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Because of the richness of Lukan theology regarding witness, the author was unable to cover all of its aspects. Thus the study touches only upon its major threads. Besides the obvious issues of the apostles role as witnesses, the content of their witnessing, and its recipients – the study presents some other personalities involved in transmitting the Good News of God’s salvation to humanity. Indeed, the greatest stress is placed on the testimony of God himself. Despite being a constant Mystery for humankind, He never ceases being involved in their history and witnessing to his salvific plans. Although there are only a few texts within Acts that connect the persons of the Trinity to witnessing, one should consider them as fundamental to a full Lukan theology of witness.
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This article presents an outline of the history of shaping communio chants (one of the Proprium Missae chants for Communion): from Christian antiquity (Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Apostolic Constitutions), through the Middle Ages (Ordo Romanus Primus), the post-Tridentine period (Communiones totius anni by Mikołaj Zieleński), to the reform of the Second Vatican Council, to which we owe the collection of antiphonae ad communionem (Graduale romanum, Graduale Simplex, Missale romanum, Ordo Cantus Missae) in liturgical books, and indirectly also contemporary chants and songs intended for the communionprocession.
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The article presents the program of sexual education prepared and offered by Krakow Branch of the Planned Parenthood Association in the wider context of socio-political situation in Krakow (1956 – 1989). Since the beginning of the Association’s existence, the special attention was paid to the development of educational program, which concerned the different aspects of „family life“. The article is going to answer the questions about its goals, the educational tools used to achieve them and its social targets. To accurately determine the position of the Association in the city‘s community I will analyse its foundation and activities in wider context of the pre-war traditions of the organisation and the activities regarding premarital counselling undertaken by the Krakow Catholic Church.
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At the turn of the 17th century in the royal town of Wschowa lived and worked the famous Lutheran pastor Valerius Herberger, called "little Luther". considering his eager preaching, pastoral activity and outstanding theological works.
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Zawarte w tytule referatu określenie „mowa serca” jest odwołaniem się do metafory serca. Jest to także wyraz uznania, jakie mam dla księży sercanów jako gorliwych głosicieli słowa Bożego, zwłaszcza w formie misji i rekolekcji parafialnych. Ów niewątpliwie nieco kurtuazyjny zabieg posiada również głębsze, retoryczno-homiletyczne uzasadnienie. Dlatego też temat referatu wymaga obszerniejszego wyjaśnienia.
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This article presents the papal theology of the body within the scope which concerns the sacramental grace given to a man and a woman in the marriage. This grace, in a special way, concerns relationships created by a man because it is they that were deprived of the basic dimension of the unselfish gift by original sin. This gift was given to a man by the Creator and on the basis of this gift the man had to share himself with another human being. The incarnation of the Son of God was God's response to the mistrust that undermined the communion of God with a man, together with the essential human communion, that is, the marriage. Through the sacraments we have access to the fruits of the Passover of Christ. In the sacrament of marriage these fruits enable people to enter again into a dimension of the selfless gift of the self given to another person.
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The article presents the phenomenon of “reversed” interpretation of Jozaphat Kuntsevych's martyrdom in the writings of a Uniate hierarch, Iosif Semashko. The article conducts an analysis of epistemologically understood metaphors created by him before and after his conversion to Orthodoxy.
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Teza Rogera Penrose’a o nieobliczalnym (niealgorytmicznym) charakterze ludzkiej świadomości (umysłu), będąca argumentem przeciwko możliwości stworzenia sztucznej inteligencji, może przyczynić się do wzmocnienia poczucia tajemniczości świata. Niezależnie od naszego stosunku do platonizmu matematycznego(zakładającego istnienie obiektywnych pozaczasowych bytów matematycznych)filozoficzna refleksja brytyjskiego kosmologa stanowi impuls do rozwijania współczesnej teologii w twórczym dialogu z naukami, kierującym się zasadą krytycznej otwartości i wzajemnej dynamicznej wymiany osiągnięć poznawczych.
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The author of the article answers the question: What do we mean by one’s inability to receive fruitfully the sacrament of Confirmation? It is a lack of the conditions necessary to multiply graces associated with a particular sacrament. It is a kind of resistance to the use of all the gifts that are connected with the reception of the sacrament. This inability causes one to become a person who wastes the power given by the Lord. The author then discusses the reasons for this inability and simultaneously shows the factors which can enhance a human being’s fruitful reception of the sacraments, especially of the sacrament of Confirmation. Among the factors of inability, the author includes: netoholism, phonoholism (addiction to the internet and the cell phone), defamilization (the undoing of the family), “irresponsibilism”, epidermal (superficial) religiosity, psychocide and spiritocide (the killing of the psyche and the spirit), intrusiveness of global trends and the lack of pastoral creativity for today’s youth. The author also reveals factors which can promote the ability of teenagers to make the sacrament of Confirmation effectively: the multiplicity of methods of evangelization, modern affirmation of integral development, “plasticity” of personality, the desire for community resulting from development, the longing for the sacred and the search for a way to live.
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As a liturgical and music book, the pontifical reflects the temporal transformations and so allows us to become acquainted with the register of episcopal functions connected with celebrating the sacraments and sacramentals. The object of the study is a detailed list of strictly musical content of the 12thcentury Pontificale Plocense (Płock Pontifical). The musical layer of this code was revealed through the gleaning of texts accompanied with a melody (over 200 text pieces with added melodies). Sometimes these are single words, incipits, psalm differentiation, and sometimes the musical notation covers the entire liturgical content of the work. Dominated by the cheironomic record of the melody, the manuscript seems to confirm its foreign origin. This notation is especially consistent in the case of the Preface melody. Therefore, it could be argued that the cheironomic record of Pontificale Plocense was imported from a foreign centre.
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His Beatitude Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, underlines the main characteristics of „2019 – The Solemn Year of the Romanian Village (of priests, teachers and diligent mayors) and the Commemorative Year of Patriarchs Nicodim Munteanu and Iustin Moisescu, and of the translators of church books in the Romanian Patriarchate”.
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Raising children and young people in the Christian spirit is a special challenge, especially in contemporary society, where the Christian family lives in a secularized and spiritually confusing world, facing trials such as poverty, unemployment, alcohol, infidelity, divorce, migration etc. In 2020, "Commemorative Year of the Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists", the Romanian Orthodox Church aims to identify and promote the example of those who, over time, have supported spiritually and materially the social-philanthropic activity of the Church, as well as highlighting the role of Christian philanthropy as a main coordinate of the cultural and social activity of the Church.
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The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church proclaimed 2021 The Solemn Year of pastoral care of Romanians abroad, Commemorative Year of the reposed in the Lord. The two themes, homage and commemorative, highlights two essential coordinates, priority in the life and pastoral-missionary activity of our Church.
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In the last academic year (2017/2018), the Institute of Musicology of The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin celebrated an important Jubilee. After the Cecilia celebrations connected with the 60th anniversary of the existence of the unit (November 2016), it was the turn to commemorate the half-century of the students scientific movement.This sketch is a contribution to the analysis on the activity of students of Lublin musicology and their participation in the development of scientific research in various fields of religious music.
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The doctrine of justification is the core element of the Reformation in the 16. century. The article hints to the origin of this doctrine and gives an interpretation of individual aspects for our time. Luther articulated own for the medieval times typical fears, which were connected to the power of the Church. He put against it the grace of God, who justifies the sinner out of faith without works of the law. The doctrine of justification nowadays does not split Christian churches any longer. Secular thinking, die huge variety of religions and immense social injustices seems to contradict a meaningful understanding of God and the doctrine of justification as well. But this doctrine is obviously related to and based on fundamental aspects of human life. And the Christian faith offers a world-view, which tolerates the ambivalences and encourages to life. Forgiveness and acception between human beings and of a person to herself or himself are experiences, which are integrated in the Christian tradition of the doctrine of justification. Its individualistic restriction and abstract interpretation have been heavily criticised. If the social aspects are also unconsidered, the justification can strengthen human beings and enhance solidarity.
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The doctrine of justification is the core element of the Reformation in the 16. century. The article gives added to the previous interpretation of the individual dimension now reflections on the social and global aspects of the doctrine of justification. It can be ethically and ecclesiogically a starting point for the awareness and the work on social injustice, exploitation and humiliation of persons, groups and nature. Christian congregations could be an important factor in transmitting it by its committed life and preaching. The social-philosophic theory acknowledgement can be a tool for an explication of the doctrine of justification in its social aspects. An also global interpretation in an understandable way can facilitate a mutual awareness, understanding and common solidary actions in secular, inter-confessional and inter-religious contexts in order to improve justice, freedom and the integrity of creation.
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