“Most Indian Seminaries And Convents Perform Hindu Rituals”
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The rite was "approved" by the Vatican as part of an 1969 Indian Rite Mass. It consists in offering a ceremonial dish to a deity, joss sticks, flowers and oil lamps included.
An Indian priest told ChurchMilitant.com that such syncretistic practices have become “de rigueur in almost all Indian seminaries, convents and religious houses of formation.”
A similar ritual was performed at Sister Alphonse-Marie Eppinger's September 2018 beatification in Strasbourg, France.
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