Catholic festivals in Vietnam and tourism development orientations

Chapter 3 Summary

Since ancient times, in traditional cultural activities, Vietnamese people have organized spiritual cultural activities, either organized by the Central Government or by villages and communes according to solemn and sacred rituals, with the respectful and voluntary participation of the people. These are festivals, ceremonies to worship Heaven, Earth, Gods and Saints, with the purpose of praying for national peace, people's peace, and children's happiness.

Within a clan or a family, there are also spiritual and cultural activities. Through these spiritual and cultural activities, people cultivate their minds and accumulate virtues to become better, more united, more virtuous, and reduce evil and bad things in their hearts. The positive meaning of spiritual and cultural activities is exploited very effectively by Vietnamese people in educating future generations and consolidating the community. Spiritual and cultural activities have become a healthy and humane cultural need of Vietnamese people.

CONCLUDE

Maybe you are interested!

Through the material and spiritual life of people, beliefs and religions have imbued the national culture with many colors. Religious worshiping establishments are often the places where religious followers perform rituals and worship, and at the same time, they are also places to preserve traditional culture, making the national culture have eternal vitality.

Nowadays, the influence of religion on Vietnamese cultural and social life is very large. The introduction and development of Catholic culture for thousands of years has left our country a huge heritage, which is the system of churches present in all villages and communes, and unique Catholic festivals. This is also a priceless resource for us to orient tourism development. Because everyone knows that when material life is increasingly improved, society becomes more modern, people have more and more needs to improve their spiritual life. Therefore, the development of spiritual tourism in the near future is an inevitable need, especially for a country with many types of beliefs and religions like Vietnam.

Spiritual tourism to holy sites will help people to release painful emotions, cultivate the mind and spirit of wisdom. Spiritual tourism is essential for the human spirit in modern society. It includes both the journey of searching for traditional cultural values and finding oneself. Awakening the enlightened life of tourists at spiritual sites is the goal of spiritual tours.

Vietnam has also just started paying attention to religious tourism, a type of sightseeing and visiting tourism. Spiritual tourism has recently been formed and is developing in Asian countries, especially Buddhist countries such as India, Japan, China, Thailand. Every year, Japanese religious agencies in conjunction with travel agencies organize tours for thousands of pilgrims from Japan to Buddhist relics in India. Thailand, Myanmar. Europe has also annually organized many tourist groups to participate in religious festivals, including major Catholic festivals. Courses to learn and study religion, Meanwhile in our country, on the tourism map, on promotional channels,

promotion, people still do not see these places mentioned as destinations for this type of tourism .

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen state management of tourism, develop strategies, and manage the implementation of tourism development plans for each province and region to create unique and specialized tourism products, while creating high connectivity in development.

The tourism orientation is that visitors come to make pilgrimages, admire in solemn respect, preserve the innocent identity in the practice of the beliefs of the indigenous people. That requires the tourism organization itself to outline a model that is supported by the pagoda and the indigenous people, it cannot be done carelessly. Make visitors come there to see the unique features of the locality, not to stand and watch the chaotic scenes, selling tourist goods. Tourists never judge the religious disguise, they want to come to see the real thing and... experience, admire the real scene. And for them, that is a real approach to the "spirituality", the "soul" of Vietnam.

Therefore, there needs to be a specific strategy such as: Building key tours to sacred sites and unique religious festivals, and at the same time, there must be connections between provinces in the region.

Propaganda and promotion are extremely necessary measures. Strengthen propaganda work widely in the community to raise awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage, understanding of the benefits of tourism development and the negative aspects that this development can bring. Doing a good job of propaganda and promotion of tourism will attract a number of tourists not only domestically but also internationally. There should be many publications with many forms of advertising sold in many public places and tourist attractions.

It is important that tourism managers as well as religious leaders need to see the enormous potential of pagodas and religious churches as well as their role and position in the spiritual life of all Vietnamese people. They are not only places for spiritual activities but also places for

cultural and religious activities of the village community. Once seeing that importance, surely religious leaders cannot help but pay attention to investing appropriately in the relics, in which investing in tourism development is something that cannot be ignored.

Coordinate tourism planning with urban planning to unify construction projects so as not to affect the landscape environment. Planning historical sites based on tourism planning will turn valuable sites into tourist attractions while integrating with plans to restore and preserve the sites.

There needs to be a cultural orientation in tourism business at historical sites and scenic spots to avoid commercialization of cultural relics and prevent uncultural phenomena in tourism business at historical sites.

There needs to be a plan for human resource development in line with tourism development in the area. Thoroughly implement the motto of using culture to develop tourism and vice versa, develop tourism to preserve and maintain cultural identity.

However, in reality, in Vietnam, this type of tourism is just emerging and developing spontaneously. That requires us to have both a macro-level strategy and specific measures. If there is a feasible strategy and thorough application, this type of tourism will quickly develop its strengths in the country in general and the region in particular. It is necessary to implement synchronous measures so that when tourists come to religious and spiritual sites, they will see the unique religious features of the locality, see, feel, and contemplate. Spiritual cultural tourism will truly help tourists approach the "spirituality" and "soul" of Vietnam.

References

1. Nguyen Hong: History of missionary work in Vietnam, volume 1, Present, SG 1959

2. Bible - Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House - 1988.

3. Catholic holidays - Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House - 1995.

4. Philippines: - Translated by Le Huy Hoa - Tre Publishing House, HCMC)

5. Nguyen Hong Duong: - Catholic rituals and lifestyle in Vietnamese culture - Social Sciences Publishing House - H, 2001.

6. Vatican II Council - Faculty of Theology, Pontifical Institute of St. Pius X - Dalat, 1972. Ho Chi Minh, 2002.

7. Nguyen Hong Duong – Religion in cultural and development relations in Vietnam, Social Sciences Publishing House, Hanoi, 2004.

8. The moon and star symbol is the Virgin Mary. The anchor symbol of the coastal parishioners represents their firm belief in the Virgin Mary.

10. Vietnamese Catholic Newspaper

11. Culture Newspaper

12. www.conggiao.vn

13. www.cinet.gov.vn

14. http://vi.wikipedia.org

15. www.dulichvietnam.com.vn

INDEX

INTRODUCTION 2

CHAPTER 1: CATHOLICISM AND VIETNAMESE CULTURE 4

1. The process of integrating Christian culture with world cultures 4

1.1 In some European countries 4

1.2 Cultural adaptation of some Catholic priests in some Asian countries 6

1.2.1 Nobili in India 6

1.2.2 Matteo Ricci in China 6

2. Vietnamese Catholicism and the integration process 8

2.1 The process of evangelization and development of Catholicism in Vietnam 8

2.2 The process of integrating Catholicism with Vietnamese culture 10

2.2.1 The bridge of cultural exchange between Western and Vietnamese cultures 10

2.2.2 Catholicism integrates into Vietnamese culture 13

2.2.3 Priests have active activities to integrate Vietnamese culture A Lich Son Dac Lo 19

2.2.4 Specific manifestations of Catholic ritual integration in Vietnamese culture 22

Chapter 1 Summary 28

CHAPTER 2: CATHOLIC FESTIVALS 29

1. The liturgical year and the Catholic calendar 29

1.1 Liturgical Year 29

1.2 Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials 30

1.2.1 Solemnities (major ceremonies) 30

1.2.1.2 Christmas 33

1.2.2 Feast Day 34

1.2.3 Memorial Day 34

1.3 Holy Week 34

1.4 The liturgical year cycle (also known as the liturgical season). 36

1.4.1 Easter Season 36

1.4.2 Lent 36

1.4.3 Christmas Season 36

1.4.4 Advent 37

1.4.5 Ordinary Time 37

2. Rituals commonly performed during Catholic festivals 37

2.1 Singing the Bible, reading books and praying 37

2.1.1 Singing the Bible 37

2.1.2 Reading books and reciting scriptures 38

2.2 Dance and flower offering 39

2.3 Ritual in Catholic festivals 41

2.3.1 New Year's Eve Ceremony 42

2.3.2 Flower cells 42

2.4 Rituals of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in Catholic festivals 43

2.4.1 Week 43

2.4.2 Santi Procession (Blessed Body Procession) 44

3. Some famous Catholic festivals in some localities 46

3.1 Commemoration of the patron saint of the diocese in Phu Nhai parish (Nam Dinh). 46

3.2 The procession of the martyrs of Dong Tri parish 49

3.3 La Vang Mass Festival Quang Tri 50

Chapter 2 Summary 57

CHAPTER 3: ORIENTATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CATHOLIC FESTIVAL TOURISM 58

3.1 Reality of exploiting Catholic festivals in the world and Vietnam 58

3.1.1 Reality of exploiting Catholic festivals in the world 58

3.1.2 Reality of exploiting Catholic festivals in Vietnam 62

3.2 Some major Catholic festivals in the world 68

3.2.1 The world's largest Marian festival in Brazil 68

3.2.2 Pilgrimage to Sydney 69

3.2.3 Easter in France 71

3.3 Orientation of exploiting Catholic festivals 73

3.3.1 Building infrastructure and staff to serve the exploitation of Catholic festivals... 73 3.3.2 Identifying potential customers 74

3.3.3 Building tourist attractions that exploit Catholic festivals 75

3.3.4 Develop some Catholic festival tourism programs. Phat Diem Christmas tourism program (2 days 1 night from December 24 to December 25) 77

Summary of chapter 3 81

CONCLUSION 82

Reference 85

Catholic festivals in Vietnam and tourism development orientations - 11

Comment