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    Published: 2022-11-29
    Vol. 40 (2022)

    I believe in the Church of communio - a challenge for homily preaching

    ks. Wojciech Turowski
    Studia Teologiczne Białystok Drohiczyn Łomża
    Section: Artykuły
    https://doi.org/10.56898/st.10639

    Abstract

    The next year in pastoral ministry will pass under the slogan: "I believe in the Church of Christ." The content of the slogan proposed by the Polish Episcopate refers to the Church and the question of what it is and finding the answer to what it means to believe in the Church of Christ. The Church is notoriously criticized these days. Frequent attacks are unjustified and result from ignorance of what the Church really is, which is divine-human. It is not enough to see in him only what is external, human; one should perceive the living God present in it, who is the Spirit. The article is a homiletic reflection focused on the conciliar understanding of the Church as communio. The article highlights the following important issues that will help in preaching the message of faith in the Church: Significant problems in perceiving faith in the Church and the Church; What does it mean to believe in the communio Church; The Holy Trinity as a model of relationships in the Church; The proclamation of the word of God builds a bond in the Church and the important role of the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist in the conciliar approach to communio of the Church. The article ends with conclusions and postulates, the most important of which is preaching the homily with enthusiasm, in the spirit of the conciliar teaching and the biblical understanding of communio. The preacher must not forget that it is from his words that a lot depends on whether the listeners will develop a living relationship with God who has spoken to them. The truth should not be missing that the Church is divine and not merely human; it is Christ's, where through the sacraments one comes to understand and experience what communio means.

     

     

    Keywords:

    Church communio, preaching the word of God, relationality of faith, the sacrament of baptism and the Eucharist

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