{"id":6136,"date":"2025-09-18T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:31:33","slug":"a-message-in-the-language-of-the-local-culture-c7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"A MESSAGE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOCAL CULTURE (C7)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have as our goal to establish Christian communities and Churches deeply rooted in the local culture and fully responsible for their own development and growth.<\/strong><\/em> (Constitution 7)<\/h3>\n

While Eugene and the early missionaries did not have the background of modern studies in sociology, anthropology, inculturation etc, they nevertheless had a profound love for the people they were sent to. They tried to adapt their message using local customs. From the beginning Eugene founded his Missionary family specifically to preach in the local Provencal language. He went along with local customs even if he himself was not always \u00a0convinced of them, but he realized their importance for the people.<\/h3>\n

Over the years many Oblates, as part of their missionary work, have produced grammars and dictionaries for various Indigenous languages. They were pioneers in studying and documenting these languages, often putting the spoken word into writing, compiling dictionaries, and translations of religious texts.<\/h3>\n

Father Lacombe\u2019s ladder of salvation is just one example of conveying his message through the expressions of the local culture (see:https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/library\/archives\/News\/spotlight\/01-2009.php<\/a>).<\/h3>\n

Today the newest challenge is to evangelize by entering into the \u201clocal culture\u201d of social media and artificial intelligence.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have as our goal to establish Christian communities and Churches deeply rooted in the local culture and fully responsible for their own development and growth. (Constitution 7) While Eugene and the early missionaries did not have the background of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}