Kult świętych w katechezie

Abstract

The article begins with showing the teaching of the Catholic Church on the significance of the cult of saints. Numerous people beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II in the course of his long pontificate are the best proof of topicality of the problem of saints as personal models and of the need of such people in our times. In the next part of the article the relation between the cult of saints and the worship of God, and next the connection between the cult and Christ’s Paschal mystery are discussed. We can also find the answer to three important questions here, namely, Why are saints necessary? Should saints’ pictures be worshipped? Where can we meet saints, while still being on earth?