Duchowość misyjna w „Redemptoris missio” Jana Pawła II

Abstract

The author has devoted his paper to the issue of missionary spirituality in the light of John Paul II’s encyclical Redemptoris missio. It is the first document of the Church ranked so high which takes an exhaustive approach to the issue in question. The problem of missionary spirituality has been discussed in this paper in three points: as the necessity of missionary spirituality, its specific character, and dimensions (such as submissiveness to the Holy Spirit, internal unification and imitation of Christ, love and “sense” of the Church, prayer and contemplation, asceticism, pastoral love, service to the truth, ability to witness, and desire for holiness.