that can be typical of this region, a new rite."
He believes that the Roman rite "not only can, but must be inculturated into individual societies".
Archbishop Spengler referred to a Eucharist presided over by local priests in Manáus in 2023: "I was very impressed by the dignity, reverence and attention with which it was presided," he mystified.
He acknowledged that these indigenous priests preside at the Eucharist "not as we are used to in our own reality".
In August, Spengler explained this "inculturation" to CruxNow.com: "Indigenous groups use a kind of clay bowl instead of a thurible and burn their usual resins in it. These are examples of cultural and identity elements of such peoples. So we're not creating anything, we're just building a new rite according to existing [pagan] practices".
Brazilian commentators on Gloria.tv and all over social media have the same message about Spengler: "Not a single believing and practising Catholic in Brazil thinks that Dom Jaime is Catholic.
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