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The Liturgical year actualises the mystery of Christ. This follows from the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ, and at the same time from His mysterious being. Jesus Christ is the mysterium of God. In His, starting from the mysterium of incarnation, through particular mysteria of his life on earth up to the paschal mysterium, God saved humankind and revealed His unity in the Trinity. The mysterium...
Before a church is ready for liturgical purposes, it should be consecrated by a bishop. In Christian antiquity this rite consisted in bringing in the relics of a saint martyr and saying the first Holy Mass. In later centuries the rites of church's dedication were enriched by many new elements. A church, as a visible building, is a special sign of the People of God that is on its pilgrimage on earth...
This paper shows Mary as the pattern of participation in the Holy Mass. Mary as 'the Woman of the Eucharist' not only is present in the Liturgy and in liturgical texts (most often by way of mentioning), but her presence is mystical and spiritual. Thus Mary's example rears the participants of the Mass how to become the people of the Eucharist. Special formative moments are the following: Mary's attitude...
The preaching of Polish bishops on the manifestation of faith in St. Maximilian Kolbe embraces the whole of the question in the light of the Second Vatican Council. It shows how faith can be understood as a factor forming Christian life. In this sense Fr. Kolbe appears to be a personal pattern of the believer, who understands faith as a special encounter of grace and human effort. Faith of this kind...
This study presents the editorial process related with the distribution of the psalms in the post-councillor book of the Liturgy of the Hours. Study Group Three was responsible for these works. It was part of the Consilium ad exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgia. As a result several years of editorial work was resignation from the one and a half thousand-year-old tradition to quote the whole...
Presented problems of the culture of Sunday observance with the certainty are not only a Polish specificity, but entire Western civilization. From the theological and cultural point of view stand before us huge tasks, especially in this question: how to show to the modern man in secularized, global and pluralistic world the sense of Christian Sunday observance and other holidays?. The life of the...
The theology of signs, positions and gestures in the ceremony of the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament leads to Jesus Christ who comes to his people in the sign of the bread. On his presence indicate all liturgical signs of the ceremony of the exposition. The real presence of Eucharistic Christ leads the man to the adoration and the contemplation of the love of God who appears in simple and readable...
Sacraments of the Christian initiation constitute on one hand the origin of the Christian life and on the other hand the fullness of this life. It happens so, because Eucharist as the third sacrament of the Christian initiation is a source and summit of the Christian life. These sacraments are: the participation in the fullness of the life received in the baptism; the life of Holy Spirit who is present...
Essential element of the ministry of the sick is the sacramental service. The sacrament of the penance and reconciliation, the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, Holy Communion and the celebration of Eucharist are the top-forms of the care about ill people. In this sacraments they experience in a special way the love and the closeness of God. Eucharist in which becomes a reality for all generations,...
This paper seeks to answer the question about the basic formation of a candidate for baptism. This formation is supposed to drive him away from non-Christian customs and change his lifestyle. The point is whether it might lead to isolation from apostolical commitment in the world. Is the experience of receiving someone into the fellowship of brothers and sisters that obtain salvation concentrated...
The Liturgy is a community between God and man. During a liturgical celebration, man experiences an encounter with the Person of Christ. It is a personal encounter, that is, a real encounter. The Liturgy makes present the whole Person of Christ, His life, words and acts. It makes present the history of salvation, in particular the Paschal Mystery of Christ, that is His passion, death, funeral, resurrection,...
This paper, in its theoretical part, depicts some questions contained in the Program Katechezy Parafialnej Mlodziezy Szkól Ponadgimnazjalnych ('Programme of Parochial Catechesis for Secondary School Students'). They should be discussed at parochial catecheses (1). It also stresses the significance of liturgical celebrations in the catechesis (2). In its practical part (3) it provides concrete liturgical...
The entire ceremony, though is the Mass of the Lord's Supper, emphasizes more on blessings of three oils than on the thought about Cenacle. The theme of the Last Supper is present through biblical readings and formulas of the Canon, and also antiphons to psalms in vespers. The ceremonies of blessings dominate over the course of the entire liturgy. In this, what concerns ceremonies of the blessing...
Public theology, which first appeared in the United States of America at the end of the 20th century, presents a certain challenge also for the liturgy. In this article the author addresses the 'diaconisation' of the liturgy, pointing to the reasons, which authorize for the use in the liturgy aspects of public theology, which emphasize the characteristic elements of the liturgy, as a rich cultural...
Various milieus have shown concern about the need and necessity to renew homiletic preaching. Benedict XVI has marked this important problem for the contemporary Church when he reminded us: 'In view of the significance of the word of God it is necessary to improve the quality of homilies.' One way to renew preaching may consist in introducing some elements of literature. The sphere of sacrum is the...
The Christian tradition and Liturgy have combined the term mysterium with the event of Jesus Christ. The very concept of mysterium is fairly often translated into Polish as 'tajemnica' ('secret,') therefore it may be taken to mean as some mysterious knowledge, a fact that in relation to Jesus could denote only His teaching not accessible and understandable to all. With this understanding of the term...
This paper shows the activity of Bishop Marian Fulman as a promoter of the Liturgy and various forms of popular piety. He was appointed Bishop of Lublin in 1918. Bishop Fulman reorganized the network of deaneries and parishes. He erected seven new deaneries and eighty six parishes. Through his legal and pastoral activity he contributed to organization and development of the ministry to God. He introduced...
The Second Vatican Council in the Constitution of the Liturgy shall proceed with the reform of the liturgical year, which means the prior calendar reform. In 1969, before the publication of the new Breviary and Missal, pope Paul VI promulgated the General Roman Calendar, reformed pursuant to the decrees of Vatican II. For this study group, which was assigned the task of revising it, was placed at...
Polish catechists reject two opposing attitudes as follows: the first assumption suggesting, that persons with intellectual disability should achieve the same level of awareness and knowledge, as other fit and able baptised persons; the second assumption suggesting, that it is not at all possible to catechise persons with intellectual disability. The primary assumption of the concept of catechesis...
This paper consists of three parts. In the first part the Holy Scripture and Tradition are presented as one source of Revelation, in the second part they are shown in the life of the Church, and in the third part as the first source for preaching. The latter question brings forth both the Church's clear statements on it (as contained in the definition of homily and sermon, in their structure and purpose),...
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