Dzisiejsze perspektywy Planu Ewangelizacji „Ad Christum Redemptorem”

Abstract

Father Franciszek Blachnicki, the founder of the Movement of the Living Church, later called the Light and Life Movement, was an experienced pastoral theologian who - as Card. Karol Wojtyła said - was perfect in his translation of the teaching of the Council into practice. Fr. Blachnicki collected liturgical, educational, and catechumenal experiences which bore fruit in the form of new evangelisation programmes. Their original synthesis composes the Ad Christum Redemptorem Plan of Evangelisation proclaimed in 1980, therefore the Good News could reach each inhabitant of Poland. The programme was based on three basic stages of evangelisation and the watchwords of the beginning of John Paul H’s pontificate: 1. Stage one - action of prayer concentrated in the oases of prayer whose network should cover all the regions of the country. The watchword of this state brings to mind the great intercessory prayer of the pope: “May Your Spirit come down! May Your Spirit come down and restore the face of the earth! This earth!” 2. Stage two - kerygmatic evangelisation, working in group of catechumenal character, a response to the Pope’s calling: “Open the door to Christ!” Fr. Blachnicki provided a form of “the first evangelisation” at this stage. One of the elements to preach is the film Jesus, prepared especially for kerygmatic purposes. 3. Stage three - preaching “the Gospel of liberation,” under the watchword “Do not fear!” - spreading the Crusade of Man’s Liberation. The plan is designed to be supported by the evangelisational-catechumenal model of the parish as the community of communities. It describes stages through which evangelisation encompasses ever wider circle of people. The programme has bom many fruits, whereas its methods penetrated pastoral care in Poland. At the same time, however, at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s the programme lost its dynamism, among other things, because it was treated selectively and the formation of deacons was insufficient. The analysis of the programme shows how complex the plan was and, despite the changing socio-religious situation, it is still an important proposal ordering evangelisation on a large scale.