"Blocking" the Rosary? Filipinas, Mama Mary and Block Rosary Controversy

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  • ロザリオお断り：フィリピーナ、ママメアリとブロック・ロザリの論争
  • ロザリオ オコトワリ フィリピーナ ママ メアリ ト ブロック ロザリ ノ ロンソウ

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The rosary is generally accepted as a universal practice of Catholic devotion. The same cannot be said for the Block Rosary, a Filipino style of prayer with heavy European overtures that has been transported across the globe through the Filipino diaspora. In Japan, Block Rosaries are offered by Filipinos living across the country, but this presence has yet to be accepted by the local parish. Perhaps the reason is because Block Rosaries center around the home and the personal lives of the Filipino believer in contrast to the parish. This has produced a cultural insularity with Filipino indigenous overtones that discourages Japanese husbands, Filipino-Japanese children and Japanese parishioners from attendance. Research based on over a decade of parish work conducted in the Tokyo Archdiocese and a single multicultural church reveal the politics and controversy behind accepting foreign practices under the guise of multiculturalism.

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