Przygoda, Wiesław (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II, 2015)
The specificity of the senior age is becoming better recognized by gerontology, psychology, sociology and related sciences. It is also a serious challenge for the Church, because this community wants to provide pastoral care for all his faithful adequate to their needs. In this study were firstly presented specific religious needs of the elderly. The objectives and forms of pastoral seniors have also been described. In the final part of this article an apostolic activation of older people was underlined. From the point of view of the people involved it is paramount. The lay Catholics in Poland who are in old age are irreplaceable apostles, especially in the field of building of family bonds, charity, experience of suffering and prayer. The task of the clergy is apostolic formation of seniors, as well as animation of apostolic groups of old people in parishes.
