Terapeutyczna rola benignitas pastoralis
Therapeutic Role of Benignitas Pastoralis

Summary/Abstract: In modern times, a therapeutic culture is promoted in which people express their resistance toward all forms of suffering and pain and make many efforts in order to stay healthy and well. All this is a challenge for the Church, whose task is to use the therapeutic potential of the Christian faith and help them in leading a healthy life. It becomes possible when a person is able to integrate in her life all states – illness, death, wrong decisions and failings. In this action of supportive believers, God himself supports them how to serve people who are sick in body and soul, descending towards them with his foregoing love. God’s action, filled with care for the weak and needy and with graciousness towards sinners, is a model for pastors who are called to carry out their ministry in the spirit of benignitas pastoralis. Then, compassion, solidary closeness and God’s tenderness are communicated to people in the interpersonal relationships they establish in their pastoral activity. Pastoral meekness practiced in this way leads people seeking health to accept their fragility and sinfulness, to unite with God and to draw strength from it to overcome their weaknesses and spiritual hurts.

• Details
• Contents