Koronacja nowego obrazu Matki Boskiej Szkaplerznej w Berdyczowie na Ukrainie

Author(s): Józef Benignus Wanat / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 1/2000

Treścią artykułu jest koronacja nowego obrazu Matki Boskiej Szkaplerznej w Berdyczowie na Ukrainie. Po 65 latach nieobecności karmelici bosi ponownie objęli 15 XI 1991 r. w posiadanie sławne niegdyś sanktuarium Matki Boskiej Berdyczowskiej.//This article concerns the coronation of a new painting of Our Lady of the Scapular in Berdychiv (Ukraine). After 65 years of absence, the once famous Sanctuary of Our Lady of Berdychiv was returned to the possession of discalded Carmelites on 15th November 1991.

Prawda o człowieku i jego historii w kręgu kultury antycznej

Author(s): Stanisław Sojka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Kultura antyczna, której świadectwem są arcydzieła rąk i umysłów starożytnych Greków i Rzymian, fascynuje ludzkość z uwagi na jej otwartość, a także na trwałe i niezmienne treści istniejące w człowieku jako twórcy tej kultury. Humanitas starożytnych Greków i Rzymian przejawia się w poetyckich eposach, religijnych misteriach, filozoficznych traktatach oraz w malarstwie i architekturze. Wartości, takie jak prawda, dobro, piękno i miłość oraz otwartość na nie, nadają sens ludzkiej egzystencji i historii, która ostateczne swoje dopełnienie odnajduje w Chrystusie, w którym „apparuit benignitas et humanitas Salvatoris nostri Dei” (Tt 3, 4). The culture of ancient Greeks and Romans, expressed in the masterpieces of their hands and minds, fascinates mankind because of its openness as well as permanent and unchangeable values existing in a man as a creator of this culture. Humanitas of the ancient Greeks and Romans is manifested in poetic epics, religious mysteries, philosophical treatises and in painting and architecture. Values such as truth, goodness, beauty and love and openness to them, give a meaning to human existence and history, which finds its final fulfilment in Christ, in which “apparuit benignitas et humanitas Salvatoris nostri Dei” (Titus 3, 4).

Krytyka nowożytnej postaci chrześcijaństwa zachodniego z perspektywy tradycjonalizmu integralnego

Author(s): Bogumił Chmiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

Przedmiotem niniejszej pracy jest krytyka nowożytnych form chrześcijaństwa zachodniego sformułowana przez głównych przedstawicieli tradycjonalizmu integralnego. Celem pracy jest wskazanie najważniejszych zarzutów ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem ich metodologicznego tła. Za podstawową przyczynę degeneracji nowożytnej kultury i religii uznano renesansowy humanizm tożsamy z antropocentryzmem i indywidualizmem. Skutkiem takiej zmiany perspektywy był upadek tradycyjnej metafizyki pojmującej człowieka w kontekście hierarchicznie uporządkowanego świata, będącego przejawem boskiego ładu, którego człowiek był częścią. W kontekście religijnym efektem przeniesienia akcentów z wszechświata na człowieka jest sentymentalizm, moralizm i synkretyzm religijny, które swój najpełniejszy wyraz znalazły w protestantyzmie. The purpose of this paper is to examine main objection against modern form of western christianity formulated by representatives of Traditionalist School (R. Guénon, F. Schuon, A. K. Coomaraswamy). According to traditionalist’s point of view degeneration of contemporary culture was caused by metaphysical shift toward humanism, individualism and anthropocentrism, which began XIV century and gradually destroyed whole hierarchical and theocentrical culture. In case of religion this revolution led to sentimentalism, moralism, and religious syncretism. These attitudes realised by Reformation spoiled not only modern theology but whole religious world view.

FROM RUS’ TRADE TO CRUSADE: ST OLAF’S CHURCHES IN THE EASTERN BALTIC SEA REGION

Author(s): Kersti Markus / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2017

This article discusses the use of the cult of the Holy King in the context of the Baltic Crusades at the end of the 12th century and in the early 13th century. The analysis is based on the account of the miracle of St Olaf performed in Estonia, the story of the King’s visit to the island of Gotland reflected by Gutasagan and the spatial relation of St Olaf’s churches to the landscape. It also discusses three Danish sources which have previously not received attention from historians dealing with the Baltic Crusades, but which actually can change our understanding of the history of the Baltic Sea region and the foundation of the town Reval as well. Particular focus will be placed on the commercial interest of the Danes in communication with the Rus’ and its reflections in the building of St Olaf’s churches.

Kapucíni na Slovensku. 30 rokov od založenia slovenskej provincie

Author(s): Ladislav Tkáčik / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2017

The first traces of the capuchin friars in the area of today’s Slovakia can be registered continuously since the 15-year war (1593 – 1606). Despite repeated attempts, the friars settled in Hungary only after the division of the Czech-Austrian province (founded in 1618) in 1673 to the Czech province and the Austro-Hungarian Province. The first place in Hungary, where they finally settled in 1674, was Pezinok. Two years later in 1676, followed by Bratislava. The founding of the third friary on the Slovak territory took place only in 1756 in Holíč. The Slovak friaries were sequentially part of the Austro-Hungarian Province, the Vienna Province, the Czech-Moravian Province and the Czechoslovak Province. They were also administered as the General Commissariat and the General Vice-province. This study deals with the exciting story of the capuchin friars in Slovakia, which is part of the European Franciscan story and which led to the establishment of an independent Slovak Province in 1987.

Chrystianizacja Połabia i Pomorza (X–XII w.).

Author(s): Stanisław Rosik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

This paper outlines the processes of Christianisation taking place in Polabia and Pomerania between the tenth and twelfth centuries. It looks at actions aimed at converting the communities and subsuming them under the structures of church organisation, closely related to the monarchy. These were shown on the basis of accounts that originated in milieus involved in the Slavonic missions: The Chronicle by Thietmar, the Bishop of Merseburg (d. 1018); The Chronicle of the Slavs by Helmold of Bosau (d. 1177); and the hagiography of St Otto of Bamberg (d. 1139), composed during two decades after his death and including St Otto’s report on his first Baltic mission from 1125.

The Papacy and the Czech Lands. A History of Mutual Relations, ed. Tomáš Černušák, Biblioteca dell’Istituto Storico Ceco di Roma/Institute of History, Rome–Prague 2016, ss. 382

Author(s): Ziemowit Kraska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2017

Прологът на Disciplina Clericalis от Петрус Алфонси – няколко възможни паралела

Author(s): Elina Boeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2017

The paper examines Disciplina Clericalis: a Medieval treatise from 12th century composed in Latin. In Disciplina Clericalis, the author – Petrus Afonsi – combines numerous stories, tales and proverbs of Eastern origin (both Hebrew and Arab). The book does not have an analogue in Western literature at that time and has been an inspiration for Western writers for centuries to come. The prologue of Disciplina Clericalis is where the voice of the author is most easily recognised. Petrus reaffirms himself in it as a Christian author and states the aims, purpose and origins of his book. The structure and topics of the prologue bear a surprising resemblance to the prologue of one of the most eminent philosophical treatises of medieval Jewish thought: the Book of Beliefs and Opinions by Saadia Gaon.

Društveno okružje i poticaj za Reformaciju u Zapadnom kršćanstvu

Author(s): Zvonimir Batista,Drago Blažević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1+2/2017

Početkom novog vijeka često se mogao čuti govor o novìni, reformi, akomodaciji, obnovi... I u Crkvi se dugo vremena govorilo o potrebnoj obnovi, svježem zraku, no za nju se nitko nije zdušnije založio. Da se ona na vrijeme provela u djelo povijest Crkve na Zapadu drugačije bi se odvijala. No, budući da je došla relativno kasno posljedica jest nova, bolna podjela. Brojni ustaju na učmalo, letargično stanje Crkve, kritiziraju život klera i laika da bi se na koncu odcijepili od Katoličke Crkve. Njih sve nazivamo zajedničkim imenom protestantima. Uzroci njihovog pojavka su brojni. Ipak, radi lakšeg shvaćanja možemo ih podijeliti u tri skupine. Prvi uzroci općenito su Crkvene naravi. Tiču se vjerskog života klera, osobito papa, ali i života laika. Druge razloge možemo pronaći u pokretima humanizma i renesanse koji su donijeli sa sobom jedan novi pogled na stvarnost. I treći su novi pokreti u Crkvi koji su nesvjesno pripremili teren za reformaciju. Da bi dobili cjelovitu sliku potrebno je pogledati dublje u sve tri skupine.

Ks. prof. dr hab. Józef Herbut (1933–2018)

Author(s): Kazimierz M. Wolsza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Ks. prof. dr hab. Józef Herbut (1933–2018)

Ojciec profesor Józef Ścibor (30 I 1930 – 3 VI 2017) ‒ student, pracownik i świadek historii Instytutu Muzykologii Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II

Author(s): Andrzej Gładysz / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 51/2018

The article introduces the figure of Redemptorist, rev. prof. Józef Ścibor, a well-known musicologist, expert in the theory and history of medieval music, a specialist in the field of Gregorian chant, and respected organist – composer of liturgical music. Father Ścibor for almost all his life was associated with the Institute of Musicology of The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. A short biography is therefore not only a reminder of J. Ścibor, but also a contribution to the history of his University and the Institute.

Johannesbote Rundbrief des Heimatwerkes der Katholiken aus der Freien Prälatur Schneidemühl (Grenzmark Posen Westpreussen), Weihnachten 69(2017)

Author(s): Tadeusz Ceynowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2018

Sympozjum naukowe Święty Otton. Apostoł Pomorza (Słupsk, 4 grudnia 2017 r.)

Author(s): Krystyna Krawiec-Złotkowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 25/2018

Kazanie Marcina Lutra na poświęcenie kościoła zamkowego w Torgawie

Author(s): Jerzy Sojka,Ewa Sojka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2017

The main part of the article „Martin Luther’s Sermon at the Dedication of the Castle Church in Torgau” is a translation to Polish of the Reformer’s sermon on the 5th of October 1544 to the text from Luke 14:1-11. It was delivered during the ceremony of consecration of one of the first churches built from the beginning as an evangelical temple. The text of the translation is accompanied by an introduction, which discusses the church in Torgau and the circumstances of its consecration, as well as a commentary that includes the main threads of M. Luther’s sermon, which include: definition of an evangelical service, questions of remembering the Sunday, and the social structure based on various vocations.

BOSANSKO ČETVEROEVANĐELJE - SOFIJSKI ODLOMCI

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Church Slavonic Issue: 80/2018

The Sophia fragment of the Gospels comes from a mediaeval codex that belonged to the Bosnian Church. It is kept in the Bulgarian National Library of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Sophia, under call sign. НБКМ 23+468, in the Славянски ръкописи or Slavic Manuscripts collection. The surviving fragment comprises 52 pages from what was originally a much larger manuscript. It contains parts of the second half of the Gospel according to Matthew and the beginning of the Gospel according to Mark. The surviving sections of the codex offer no information that might point to the book's earliest owners and the manuscript has no marginal glosses, but repairs to it and liturgical markings added subsequently do suggest it may have been kept for at least a short period of time in an Orthodox monastery. The Sophia Gospels were copied out in the second half of the 14th century in a Cyrillic script whose palaeographic and orthographic features are consistent with contemporary Church Slavonic manuscripts from Bosnia, while linguistic forms found in the fragments suggest they may have come from an area with a diphthongic value for Jat. The lexical choices in the Sophia Gospels are reliable evidence that the exemplar used by the scribe was highly archaic, a finding in line with the current state of knowledge regarding the Bosnian group, which passed on the oldest version of Cyril and Methodius’ translation of the New Testament. This critical edition of the Sophia Gospels, which includes variants from two other Bosnian manuscripts, the Vrutok and the Dovolje Gospels, has confirmed the high degree of closeness between the exemplars of the Sophia and of the Vrutok gospels. This research makes it possible to state that the Bosnian Sophia Gospels offer a typical example of the New Testament text as preserved under the aegis of the Bosnian Church.

Kapelan wojskowy Edward Choma (1889-1940) – ofiara zbrodni katyńskiej

Author(s): Witold Jarno / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

The article describes the life of priest Edward Choma. He was born in 1889 in Zloczow in Eastern Galicia. In 1913 he was ordained a priest and began pastoral work in the diocese of Lviv. In 1917 he was appointed to the Austrian army, in which he served until October 1918. After returning to Lviv in November 1918, he volunteered for the Polish army. Initially, he was a chaplain in the 38th Infantry Regiment, and then he was a parish priest of the 4th Infantry Division. After the end of the Polish-Bolshevik war he became a chaplain of the military parish in Skierniewice (1921-1930), then a military parish in Słonim (1930-1936) and a military parish in Radom (1936-1939). In September 1939 in more unknown circumstances he got into Soviet captivity and was murdered in the Katyn forest in April 1940.

Na styku wyznań, narodów, kultur. Ewangelicy i katolicy na ziemiach polskich w XIX wieku i na początku XX wieku

Author(s): Tadeusz Stegner / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The contact of the Protestant population with the prevailing Catholic population in the Polish territories in the nineteenth century took place on three levels: religious, national and cultural. Protestants and Catholics were strangers to each other. Their systems of values on the religious, cultural, and usually also national level were different. In addition, Evangelical and Catholic opinion-forming circles emphasized mutual distances in order to strengthen faith. Barriers between them, however, were not impassable, as evidenced by quite numerous conversions, mixed marriages, as well as mutual acceptance of their differences in a number of environments and the meeting of cultures. The alienness of Evangelicals and Catholics, often turning into open hostility, was greater in the territories of the Prussian partition than in the Kingdom of Poland or in Cieszyn Silesia. Larger in the end than at the beginning of the 19th century. Th e decisive influence on this fact was the growth of nationalist tendencies, nationalist conflicts, especially Polish-German ones, on the Polish territories.

Poslovna i obiteljska strategija samoborske medičarsko-svjećarske obitelji Oslaković

Author(s): Sonja Kirchhoffer / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 32/2009

Using the oral history method, the article analyses the factors of survival of the family Oslaković from Samobor, dealing with honey- and candle-making craft, on the market in the time of great political and economic changes from the 1930s till the present. The analysis shows that family is a very flexible category which, accompanied by an adequate business strategy, plays a crucial role in business success.

Да похапнем на Балканите на път към Светите земи

Author(s): Yoanna Bencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

The present article examines the reports on food in the Balkans made by pilgrims on their way to or back from the Holy Land. The research is focused on reports of pilgrims originating from Western Europe as well as the Russian territories from the period between the 11th and 15th century. Among those pilgrims are the Englishman William Wеy, the Germans Arnold von Harff, Felix Fabri, Johannes Schiltberger, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Ludolph von Suchem, the Burgundian Bertrandon de la Broquière, the two Spaniards Pero Tafur and Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo, the Italians Pietro Casola, Bernardo Michelozzi, the Irishman Symon Semeonis, the Russians Danilo, Antonius of Novgorod, Zosim and others. The article traces out their routes through the Balkans and the food possibilities that they discovered in Dalmatia, Constantinople, Peloponnese or the interior of the Peninsula. It gives answers to the following questions: what preparations did the pilgrims make before their journey to the Holy Land; which food they preferred and was most likely to satisfy their needs – the meal in taverns, monasteries, on the ship, on the ruler’s table or the self-prepared food; was there any difference between their food in different parts of the Balkans; which were their favourite meals; were there any differences between the food preferences of the Western European and the Russian pilgrims. Some travellers compiled dictionaries to facilitate their communication with the local people and to assure easier procurement of food and shelter. The article analyses the words in different languages referring to food included in the dictionaries; this gives an idea about the differences between the tastes of the Balkan population – Slavs, Greeks, Albanians, Turks.

Pięćdziesiąt lat po wielkich uroczystościach – Międzyrzecz w kręgu obchodów 1000-lecia Państwa Polskiego i Millenium Chrztu Polski w 1966 roku (w świetle wybranych źródeł)

Author(s): Marceli Tureczek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

In 1996, Międzyrzecz – at the time a town of about 12,000 inhabitants – became the location for the celebrations connected with the 1000th anniversary of the Polish State and simultaneously an important site within the then Zielona Góra voivodeship for the religious commemoration of the Millennium of the Baptism of Poland. In light of the socio-political situation in Poland at that time, the state and church celebrations occurred independently of each other and, to a significant degree, had a competitive character; indeed, on the part of the Communist authorities there was hostility towards to the actions of the catholic Church. However, in both cases the choice of place was decided by the Polish Piast heritage of the town which, in a clear way for both the state and Church authorities, justified Poland’s territorial acquisitions after World War II. Still today there is a considerable material and intangible heritage in the town of these celebrations which – despite their importance transcending Międzyrzecz – is poorly recognised in the Polish literature. It should also be noted that, fifty years after these events, in 2016 Międzyrzecz once again became – due to its heritage and significance in the medieval history of Piast Poland – the location of state and religious celebrations on the occasion of the 1050th anniversary of the Christianisation of Poland. This time, the celebrations were held jointly.