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mano -> RE: How do I know what version of WIPAE that I have? (12/29/2009 8:45:58 AM)
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Jibang is a paper tablet on which a dead family member's name is written. It is a traditional belief that the person's soul enters the world of the dead as the smoke of the burning paper disappears. The traditional ancestral rite involves bowing and burning incense and jibang before the ancestral altar. Kim conducted the rite for his mother March 9 according to what he had heard from other parishioners, that jibang is not allowed in a Catholic ritual. Since his Baptism, Kim said, he has followed what he thought was the "Catholic way" of practicing the ancestor commemoration ritual. His mother died in 2005. Kim told UCA News that he did not place his mother's picture or a jibang on the ancestral altar because he worried that if he did, it might not be the Catholic way. "I don't know much about the Catholic Church's teaching on the rite or how to do it exactly," he added. According to Rite for the Ancestor, an appendix to the Funeral Ceremony published in 2003 by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea, the Church allows a wipae, or wooden tablet, and the ancestor's picture for such rites. Jibang is the paper version of wipae.
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