O strukturach polskiego przepowiadania podczas Eucharystii. Przeszłość – teraźniejszość – przyszłość

Abstract

The article entitled The Structures of Polish Preaching during the Eucharist. Past – Present – Future provides only an outline of the issues raised. Its focus is on the major models of preaching during the Holy Mass. From “the past” (the time before the Second Vatican Council), the structure of a sermon has been recalled. From “the present” (the post-conciliar period), the three-level existential-dialogical model (the so-called Polish model) and their three expanded variants have been reported: Fr Mieczysław Brzozowskiʼs, Fr Zbigniew Adamekʼs and Fr Jan Twardyʼs. As the model of “the future”, a structure of the authorʼs own design is proposed. Like those mentioned above, it is based on the existential-dialogical model. Its novelty lies in the proposal that the subject and the aim of the homily should become elements of its structure. In the post-conciliar model of preaching during the Eucharist, these are no longer spoken of in the homily itself as they used to be before the Second Vatican Council. Specifying the subject and aim of the homily has become a “technical activity”, which means they are “non-delivered” elements. I therefore propose that their place in the homily structure should be with the structure and thus connected with the structure. What is more important, however, is the conception of structure “proper”, which the author has based not on hodie – “today” (as Fr J. Twardy) but on hic et nunc – “here and now”. It is the structure proper that reflects the actual character of a homily, in which Christʼs salvific intervention takes place not “today” but “at this moment” – “here and now”.