Prasakrament jako medytacja o małżeństwie i rodzinie

Abstract

The subject of John Paul II's meditation on the threshold of the Sistine Chapel is an attempt to read creative intuition of Michael Angelo's genius as well as brilliant spiritual, religious and Biblical intuition of the painter of frescos. Surrounded by unique paintings of the Sistine Chapel, which show the fullness of the Renaissance art, the pope yields to a vision in order to appeal in a novel way to thoughts and consciences of his contemporaries. These meditations reveal the global perception of the reality and a great wisdom pervading the intentions of his own heart and of the world in the light of the intention of God himself. Poetic deliberations of the Roman Triptych show the way in which important threads of theological anthropology, the successive steps of God's revelation in the history of mankind such as creation of man, sin, new responsibility connected with parenthood and finally, striking roots of parenthood itself in God, penetrate each other. Reading the poem “Presacrament” we have an impression that it is a peculiar crowning of the Wednesday catecheses on marriage and the whole teaching of John Paul II on marriage and family. In such an insignificant work, the pope and poet was able to enclose the deepest truth about God and man, about God, the Creator and a man who cooperates with God in the work of passing on life, about the communion of the Holy Trinity and the marital communion leading to a singular unity between God and people, whose fruit is a new human being, conceived and born in the greatest responsibility.