Człowiek w obliczu samotności

Abstract

Persons of their nature are called to live in a fellowship. At times they experience lack of any ties with others, a sense of distance and strangeness towards others, and in extreme circumstances isolation, or even a peculiar “social death” This kind of solitude may have various faces. Most often it is experienced by the elderly, the suffering, although it touches also the young, or even children. In each man’s life solitude is a source of suffering, one of his many faces, and – like any suffering – it is a challenge of moral character. The person is called to make solitude an occasion for manifesting his moral greatness and spiritual maturity. Solitude, like any suffering, can make the person better, or degrade him. The Church is called to eliminate its negative effects and rear its members to live through suffering in a creative manner.