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The Church’s penitential practice has been changing over the centuries and it assumed various forms. One of the interesting issues in this field is showing the attitudes assumed by the clergy and the faithful towards the Eucharist, and presenting the misuses that they could commit. The misuses concerned both the conditions one had to meet in order to properly celebrate the Holy Mass, the very celebration,...
Jacob is the son of Isaac and Rebekah. In his attitudes and acts he is not irreproachable, righteous and transparent, but all the same it is with him that God creates history! Already when he was being born he grasped his brother Esau by his heel. Using a trick he bought the birthright and his father’s blessing. So he has to escape. In Laban’s home he marries Leah and Rachel who give birth to his...
Half a century ago Pius XII carried out a reform of the Paschal Triduum. Despite the reprimands in the Circular Letter Paschalis solemnitatis of 1988 the pastoral practice often ignores the spirit of this reform and the liturgical regulations. The present article explains certain elements of the history that justify theologically the present form of the Triduum liturgy. The problem of changes in the...
The subject of the article is analysis of the rites of confirmation in several sacramentaries and pontificals of the Roman rite from the period between the 8th and the middle of the 10th centuries. During that time the short Roman rite of confirmation, consisting up till then of three basic ritual elements (epicletic prayer, application of chrism to the forehead, the sign of peace) is gradually enriched...
Expressing oneself before God through singing religious songs has been characteristic of people of all cultures and nationalities since time immemorial. It seems that this is particularly the case with those who have been singing to praise Christ the Lord since the dawn of Christianity. This paper presents various definitions of a religious song as well as its types, sources and ways in which it developed...
In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council reform, from the treasury of the liturgical tradition the medieval papal rite Resurrexit has been restored; it had been once celebrated in the Sancta Sanctorum private chapel at the Lateran in front of the Acheropìta icon. The rite, with its rich symbols, was introduced again into the papal liturgy in the Jubilee Year 2000 and has been celebrated up till...
The day and time of preaching in Church were set by biblical, pastoral, economic and political reasons. The privileged day for preaching has always been Sunday—the day on which Jesus Christ was resurrected and sent on the Apostles the Holy Spirit. Except for Sunday, sermons should be also given on important Church holidays, especially connected with the lives of Christ, the God’s Mother and some saints...
One of the problems resulting directly from the definition of liturgy is the relation between cult and sanctification. It is connected with the double subject of liturgy, that is Christ who is present in it, and the believers who participate in it. In Christ’s activity in liturgy priority of the cultic dimension may be seen, from which sanctification of man follows. Hence in this case cult is the...
The 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (10-17 June 2012) referred to the most important dimension and aim of the Eucharist, that is building people’s communion with God via Christ in the Holy Spirit, and with one another in God. As its main goal it chose showing the outline of these issues mainly on the basis of selected documents of the Church from the period of John Paul II’s and...
Nauczanie Benedykta XVI podczas udzielania święceń prezbiteratu czy innych okazji potwierdza teologiczną prawdę o centralnym miejscu gestu nałożenia rąk i modlitwy w obrzędach święceń. Papież akcentuje fakt całkowitego włączenia prezbitera w Chrystusa i Jego życie. Niesie to za sobą udział w misji, jaką Jezus powierzył apostołom. Przez sakrament święceń prezbiter zostaje namaszczony, konsekrowany,...
Zawarte w artykule zestawienie powszechnie znanych utworów literatury polskiej pokazuje, że kult Matki Bożej jest ważnym i często wykorzystywanym motywem. Literatura przedmiotu traktująca o motywach maryjnych w literaturze polskiej jest niezwykle bogata. Syntetyczny charakter niniejszej publikacji nie pozwala na szczegółowe rozważania tej kwestii. Kult maryjny odcisnął swe piętno na twórczości polskich...
The rite of religious profession in the tradition of the Latin Church has changed through ages, developing rich liturgical forms that served to highlight the importance of the act of initiation of new members into the monastic community. One of the oldest testimonies of this rite in the Latin Church is the Rule of St. Benedict, which predicts that the vows be made in the oratorium. Since the Middle...
Odwołując się do skarbca kościelnej tradycji, Sobór Watykański II podjął proces reformy liturgii i korektę tekstów kultowych, by nadać im charakter orędzia, wzywającego uczniów Chrystusa do ożywienia wiary oraz pobudzającego ich moc chrześcijańskiego ducha, która gwarantuje większą owocność uczestnictwa w sprawowaniu kapłańskiej posługi Kościoła. Teksty liturgiczne i święte obrzędy inspirują modlitwę...
Św. Józef Sebastian Pelczar (1842-1924), biskup diecezji przemyskiej w latach 1899-1924, troszczył się o uświęcenie siebie i wszystkich wiernych. Był gorliwym apostołem kultu Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa. Widział w nim skuteczny środek do osiągnięcia świętości. Szczególnie zalecał ten kult kapłanom. Oni są przewodnikami na drodze uświęcenia Ludu Bożego. Ta łaska i zadanie, jakie otrzymali od Boga,...
Pośród zainteresowań naukowych ks. prof. Jerzego Józefa Kopcia CP szczególne miejsce zajęły badania dotyczące recepcji przez młodzież posoborowej odnowy liturgii. Na podstawie opracowanych przez siebie kwestionariuszy stworzył projekt badawczy, który za pomocą wystandaryzowanych narzędzi pozwalał na eksplorację zagadnień związanych z formacją liturgiczną. Odwołując się do metody paradygmatu liturgicznego,...
Przepowiadanie słowa Bożego należy do podstawowych zadań Kościoła. Benedykt XVI w posynodalnej adhortacji apostolskiej Verbum Domini przypomniał: „Homilia uaktualnia przesłanie Pisma świętego, ażeby wierni mogli odkryć obecność i skuteczność słowa Bożego w swoim codziennym życiu” (59). Źródło przepowiadania, jakim jest Pismo święte, jest konieczne, aby czerpać w obfitości ze stołu Bożego słowa. Bogactwo...
Tak liturgia, jak też pobożność ludowa związane są nierozłącznie z wielością obrzędów, zwyczajów i wierzeń. Są one specyficznym wyrazem religijności i wiary, pielęgnowanym często przez całe lata. Obok wymiaru religijnego stanowią one ważny przejaw kultury danego narodu czy konkretnej społeczności. Obserwowany zanik zwyczajów i obrzędów religijnych wymusza niejako konieczność ich zbadania i utrwalenia...
Brothers of the newly emerged Congregation of the Resurrection played a significant role in the development of the 19th century Liturgical Movement. Of great importance to its progression was the contribution of father Piotr Semenenko, Józef Hube, Wincenty Barzyński and Franciszek Gordon. They were far from being merely theorists of the new concepts of bringing the liturgy closer to the faithful,...
This article discusses the life and legacy of the Basilian Father George John Bazylovitch (1742-1821). He is one of the most outstanding Basilians in the history of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve. He was provincial superior of seven Basilian monasteries within the timespan of thirty two years. Bazylowitch paid special attention to the formation and spiritual life of the monks, wishing...
The Church defines politics as service for the good of man and mankind. The goal is to integrate the teleological dimension of the lives of individuals, as assigned to them by God, within the functioning of mankind as a whole, as well as the teleological dimension of community life in relation to mankind as a whole. The Church also adds that care for common good cannot preclude exerting influence...
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