Jezus – posłany od Ojca w Duchu Świętym – wzór misjonarza
Jesus – sent from the Father in the Holy Spirit – a model of a missionary

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to determine the Trinitarian foundations of the mission and to indicate its practical conclusions. It consists of three parts dedicated in turn to the identity of the Messenger, the purposefulness of his mission and the participation of missionaries in the mission of Christ and of the Holy Spirit.The identity of the messenger (the only-begotten Son and the Holy Spirit) is shown from the perspective of intra-trinitarian relations. The Son was sent by the Father to be „teacher, king and priest of all” (Lumen gentium, 13a). The Holy Spirit, in turn, „brings” the risen Christ to the world and gathers his disciples „in one Church of Christ” (Catechism of The Catholic Church, 1097). In this way the world is going to be saved, which is the main goal of the sending of the Son (cf. Jn 3:17). The missionary’s participation in the mission of the incarnated Son consists in the realization of his priesthood expressed in the messianic triplex munus (teaching, sanctifying, directing, or: in the prophetic, sacrificial and pastoral function). Jesus of Nazareth is a model for the missionary as the high and eternal Priest who „offered himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit” (Heb 9:14).The main conclusion is expressed in the statement that the redeemed community building must be primarily patricentric and salvifically comple¬mentary: Christologically and pneumatologically grounded on the same time.

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