Typy diakonii w realizacji żywego Kościoła

Abstract

The ancillary character of all offices and services in the Church expresses a spiritual attitude of the post-Council ecclesiology, which stresses the role of deaconship, that is of serving (CC 24) as a constant rule of pastorate. The Church’s evangelizing program is focused on the person of Christ, whom we are supposed to know, love and follow, in order to live a Trinitarian life in Him and to transform history with Him (NMI 29). A special task is to make the Church the home and school of communion (NMI 43) for his pupils. This vision of pastoral priorities at the threshold of a new millennium may be referred to the pastoral thought of God’s Servant Rev. Franciszek Blachnicki who pointed to different types of deaconship in forming a Church community. They are: liberation, evangelization, deutero-catechumenate, liturgy, family community (or Home Church), prayer and local community deaconships. The latter one gathers and organizes the experiences of all other deaconships and puts meeting the person of Jesus Christ in the center of its realization. The model of deaconship in his formulation is not only a keystone of the ancillary character of all services emphasized in the Light-Life Movement, but it may be considered a model solution and an efficient tool for the revival of the Church. The task of serving a living Church with the emphasis on the role of deaconship in evangelization is today realized by all the ecclesial movements and apostolic communities. Studying the conception of deaconship for a charismatic revival of the Church proposed by Rev. F. Blachnicki may be considered a universal inspiration of this pastoralist and originator of the Polish school of formation of the laity for the great current of revival of the Church. The basic forms of putting deaconship in effect as a function of realization of the Church will be discussed in the series of articles below. They will practically show both the typical manifestations of deaconship, and its new forms that are only appearing together with actualization and constructing koinonia in Christ by deaconship.