Parafia miejscem ewangelizacyjnej odnowy Kościoła

Abstract

One has recently focused on the many structures and functions of the Church, which decided about her evangelizational restoration. We mean here the following: the family, small groups, catechesis, liturgy and the sacraments, apostleship etc. At times one perceives and it is the parish which constitutes a territorial and organizational basis for the Church; it is within the frameworks of the parish that the restoration is going to be put into practice. It is mainly in the parish that one may participate in the attributes of the Church, which is one, holy, Catholic and apostolic. From the point of view of ecclesiology one describes parish as not only a natural but also supernatural society which intimately bears on Christ and the visible power of the Church. The latter institution being supported and developed by the Holy Spirit as well as by functions, personal and community element, a fellowship of faith, cult and love, should basically contribute to showing the Kingdom of God in the world. It is in the parish that the Church-Fellowship is made present in a very concrete way, since here the redemptive events intersect with the lives of particular Christians, their local societies proclaiming the word, disposing the sacraments and living in brotherly love. Reflecting on the Church being made present leads us to the parish, whereas the constitution of her community character promotes the parish to a pastoral setting in which the Church reorientates. This reorientation mainly consists in a restoration of the evangelizational and community levels, functions or elements. They are co-constitutive, crossing dimensions: the supernatural one which endows evangelization with gifts and charismas and their evangelical union of friendship and fellowship; the natural dimension which is a response to the Restorer’s Grace which is fulfilled in the pastoral and apostolic service by the parish through the particular functions and personal and community elements, especially the dialogue, cooperation and coresponsibility. This "divine endowment" of the parish makes it a territory of concrete "reactions" made present by means of the above subjects and works. Then the whole venture is transformed into one sanctifying and salvational process of restoration in which among individual and collective acts Christ Himself becomes its foundation and principles of the life of the parish, then the local Church and the universal one. The study does not exhaust the subject matter but rather undertakes its most essential aspects. The most important idea is the idea of the Church’s universalism in the life of the parish, which imposes to support a multiform, restorative evangelizational action. This will make it possible to embrace anew with a pastoral reflection not only the divine-human "endowment" of the parish, but its evangelizational mission which, according to the post-conciliar doctrine, has embraced it all and orders it into one awakening and ecclessio-bearing aspect.