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Evangelizzazione e sacramento della penitenza
Nykiel, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2022)
The new cultural scenarios which are more and more secularized, very plural and strongly influenced by the digital culture, in front of old and new challenges require the precise choices in life, in particular the Christian one. Let us usk, what place does the Christian faith occupy in them? This question deserves an adequate answer that the Church intends to offer by proposing a renewal of the ecclesial journey that focuses on the evangelization of cultures but also of Christian life itself and of sacramental pastoral care. This contribution highlights the ancient and ever new relationship between evangelization and the sacrament of Penance, framing it in the intrinsic connection between Word of God and Sacrament, between faith and the sacraments of faith that innervate the concrete Christian experience of individuals and communities. In this scenario, the Sacrament of Penance, adequately evangelized, understood and well celebrated, plays a twofold role: that of making practicable the merciful love of God that prevents, welcomes, forgives and restores life, and the more specifically “missionary” role that translates the witness of a renewed and merciful life of the penitent into an authentic evangelizing action, the heart of which is represented by the message of the revolution of divine tenderness that makes all things new. Individual believers and communities draw from the Sacrament of Penance the strength of God’s merciful love, which heals and resurrects, and re-proposes the Christian life as the most beautiful adventure to be experienced, since forgiveness asked for and received becomes the highest school where love is welcomed as a gift which, in turn, must always be given.
The Loss of the Sense of Sin and the Arrogance of Life: Challenges for Today’s Evangelization
Nykiel, Krzysztof (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2023)
At the beginning of 2014, during his morning meditations, Pope Francis, when referring to a famous phrase by Pius XII, stated that losing the sense of sin is the evil of this civilisation, an evil that strengthens Christian mediocrity and is inversely proportional to directing attention towards – and constructing – the Kingdom of God among men. The categories of sense of sin and sense of guilt, at least in theory and without generalisations, become understandable in the context of the Christian experience and the ecclesial consciousness; yet, when the human horizon is extended, the two concepts do not find a right to citizenship because the question is not even raised. The children and creators of contemporary culture, the men and women of our time, although directed towards the Kingdom of God, are strongly influenced by the global and plural secularist mentality, and this has a negative impact on their attitudes, behaviour and expressions of their existence. The Church, both within herself and outside herself, poses to herself the question of how she can redirect the expressions of this unprecedented anthropology towards Gospel values. The problem is not so much how to bring to the surface the sense of guilt and sin but, rather, how to restore or generate faith in the hearts of men. Effective evangelisation has the task of bringing back the Gospel into men’s hearts and educating in a sense of God so that contemporary man can have a higher paradigm (God) on which to base himself.