Misterium Krzyża i Męki Pańskiej w nabożeństwach parafialnych i rodzinnych

Abstract

The article discusses the services connected with the Cross and the Lord’s Passion on the basis of The Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy. Those services are taken into consideration that are celebrated in the parish community in the course of the liturgical year of the Catholic Church, including the Polish tradition of singing in churches the three parts of Leuten Psalms that are a favorite service of the Polish congregation during the Lent, as well as those services that are found in diocesan Liturgical Agendas containing the order of celebration of popular services. The second part discusses the family forms of celebration of the Lord’s Passion known in the tradition of the Catholic Church and those ones that are suggested in various books used in the home Church. The last part of the article treats about individual forms of Passion piety, among which there are well-known litanies and prayers; rosaries and litanies contained in Polish prayer-books. Also prayers in the house of mourning, by the dead man’s coffin, and the so called “empty nights”, when the Lord’s Passion is pondered, are mentioned.