Hindu Rites of Passage and the Christian Sacraments

Sebastian Painadath
Originally published in The Way, 1999. Republished here by kind permission.

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“Trying to imitate the rituals of another religion is bad inculturation. But an open encounter with the world of symbols of another religion can help Christians to discover the deeper meaning of our Christian symbols and to bring to life some of the lost dimensions of our rituals.”