Teologia Chrystusa Sługi jako odpowiedź na znaki czasu

Abstract

In different periods of the Church’s history different features of Christ’s image were particularly strongly emphasized. Modern times, whose consciousness of themselves ‒ as far as the Church is concerned ‒ was defined at the Vatican Council II, are the times of Christ the Servant. This leading image, through the Council, enters the life of the Church ever deeper, and it determines its future. In the opinion of Franciszek Blachnicki, the founder of the Light-Life Movement, the theology of Christ the Servant should form its consciousness ever deeper, as it is a movement of revival of the Church, inspired by the Vatican Council II. The works that the God’s Servant created or inspired serve forming the Movement members and constantly reminding those truths. They are: the Christ the Servant Chapel with its rich iconography, the institute of consecrated life, that under the name of Institute of the Church’s Immaculate Mother is a form of deaconship and emanation of ecclesial movement, without which the Light-Life Movement would not be able to exist, and the Union of the Chaplains of Christ the Servant. Making an analysis of the pericope presenting Jesus’ apostles’ dispute over precedence (Luke 22, 24-27) the author of the article first points to its significance as a rule that should be characteristic of Jesus’ pupils’ conduct and should determine the life of the Church community, and then he shows how the rule of service was inscribed in the Light-Life Movement and how the movement itself ‒ through realization of service ‒ is the response of the Church in Poland to contemporary signs of the time.