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In the introductory part of the article the author explains what formation is, what Mary’s rolein the Church is and what the methods of the spiritual formation in Skrzatusz were in years1972-2013. In the following part the author carries out the theological and spiritual formationanalysis handed down by bishop I. Jeż in the pastoral letters Homiletic Materials before OurLady coronation in Skrzatusz and in the sermons and homilies preached during the celebrationsin Skrzatusz sanctuary. In the last part of the article the author summarizes and draws a conclusionon the basis of the conducted texts analysis.
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The article discusses the annual diocesan meetings of young people in the sanctuary of OurLady of Sorrows in Skrzatusz, which for several years is the biggest pastoral event in the dioceseof Koszalin-Kolobrzeg. It is an attempt to synthetic description of the event, while at thesame time form of reports, evaluations and attempt to relate it to the whole cultural and pastoralchallenges that flow from the world of young people. In this perspective, despite the need forfurther analysis and adjustments, this meeting is certainly a moment of evangelization of youngpeople and the Christian response to their various problems.
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The article points out that, according to Karol Wojtyła, a substantial spiritual soul is the essence of each man. It is the principle of his life and all of his acts. A substantial spiritual soul makes each man a person. The spiritual substance is the source of the immaterial, essentially personal, accidental beings such as cognition and free will. The substantial spirituality of the human soul is the guarantee of the essentially personal dimension of man-person, namely his vertical transcendence. Vertical transcendence, in turn, enables person’s ontic and moral integration. The authoress also mentions several dire consequences of removing a really existing substantial spiritual soul from the modern philosophical anthropology. Here are some of those consequences: the culture of death, discrimination of those who do not show any visible signs of consciousness or self-governance, losing freedom and being a slave to relational accidental beings such as society and socio-economic processes, removal of the objective truth from the realm of inner life, degradation of the human body treated as a purely material organism, clinging to the senses and the visible, even in religious experiences. etc.
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The present study presents the theme of the beauty of conjugal love on the basis of the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis Amoris laetitia. We note that modern secularized world distorts the notion of love, leading to serious disruptions in the functioning of marriage and the family. Pope Francis strives above all to show the positive side of conjugal love. Spouses in everyday simple and ordinary gestures reveal the love that Christ loves his Church. Love is born of a look at the other person, which provokes admiration and taste in the precious value of another person. Love lets you see a loved one as a person. Joy of love renews and grows after a shared experience of suffering, effort and struggle. The common married way is to go through the various stages of the development of love that require „generous gift of self” (AL 220). Pope Francis reminds us that love needs time that the spouses must find at their disposal. Love grows in spite of limitations and imperfections through sacrificial effort and sacrifice. Young people should dare to conclude an inseparable marriage that provides protection and a tool for the development of love. Conjugal love is also characterized by feelings of pleasure and sexual passion. Pope Francis in teaching about the importance of human sexuality goes behind St. John Paul II, his predecessor. The church rejects sexual and erotic perversion but does not disregard sexuality itself nor disdains it. Marriage crisis are part of the dramatic beauty of conjugal love. The Church through priests and prepared persons can spiritually accompany the spouses in crisis so that they find and renew the original love that has brought them into a single union.
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The debates concerning the problem of termination of pregnancy are currently concentrated upon the question of its decency, namely, on its ethical aspect and on the issue of the acceptance by positive law, that is on legislative aspect. The adversaries of termination of pregnancy refer to arguments which – as it seems – should meet with universal approval and by the same token should have influence on decisions and general morality. However, it appears to be quite self-evident that these arguments are still not known enough or they are simply rejected. For the understanding of this, rather paradoxical, situation it is necessary to analyse the historical and cultural origins of abortionism which affects considerably the point of view of the proponents of termination of pregnancy and which today has massive influence on the public perception of the problem and on its oversimplified ethical assessment. Therefore, only the profound understanding of the on-going events, all the more their reasons will make it possible to take more adequate steps towards the defence of life from its beginning, which manifests itself as the fundamental requirement of the defence of a civilisation of love as opposed to the obtrusive and ostentatious culture of death.
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Owning to the 2014 and 2015 Synods of Bishops a question has been raised and discussed in a society about admitting the divorced and remarried people to Holy Communion. This question, in fact, pertains to the teaching of the Church on the indissolubility of marriage. John Paul II responding to the crisis caused by the “plague of divorces” showed God’s plan for marriage and family. He claimed that the conversation between Christ and the Pharisees (Mt 19:1–9) was the source of the moral norm about the indissolubility of a marital bond in which Jesus not only confirmed the norm but also reffered to the biblical “beginning”. Following Christ’s teaching, the Pope consequently developed his anthropology based on the account of creation. The foundation of his view on human being is the conciliar teaching that man “cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself” (Gaudium et spes, 24). Marriage is a communion of persons (communio personarum) based on the total and sincere gift of self which demands the indissolubility of the bond. Moreover, the institution of marriage is oriented towards its sacramental fulfilment in Christ. As a sacrament, marriage participates and expresses the unbreakable bond between Christ and the Church. John Paul II was a firm defender of marriage indissolubility who drew his teaching on these two premises, anthropological and sacramental.
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There is a connection between God’s self-revelation and the revelation of the truths of faith. They remain mutually related (nexus mysteriorum) and arranged around the centre of the Christian faith (hierarchia veritatum). The article shows how the “hierarchy” of the truths of faith should contribute to a better understanding of all mysteries. While taking into account this hierarchy one must not marginalize other revealed truths of faith. The sense of faith (sensus fidei) helps to consider not only a net of mysteries as a whole but also particular mysteries of faith within it, as well as their correlation with Christ who is in the centre.
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