Święty Hieronim jako duszpasterz
Saint Jerome as a Priest

Summary/Abstract: The article shows St. Jerome as the priest. The author analyses chosen letters of St. Jerome. A Letter was for St. Jerome a kind of meeting and immediate conversation with the addressees. By a letter St. Jerome aproches to them as a priest. In his own priestly activity St. Jerome uses the existential situation of addressees. He does not limit himself only to the description of their existential situation. He deepens the sense of their life in the biblical context. Words of the Bible fit well to the situation of his addressees. The Bible is for St. Jerome a base of his argumentation. From the Bible he leads out consolations and moral requirings which have a salutary character. The maine goal of St. Jerome’s priestly activity is the moral instruction.

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