Mary of a Myriad Faces exhibit opens October 19

"Mary of a Myriad Faces," opened on October 19 at the Maurice Hall, Good Shepherd Convent in Quezon City.  It is a collection of images featuring Mary whom artists incarnated within their respective cultures and traditions.

Photo: Blessing of the exhibit

Fr. Manny Flores SJ, national director of the Apostleship of Prayer blessed the exhibit. Present during the opening of the exhibit were Good Shepherd Sisters, friends,  families and mission partners. 

The Christian message is not bound either by a geographic area or a specific culture. All human beings are cultural beings. Mary, like Jesus must be culturally relevant if she is really to be understood and appreciated. (Louis Luzbetah)

So important a role is ascribed to culture that Paul VI

's Apostolic exhortation in Evangelii Nuntiandi, warns that evangelization loses much of its force and effectiveness it if does not take into consideration the actual people to whom it is addressed, if it odes not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it does nto answer the questions they ask, and if it does not have an impact on their concrete life. (EN 63)

Photo: Sr. M. Diane Cabasagan performs Binaylan, a Banwaon dance, during the program.

The exhibit is mounted through the initiative of Sr. Victoria Joson, to celebrate the  Year of Faith and the call to new evangelization, and to specially honor Mary this month. It wll run from October 19  to October 30,2013, 10 a.m. to 5  p.m. Admission is free.

Interested individuals may call Sr. Victoria at tel. 913 0875 or CP 09065582732.

	Photos by Sr. Emma Marzan