SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A number of adaptations to the liturgy in Masses of Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Chiapas were approved by the Vatican earlier this month.
Not only can the celebrations now be conducted in their original languages, but also a few parts of the Mass were changed in order to respond to the cultural traditions of those groups.
Some of those modifications have been in place over more than five decades, being gradually incorporated by parishes and Catholic communities, according to the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. But the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas only began to work on an official systematization in 2007, Jesuit Father Felipe Ali Modad told Crux.
