Șase decenii de la un binecuvântat eveniment din istoria moaștelor Sfintei Cuvioase Parascheva — generalizarea cultului ei (octombrie 1955 — octombrie

Author(s): Ion Vicovan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05+08/2015

Although the Romanian nation gave birth, over time, to many saints, their first canonization took place in 1950, in the time of Patriarch Justinian Marina (1948-1977). It also degreed the cult generalization of saints whose relics are in our country. Among the saints whose cult was extended a special attention was given to the cult of Saint Pious Paraskeva, „the house chandler of Moldova”, whose holy relics were brought to Iasi in 1641, in time of pious prince Vasile Lupu and holy bishop and scholar Varlaam. The event of Saint Paraskeva’s cult generalization was held on 14 October 1955, in the time of Metropolitan Sebastian Rusan (1950-1956), during the feast celebration. This was attended by Romanian and foreign hierarchs, a lot of priests, monks, nuns and believers. From this liturgical and spiritual event of exceptional importance we celebrate in this year six decades.

Profesja zakonna jako sakramentalium w kontekście liturgii Kościoła

Author(s): Adelajda Sielepin / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

In the article the profession of the religious has been presented according to the mutual relationship between sacramentals and sacraments. The study based on the euchologies of the new ritual and of the proper Mass orders proves the clear reference of the profession to baptism, Eucharist and indirectly to confirmation. It has been also emphasized that sacraments and sacramentals are mutually conditioned. They allow Christians for constant and creative connection with God and confirm complementarity of the principles ex opere operato and ex opere operantis in liturgy. This is Spirit the Paraclete, who enables to participate in the mystery of the bridal engagement with Christ in mature and fruitful way. Conscious commitment to the Holy Spirit, who should be associated with the sacrament of confirmation and with each epiclesis, helps to experience the act of profession and the results of it in the eschatological dimension. The profession of the religious, which belongs to the constitutive sacramentals, has an essential impact into the shaping and development of the participatio actuosa of the consecrated persons in the liturgical life of the Church.

L’aspetto ecclesiale dell’esistenza cristiana nella morte

Author(s): Sylwester Jaśkiewicz / Language(s): English,Italian Issue: 1/2015

This article draws attention to one of the important dimensions of the Christian vision of death, namely its ecclesial dimension. Human existence, after the pilgrimage, is not a solitary existence. Since the Church is one, as we profess in the Creed, all those who belong to Christ, both the living and the dead, belong to the one reality of the Church. The dead are thus not just pious memories in the human mind, but a continuing real presence in the Church, each according to one’s proper state. The Second Vatican Council recalled the three dimensions of the Church - the earthly, heavenly, and the being at the stage of purification. Since ancient times, the Church prays and encourages prayers for the dead, and recalls the communication of spiritual goods. While individual persons are responsible for their actions, including the preparation of the definitive meeting with the Lord, the whole Church still intercedes for them. With the reality of purgatory, which is, in fact, an experience of the mercy of God, persons closely united to Christ and His Church are able to achieve the measure of sanctification, which they failed to achieve during their earthly life.

A papi utánpótlás veteményes kertje a ministrálás

Author(s): Xénia Jonica / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

Exchange of gifts Experience of Global Christian Forum

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

The article presents spiritual foundation of Global Christian Forum and it consists of the followingparts: 1. Introduction; 2. Spiritual impulses; 3. Sharing faith on the way; 4. Discovering the waytowards contemporary ecumenism; 3. The end.The author was a participant of Global Christian Forum in the capital of Albania Tirana (2015).Now he is carefully looking at the program of the next world consultation of Christian Forum whichis to take place in Bogota (Colombia) in 2018. The subject of this meeting is a biblical thought “Letmutual love remain”.Christian unity which is experienced by participants of Christian Forum touches not just mind andwill but also emotions. The desire for ecumenical unity has its affective side. Ecumenism is an act ofChristian love for which Christ is praying in the Gospel (J 17:21). Ecumenical work does not consistonly of doctrinal and theological discussions about hermeneutic differences among Christians. Ecumenismis also a stirring of heart under the influence of the Holy Spirit. In its deeper sense ecumenismis a spiritual “gift exchange” as it was defined by John Paul II in the encyclical letter “Ut unum sint”, 28.

The Involvement of the Lay Faithful in Consecratio Mundi

Author(s): Elżbieta Osewska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The term consecratio mundi,despite its introduction to theology already before the Second Vatican Council, still sparks a lot of discussion and controversy. In this article we will address the issue of the sanctification of the world by lay people in accordance with the Church teaching. First, consecratio mundi will be presented as a specific mission of the lay faithful, then the article will present the basic planes of their involvement.

Die Grundzüge der Spiritualität des Ordenslebens im sechsten Kapitel in der dogmatischen Konstitution über die Kirche „Lumen gentium“

Author(s): Mateusz Micek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The article presents the basic principles of the spirituality of consecrated life as they are laid out in chapter VI of the Constitution on the Church. These principles can be summed up as the following:1. Consecrated life means the imitation of Christ.2. This imitation is of a charismatic nature, thus can only be lived by vocation, with the power of and originating from the Holy Spirit.3. The fruits of the works of the Holy Spirit, and consequently, the enforcement of the imitation of Christ is love; a love that is always love towards God and your neighbour. How diverse talents and vocations can be.4. Thanks to this love, enforced by the Holy Spirit, consecrated life presents itself as a present from Christ to the Church. It is therefore, placed in the centre of Church life and serves the Church not just by obedience and ministry, but even deeper by a living witness that reflects the pilgrimage of a Christian, and the hope for a life to come.

Die Freizeittheologie mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Ruhetheologie

Author(s): Maciej Ostrowski / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2017

The author performs an analysis of „theological places” („loci theologici”), as the basis on which leisure theology can be developed. These are: time theology (a linear concept of time, which means that time is a gift to man, if properly used), freedom theology (freedom not as a discharge from obligations but as the possibility to do good), new creation theology (renewal made by the redemptive work of Christ), joy theology (joy of gifts of nature, community with other person, being granted God’s grace), feast theology (time given to a man in order that he could turn to supernatural matters). The author develops ‘rest theology’ extensively as one of the fundamental forms of spending free time. He searches for sources in numerous biblical texts, where this term has been used. Furthermore, he interprets, among others, how to understand God’s rest after he created the world, and how his repose becomes an example to follow for a human being. Moreover, the author explains what the final repose is to be for a person, and how man, living on earth, anticipates an eschatological rest.

The Synods of the Diocese of Tarnów as a tool for the renewal of the particular Church

Author(s): Robert Kantor / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

This article analyses the last four synods of the diocese of Tarnów, highlighting their structure and course. Diocesan synods grow out of the needs of the particular Church; they shape the ecclesial reality most clearly by the formulated disciplinary, pastoral and spiritual proposals, reaching the very basic ecclesiastical and social environments. Each synod has its specific meaning in the history of the diocese, and its impact is certainly not limited to the formulated proposals. A diocesan synod has a very important function in the process of formation of the particular Church. The synods of the Diocese of Tarnów were the place of meeting of and dialogue between the bishop, the clergy and the laity of the Church in Tarnów. The present article discusses five points : ”Legal grounds”, “First Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1928”, “Second Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1938”, “Third Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1948”, “Fourth Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1986”.

Magyar nevelés, népi gondolat

Author(s): László Virt / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

The populist ideology serves the social integration helping close the untraversable gaps between casts.Th is concept was generated by the social crisis between the World Wars when mobility hardly had a chance. The fourmain characters of this essay are Sándor Karácsony, Zoltán Kodály, Áron Márton and László Németh.Th eir thoughts are very similar, they wanted to harmonize the thinking of the intellectuals, peasants and poor blue-collar workers. Shaping of thinking was a pedagogical goal for them and they all wanted to promote the spiritual and social rise of the poor. The essence of their pedagogical aims is that learning should be an experience and everybody should be able to rise from their own cultural background.

Exploring Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy’s exotic Brand of Christianity. What makes Christian Science unique in the religious landscape of Christian America?

Author(s): Iulian Mitran / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2017

Born in the early XIX century on a farm in New England, Mary Baker Eddy, which will come to be known both a distinguished Christian scholar, and one of the few prominent female religious leaders from history, she will embark early-on on a quest for seeking the greater truth in regard to how faith and healing are interconnected, and how does a Christian need to act in order to benefit from their works. Christian Science aligns itself with the traditional tenets associated with Christianity, but it also introduced some novel ideas and practices that were rapidly enhanced by some, and were classed as heresy by others. Through her works, Ms. Baker Eddy tried to redefine the role of the Church, and of Christ Himself, in the physical wellbeing of the faithful, but in the same time she challenged century-old doctrines that emphasized more the role of the Church as a social disci-plinarian, rather than that of a force that will militate for the forgiveness of the sinners, and the reconciliation between former enemies. The current paper aims at analyzing the particularities of Christian Science, its ra-ther “exotic elements”, and the various controversies that arose from the claims that the practices popular-ized by the church were, in fact, rooted in science. As it is today, Christian Science is still holding own strongly to its original tenets, no major doctrinal reforms being made along the way. Unlike other American Christians, Christian Scientists tend to be overrepresented in urban settings, as indicated by the available data.

Catechesis and its Six Tasks

Author(s): Carl-Mario Sultana / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The aim of catechesis is not simply to give information to interlocutors about the Catho-lic faith. Catechesis seeks to do much more than this, with its ultimate aim being that of putting the human being in communion with Christ. This is achieved through the six tasks of catechesis which need to be deeply embedded in human experiences. The six tasks through which catechesis seeks to achieve its endeavours include: knowledge of the faith, liturgical education, moral formation, formation in prayer and methods of prayer, education for community life and missionary initiation.

Fájdalom és keresztény lelkiség

Author(s): Attila Hajlák / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2018

Kovács Sándor temetésén

Author(s): Endre Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2018

Atya és barát

Author(s): Imre Korom / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2016

Kilenc gyümölcs

Author(s): Lilla Csaba / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2016

Halál és élet: utazás a világosságba

Author(s): László Őrsy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2016

Az értelmiség és az egyház

Author(s): Péter Molnár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2016

A "zöldfarsang" ünnepei és szokásai

Author(s): Lóránt Balla / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2016

Házasság, család, nevelés 20. századi magyar klasszikusok tükrében

Author(s): László Virt / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 05/2016