POTEŠKOĆE I MOGUĆNOSTI NAVJEŠTAJA BOŽJE RIJEČI U PRIGODNIM PROPOVIJEDIMA
DIFFICULTIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD OF GOD IN SPECIAL SERMONS

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the survey which covered 10% of parish priests of the Archdiocese of Đakovo and Osijek. It analyses the difficulties and possibilities of the sermons preached at christenings, marriages, last rites administered independently of the holy mass and funerals. The results point to the ‘current inability of the proclamation among the presbyters of the Archdiocese of Đakovo and Osijek. This inability is obvious in recurrent sermons which are not properly prepared by a presbyter-parish priest, due to the fact that he does not have enough time or is exhausted and burned out. The research shows the lack of pastoral sensibility for sermons made on special occasions, which are an excellent opportunity to spread the Word of God amongst the aloof, marginal believers, agnostics and atheists. The sermons for special occasions are not prepared at all by 78% of the parish priests, whereas 49% of them use some earlier prepared sermons, and 13% give impersonal and general sermons.

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