The formation of the global civil community causes the effacing of division into “the natives” and “the strangers” within the framework of individual states. Integration and unification processes give a new dimension to such notions as: emigration, diaspora and national identity. Emigration is more and more often comprehended as civilization phenomenon. Its positive economic, political and cultural advantages are the focus of attention; the countries that receive emigrants very often reap the economical benefits and the emigrants themselves solve the problems of unemployment in their own countries; migrational movements, on the other hand, help solve political and social problems, make the global integration, and mixing of cultural and civilization norms easier. Emigration itself helps to achieve cultural compromises, get used to mutual dissimilarities and accept differences.
The organization of the pastoral care in the Polish Catholic Mission in Osnabrück is based on the parish pastoral care. The Mission implements ordinary and extraordinary mini-stry. Proclaiming God’s Word, implemented through homily and catechesis, is done in Polish. It is assigned for children, young people and adult Catholics. Ministering of the worship of God is done according to the customs of the Church in Poland. The ministry of all the sacraments which can be administered in the parish is a regular practice, including the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation which can be ministered individually. Devotions as well as blessings are administered just like in Poland. The faithful attach great importance to maintaining the Polish tradition, especially to the blessing of food served at Easter as well as to the tradition of sharing the wafer during Christmas Eve. What is more, the Mission actively supports charities for the benefit of individuals and communities of believers mainly in Poland and in the eastern Europe. Other activities include pastoral pilgrimage and social work with children and young people.
Władysław Ząbek was born and raised in France, in Pas-de-Calais department, as a child of Polish emigrants who had come to France looking for work. After the Second World War he returned to Wałbrzych in Poland together with his parents, where he still lives. Władysław Ząbek describes mostly his daily life in a mining town in the north of France, dominated by Polish immigrants, he speaks about a Polish school, friendly relationships and the lifestyle of Poles in France. A significant part of the account is dedicated to the years of war and Nazi occupation of France. The next stage of Władysław Ząbek’s life was his return to Poland, to post-war Lower Silesia, which at that time was a national and religious melting-pot. The account shows the difficult beginnings of life in the unknown homeland, issues of Wałbrzych’s reconstruction after the war, the housing situation but also about the habits of re-emigrants from France, who constituted a distinct group in the post-war Wałbrzych and the region. Another important fact in Ząbek’s account is the time of studies in Donieck in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which he started following the advice of the headmaster of his secondary school. During his studies, Władysław participated in the Fifth World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw (1955) as a French interpreter. It was one of many significant events connected with his contact with France and the French language after his return to Poland proving that the childhood and teenage years spent in France had an impact on his life.
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