The Asian Family towards a Culture of Integral Life: A Personal Reflection on The Eight FABC Plenary Assembly, Daejeon, South Korea  

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Prior, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: East Asian Pastoral Review vol. 42 no. 3 (2005), page 282.
Topik: Personal Reflection; Asian Family

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Majestic and elegant, the melody was carried by a single pin oboe which gently invited the other instruments to participate at the end of each phrase. This traditional music from the Korean court of yesteryear created within us a sense of profound peace. Yet not long after attaining near absolute inner silence, we were woken from our ecstasy by sanjo rhythms, as improvised folk music gradually increased in tempo, in line with the urgent beat of a janggu drum. The evening climaxed with a vibrant, not to say ear-shattering, percussion quartet pounding out rustic music, the vivid rhythm driven by the players' ever-increasing enthusiasm. Within an hour we had moved from the "moonlight-onwater" harmony of the royal court to the thundering drums of the downtrodden minjung (oppressed). This concert, by the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, mirrored the challenge facing the churches belonging to the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC): to survive contentedly as small, quiet pockets of Christianity set apart from the wider society or boldly enter the drum-beat of Asia's masses who seek dignity and identity in an uncertain world.

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