KATEHETSKO DJELOVANJE SVEĆENIKA U HRVATSKOJ NA TEMELJU UDŽBENIKA PASTORALNE TEOLOGIJE OD POLOVICE 19. STOLJEĆA DO DRUGOGA VATIKANSKOG SABORA
CATECHETIC WORK OF CROATIAN PRIESTS ACCORDING TO TEXTBOOKS ON PASTORAL THEOLOGY FROM 1950 TO THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL

Summary/Abstract: Pastoral textbooks used by pre-Vatican II priests show, beyond any doubt, that, in their pastoral work, priests had a great appreciation for catechetic teaching. In accordance with the pre-Council theological individualism of salvation, a priest defines catechetic teaching as a clever way of giving students the opportunity to adopt, through their catechist, what is necessary for their salvation. Teaching in faith was imprinted in the habitus of a pre-Council priest as his principal task, which he sees as a lasting continuation of Jesus’ ministry of teaching in the Church, in the form of his mediating role of the ‘alter Christus’. Jesus Christ was the foremost subject of catechetic teaching for children and adults, the complete content of the Revelation as it had been published in the Holy Scripture and the tradition, and believed according to the doctrine of the Church. Orthodoxy was to be preserved in the process by all means. Priest-catechist was aware of the fact that the future generation of the faithful and the fruitful receiving of the sacraments depended on the quality, systematic and methodological catechetisation. Education was not the only purpose of catechization, but also the promptness of the catechized to do good.

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