Funkcja komplementarna katechezy

Abstract

By the side of didactic and methodological principles the existing educational system is based on ideological assumptions that give an unequivocal definition of the goals of instruction and education. They condition first of all the interpretation of world and Polish history and the millennial heritage of Polish culture. The system recommends the formation of an attitude of identification with the principles of the socialist state and regards such values as the state, the party and socialism as superior to the value of the human person. These programmatic assumptions set new tasks for catechesis in the parish. There is an urgend need to furnish the elements deliberately left out of the school programme which are indispensable to the survival of the millennial Christian tradition of the Polish nation. It is also necessary to change the present model of catechesis as information into that of formation. The school curriculum clearly shifts the emphasis from instruction to education, conceived as education in the spirit of materialism. The basic task of catechesis in the new situation is to strengthen the Christian identity and deepen religious awareness by a more full involvement of the pupils in the liturgical and communal life of the Church. Catechesis itself must become oven more of an appeal to the young and a sign of God’s presence in the world.