Niedziela dniem Kościoła domowego

Abstract

With the ecclesiastic experience as the point of departure, many Christian families pledge to live as the „home Church” Because of this, in a new, more existential approach, a relation emerges between family and liturgy that is understood either as the family's participation in the Church’s liturgical celebrations (sometimes celebrating liturgy in the family’s own home), or as preparation and prolonging the Church’s cult in the home circle. The climax of the Christian family's activity, and at the same time the source of power to turn home into a home Church is the Sunday Eucharist. John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Dies Domini teaches that celebration of Sunday starts on Saturday evening. The evening may be devoted to preparation of the Sunday’s liturgy or mutual prayer. The heart of Sunday’s celebration in a home Church is participation in celebration of Eucharist. In the experience of the home Church Sunday is first of all a paschal feast, the day of Christ-Light, the day that is glorified with the Resurrected Christ’s glory; it is celebrating the new creation and giving the Ghost’s gifts. In the home Church Sunday is the day of community, joy, rest, evangelisation, the Creator’s theophany. Through celebration of Sunday the members of the home Church will see everything in a new light - in the light of the Resurrected Christ. Sunday that is understood and experienced in this way becomes a kind of „soul” of the remaining days in the liturgical year, the inauguration of a new life in the beams sent by the Resurrected Christ.