I was there as a young student at the mass marking his final vows. Out of an almost filial duty to honor "the best among us," I attended the mass celebrating 60 years of religious life and 50 years of priesthood for Fulgence Rabeony. It was in 1966 that the now Emeritus Monsignor, 81 years old, entered the Jesuit novitiate. His priestly ordination took place on August 7, 1976, after a long journey spanning ten years from the novitiate through the subsequent stages of "philosophy," "regency," and "theology." Fulgence Rabeony was appointed bishop on November 18, 1990, shortly after his nomination to lead the diocese of Tuléar, which was elevated to an ecclesiastical province on December 3, 2003, with the suffragan dioceses of Morombe, Morondava, and Tôlagnaro. As the first metropolitan archbishop of Tuléar, Fulgence Rabeony served until July 22, 2023, when he was admitted to retirement. Returning on pilgrimage to the place where he received his vestments with stole and chasuble; the deeply symbolic moment of the imposition of hands on the ordinand's head, knowing that the bishop is the ordainer; the anointing of hands with holy chrism before they become worthy to receive the paten and chalice. Certainly, Monsignor would have preferred the commemorative mass to take place in the honor courtyard of the College that had recognized him as "Top of the Class of 1966" before hosting his final vows mass, but it is not every day that the beautiful chapel (blessed by Mgr Étienne Fourcadier on May 8, 1937) of Collège Saint-Michel sees three "Monsignors" with mitres concealing the violet skullcap. The Chinese rite controversy had already pitted the Jesuits against the Papacy in the 17th century. This time, in the context of Vatican II Council (1962-1965), it was a survivor of the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, the Jesuit Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991), Superior General of the Society of Jesus (from May 22, 1965 until his cerebral thrombosis on August 7, 1981), who introduced the term "inculturation." That immutable dogma persists is only logical for the Church with itself, but that cosmetic adjustments, seemingly superficial, end up deeply disturbing those who grew up with a less "dancing," "less jazzy," "less swing" liturgy—in short, a more austere, sober, and solemn one—should raise questions about the scope of "awareness of the other" and the limits of "alterity of the recipient." Should poor sound quality transform a homily into incomprehensible prayers or instrumental music drown out the choir, this question will not remain merely acoustic. Ignace Ramarosandratana (1893-1957), the first Malagasy bishop and a College alumnus who served as spiritual father since 1931, received episcopal consecration on October 29, 1939, before taking charge of the new Apostolic Vicariate of Miarinarivo. Another College alumnus, Armand Gaëtan Razafindratandra (1925-2010), bishop of Majunga and archbishop of Antananarivo, received the cardinal's purple in November 1994. Fulgence Rabeony will remain, for some time to come, the last College alumnus to hold episcopal dignity. Nasolo-Valiavo Andriamihaja