Pieśni o św. Maksymilianie jako źródło kaznodziejskie

Abstract

There are books written about music used for Church service, both Church hymns and religious songs. Ratzinger wrote about this subject; also other experts such as Twardy, Pawlak, Kucharska-Dreiss. This brief sketch is only a small part of a subject to encourage preachers in their work and practice to encompass the wide range of source possibilities for their homilies, so that the Word of God will be secured not only in “heaven” but also on “earth”; so that the truth of a person’s calling to a Godly community be firmly rooted in the human here and now. Otherwise the seed of truth won’t take root and will shrivel under the sun of the world. The Gospel would then become just another book to read that noone reads, and the preacher who comments the Word of God becomes just another “machine” which in itself is lifeless; while the transmission (of what’s heard) of the contents, the listener views as just an electronic generated axiom in an interactive reality. The preacher should therefore have his feet firmly planted on the ground and –looking up to heaven- sing to God in the Highest and announce peace to the people (compare Luke 2:14). Song is something close to a person. It should be well understood and used. That is the reason for this referat.