Stowarzyszenia kościelne działające przy parafii Kamień na początku XX w.

Abstract

Sanctimonious organizations greatly influenced piety of the faithful at the beginning of XX century. It was due to their wide popularity in catholic circles and the policy of national and church authorities which was favouratle for their development after Poland had regained independence in 1918. Besides priests themselves recognized the value of the associations both for the parish and parishioners, therefore they were in favour of them and promoted them in their circles. Members of those associations made spiritual progress easier through prayer, often receiving the Holy sacraments and examples life. Foundations of this activity and the development of religious associations in Kamień were laid by rev. Ignacy Antoniewski. He knew that apart from taking care of building a church and making efforts to create a parish in Kamień, he should care about spiritual life of the people he was entrusted with. On 27th September 1900, with he establishes Prayer Proselytization the permission of bishop Consistory in Przemyśl which was attached to the local church. 1174 people belonged to this association: it included 713 women and 461 men. There was also Adoration of the Holy Sacrament Association in this parish and it included 30 people. Their aim was adoration of the Holy Sacrament every first Sunday of a month. Eucharistic Crucade, established in November 1932 thanks to contemporary parish priest Rev. Henryk Grębski and religion teacher Rev. Adam Wojnarowski, cooperated with Prayer Proselytization. It worked under the aegis of a seven grade primary school in Kamień and it was conducted by the religion teacher earlier mentioned. Another association, established on 27th September 1900 by rev. J. Antoniewski, was the Blessed Family Association. Establishing this association was the expression of his great care of families he surrounded with pastoral care. The association which has been the most popular and has endured up to this day in the presented parish, is Living Rosary Association. It was introduced by Rev. I. Antoniewski on 27th September 1900. From the above analysis it appears that all the associations were developing first of all when rev. I. Antoniewski and Rev. J. Dziedzic administred. They were the ones who laid foundations for religions life of Kamień citizens. Their followers only took up the work started by their predecessors.