Młodość w służbie ołtarz
Youth in the service of the altar

Selected socio-pedagogical aspects of the community of altar servers in the Catholic Church

Author(s): Katarzyna Sadowska, Marta Jadwiga Kędzia
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Education, Theology and Religion, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: altar service; youth; identity; Liturgical Service of the Altar in the Roman Catholic Church; community; Christian education; personalism
Summary/Abstract: Altar service, formation functioning as part of the youth liturgical service of the altar in the Roman Catholic Church, considered in the socio-pedagogical context, is part of the mainstream of the thematic area of social Sciences and issues concerning the community of adolescent young people who seek life paths for themselves and shape their identity in a group of people. with similar beliefs and ideals. Among the problems considered in this study, one of the most important is the problem of youth in the service of the altar, focused on belonging to the community of altar boys, a group of people who "serve" in the church, identity in a special way with Christian education rooted in the stream of personalism. Therefore, the study tries to show a fragment of the social reality of young people from the perspective of personalistic pedagogy, "service" understood as "giving" to others the personal resources of an individual, selected educational concepts revealed in the Polish Church in the 20th century and the assumptions of Vatican II. The authors express their hope that the reading will become a contribution to reflection on the values important for the upbringing of young people, which - according to the authors - seem to be slowly recognized as less important than material goods in the contemporary world. At the same time - researchers want to point out that they have different worldviews, and thus want to emphasize that in the process of constructing this monograph, they paid attention to the values that connect beyond divisions. 

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