About Vietnamese Catholic Lunar New Year
Vietnamese Catholics observance of Tết or Lunar New Year represents a unique synthesis of Catholic liturgical practice and traditional Vietnamese culture. Rooted in centuries of negotiation between faith and local custom, these celebrations reflect the Church’s adaptation following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). Historically, Catholics in Vietnam were discouraged from engaging in ancestral rites and folk customs, but the Vatican’s recognition in 1965 of their cultural value allowed such practices to be harmonized with Catholic theology. By the early 1990s, official litu.
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