Tangaza Vision(Fed Up With Inculturation Talk!)

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dc.contributor.authorTangaza University College
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-02T08:05:45Z
dc.date.available2019-05-02T08:05:45Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.description.abstractWe have been friends=that is what I most think about as I clean my office, answer phone calls, greet visitors these days dropping by. We have been friends .... May 18th 1988 Fr. Luciano Odorico, SDB, the second rector of Tangaza showed me the rector's office, room A 10, at Tangaza. He handed me the keys to the door and said, "I haven't really used it yet, you see it has only a desk in it" --it was a bare room otherwise. Then he showed me the Constitu­tions of Tangaza, the section on the rector, article 4.55: "it shall be the duty of the rector to maintain unity and harmony of purpose ... " "This is the4 most important thing you have to do," Fr. Odorico V said. "Unity and harmony of purpose"--"He is to see to it that all departments are operated efficiently and according to proper academic and educational standards [art. 4.l]." So the Constitutions say. They don't say much how you are supposed to do all that--"maintain unity and harmony of pur­pose" ... make sure "all departments are operated efficiently and according to proper standards." How? How? I was eight months in Africa, eight months a missionary. What did I know. So I thought, maybe start by making friends with those who know something. Try to make everyone feel at home, so they can share what they have, share who they are. Maybe something good will happen ... And so I tried ... we tried. To make a friend, start by being a friend--not judging or criticizing, but visiting, asking, listening. And so our friendship grew. So we grew to­ gether. We did not always agree. It is easy for strangers to agree--the agreeableness of con­ventional politeness and conformity is easier for mere acquaintances and fellow travellers than it is for friends. Social amenity is easy when you share nothing of any importance. For friends it is another matter indeed. It would be easier to agree if we all shared a common culture, a common tongue; com­mon customs. But how· could we ever agree if we cannot even begin to understand one another.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/919
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectInculturationen_US
dc.subjectGoodbyeen_US
dc.subjectKimaryoen_US
dc.subjectChurchen_US
dc.subjectEvangelizationen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.titleTangaza Vision(Fed Up With Inculturation Talk!)en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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