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‘Legal representation’ of monastic communities in late antique papyri

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Wojtczak M.

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nr 49

347-399

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While focusing on the issues such as spirituality, faith, prayer, and discipline, the late antique literary discourse pays little attention to the engagement of monks in the mundane realities of daily life. The symbolic significance of the total withdrawal from the earthly matters have paved its way into common imagination of the monastic existence. One must, however, remain cautious while attempting to translate monastic writings into the reality of day-to-day life of a monk in Egypt. As shown by numerous papyri, social and economic relations between monks and the surrounding world were not sporadic, but an inevitable element of the monastic movement. The picture of Egyptian monasticism depicts a web of contacts with the ‘outside world’ and an entanglement of religious landscape in the local economy. In this article, I discuss only one aspect of the much broader issue, that is the existence of ‘legal capacity’ of monastic communities in late antique Egypt. I address the problem of ‘legal representation’ of monasteries as outlined in the sources of legal practice. For a lawyer, these observations are all the more stimulating as there has been an ongoing debate whether ‘legal persons’ as such existed at all in Roman law, and whether we could talk about anything approaching our current understanding of ‘legal personality’.

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Czy List biskupów Francji do katolików: Proponować wiarę w społeczeństwie aktualnym może być inspiracją dla Kościoła w Polsce? - antropologiczne i duchowe przesłanie

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Zarzycki S. T.

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tom 4

17-44

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This paper presents an analysis of the spiritual message sent by the French bishops to the French faithful in the Letter to the French Catholics: Proposing Faith to Contemporary Society. The author analyses the text in the anthropocentric perspective, giving the reader an insight into the axiological crisis in the French society. This helps explain why this society finds it difficult to open itself to spiritual, Christian values. At the same time, those aspects of the religious functioning that are still present in the French society are pinpointed as the assets on which the Church evangelization action should rely. Also discussed is the French crisis of the Catholic faith, and the methods that the episcopal Letter (composed by Claude Dagens, Bishop of Angouleme) suggests for overcoming the crisis. The need for the mobilization of the priests, more active prayer and apostolic associations and for the collective action of all the faithful is also emphasised. The change is only possible if the whole Church returns to the roots of the faith (the mystery of the Trinitarian God, Baptism, the Gospel and the sacraments); accepts a morality based on the experience of the faith, and not on the doctrinal law; preaches about salvation through Christ in a close relationship to the values of contemporary people; seeks power in her liturgy and in the service for the neighbour (diacony). The Letter can be inspirational for Polish Catholicism at the beginning of the Year of Faith. The author claims that the following elements of the Letter are worth pondering upon in the Polish context: (1) taking into account human experience in the time of axiological crisis; (2) a more integrated preaching of the Gospel, liturgy and the service for the neighbour; and (3) increased participation of the lay Catholics in religious communities, in order to shape one’s Catholic identity and to get engaged in the apostolic mission of the Church.

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Przejawy funkcjonowania Ruchu Światło-Życie w diecezji legnickiej w latach 1992–2014

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Kowalski S.

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nr 1

71-98

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The history of the Church is the history of smaller or larger communities. It is in a community that offers security, support, affirmation and strengthening that we come closest to God and to our neighbours. An example of such a community in which the Christians could find their place, and open up to a relationship with the Lord, is the Light-Life Movement, to which this paper is dedicated. The article draws attention to the necessity of human, spiritual, intellectual and liturgical formation, which were conducted in the Light-Life Movement. The author investigated retrospectively the fruits of this movement in the Diocese of Legnica in selected parishes. The fundamental events connected with the Oasis formation were recalled and put in order on the basis of an analysis of documents from the Movement files located in the Archives of the Curia of the Diocese of Legnica or in the Archives of the Higher Theological Seminary. Among others, the following documents were examined: manuscripts of sermons, conferences, catecheses, plans for retreats, trips, decrees, reports, which helped to assess the value of the work initiated by Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki.

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Historia Kościoła to historia wspólnot – mniejszych lub większych. To we wspólnocie, która zapewnia bezpieczeństwo, wsparcie, utwierdzenie i umocnienie, człowiek najbardziej zbliża się do Boga i do bliźniego. Jedną z takich wspólnot, w których chrześcijanin może znaleźć swoje miejsce i otworzyć się na relację z Panem Bogiem, jest ruch Światło-Życie – inicjatywa, której zostało poświęcone niniejsze opracowanie. W artykule zwrócono uwagę na konieczność formacji ludzkiej, duchowej, intelektualnej, liturgicznej realizowaną w ruchu Światło-Życie. Autor spojrzał z perspektywy czasu na owoce funkcjonowania Ruchu w diecezji legnickiej w wielu parafiach. Przypomniano i uporządkowano zasadnicze wydarzenia związane z oazową formacją. Dokonano tego, opierając się na analizie dokumentów z teczek znajdujących się w archiwum kurii diecezji legnickiej czy Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego. Zbadano m.in.: rękopisy kazań, konferencji, katechez; plany rekolekcji, wyjazdów; dekrety i sprawozdania, które pomogły ocenić wartość dzieła zainicjowanego przez ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego.