4. Who can take on the task of inculturation?

It seems evident that only a person in possession of his own culture can inculturate and integrate the Gospel. Anyone who belongs to one culture must admit that he cannot enter fully into another culture. Yet he can indicate the direction inculturation should take, he can will the process and render it possible. Within consecrated life, without imposing the style of another culture, the following of Christ must be allowed to mature in the mutual and fraternal respect of the differences so as to project together a true witness of the living Christ, according to the common charism granted by the Spirit. It would be an offense to another culture to soften and reduce the demands of consecrated life, as if certain cultures only could fully live it.