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CURA PASTORALIS IN THE LIGHT OF A PASTORAL ECCLESIOLOGY OF FATHER FRANCISZEK BLACHNICKI
On 21st of November 2004 is 40 anniversary of announcing a dogmatic konstitution about Church Lumen gen-tium, which endeepening the reflection of Church mistery shows at the same time a base of aftercouncil conception of religious service. It implicates at the same time new understanding of meaning "service", more often expressed by latin cura pastoralis instead of cura animarum. This is the way as father Blachnicki understood religious service. He in his scientifical work and charizmatical intuition undobtfuly foreheaded his epoch, becoming a special kind of prophetic lumen of assimilation and realization of teaching Vaticanum II.
Fr. Blachnicki endeepening ecclesilogy of Vaticanum II and works of contemprorary to him theologists discove-red that an expression koinonia, shows as one of accepting in ecclesiology a very rich reality under the name "Church". That "new picture of Church" became so precious, as it could become a leading picture for pastoral the-ology and religious service, expressing at the same time purpose, subject, aims and methods cura pastoralis of Church. Basing on new vision of Church, the autor of ecclesiological deduction of pastoral theology formulated a principle in a way of acting in the Church: "Church salvation intercession (means religious service), should be cele-brated in this purpuse and in this way to realisation selfgiving God in Christ in word, sacrament and to condition free receiving in together giving in Holy Spirit through faith and love, for personification the community in vertical (with God) and horisontal (with brothers) in visual and effective sign of eucharistic gathering, and a local community in unity with common Church".
Analising theological - pastoral work of fr. Blachnicki, one can state that he reviewed and improved till the end of his life ecclesiological conception of pastoral theology, verifing at the same time his thoughts in practice in Light - Life Movement of a living Church as its founder. He has even suggested a neccessity of creating pneumatological - Christological - ecclesiological tractat of pastoral theology, where a pneumatological vision of Church would be appreciated. That is why one of servant of God suggestion was a proposal to go from service to evangelization. He named it a Copernican turn. In that state it is possible to lead a whole and organic conception cura pastoralis, under-stood as a proccess of building a Church in local community. Reality of Church starts from evangelisation, which iniciates liberation proccesses of people and given environment. Next step is to endeep - by catechumenal formation - to life in ecclesial community (martyria, leiturgia, diakonia). That is why a main conclusion coming from the fact that Church realised in concret, local communities is for fr. Blachnicki a postulate to rebuild a whole religious servi-ce so it would serve the formation of basic communities of christian life in parishes. So it is neccessary to leadin a model of parishal community. To solve this dilemma; how to lead a model of postcouncil parish in life as one cannot build a living community without existing adult ecclessiological communities, the founder of Light - Life Movement showed a part and a chance in contemprorary life for different movements based on a whole and catechumenal for-mation. Fr. Blachnicki realised at the same time that composing model of realisation a parish as a community in Light - Life Movement has a fundamental influence on a style of work and priests life.

Does Poland need today the Truth about Freedom and Liberation as proclaimed by father Franciszek Blachnicki
Summary
The truth about freedom and liberation is constantly threatened by a false notion of freedom and an erroneous assumption that freedom is to be found only where there is no external compulsion. According to Father Blachnicki, real freedom is born out of an internal overcoming of a hatred that makes one use violence and abuse as means to an end. Using the Gospel as the starting point he would promote the fight for liberation without violence, using the power of faith, that allows one to give testimony to the truth in every situation. He was of the opinion that actions aimed at the liberation of man should be seen as continuations of the salvific mission of Christ.
In the face of alarming liberal attitudes that reject God’s rules in the name of incorrectly understood democracy it is worthwhile to bring to mind Father Blachnicki’s thesis that it is freedom that leads to liberation, not the other way round. For freedom is not a simple effect of liberation, and external liberation in itself does not guarantee the experiencing of internal freedom.
Thus at the bottom of this pro-liberation pursuit there is an internal liberation which is liberation of man within man carried out in the process of formation of new man. Ultimately freedom is not an ability to do anything, but it is freedom towards Good which is the source of happiness. Man becomes free up to the point of his recognition of the truth and his will is driven by freedom.
Theology of liberation presented by father Blachnicki is the application of theol¬ogy of redemption to solving specific manifestations of enslavement among people of the contemporary era.

DER BEGRIFF DER KATECHETIK IN DER REFLEXION POLNISCHER AUTOREN DER GEGENWART
Im Ausgangspunkt der Analyse steht die Feststellung, dass die neue Situation in der Katechese, die 1990 mit der Rückkehr des Religionsunterrichts (der Katechese) von den Pfarrgemeinden in die Schulen entstand, eine präzisere Bestimmung des Begriffs der Schulkatechese erfordert. Das ist aber kaum möglich ohne ein Nachdenken über den Begriff der Katechese selbst. Der Verfasser dieses Beitrags hat die Versuche der Begriffsbestimmung der Katechetik in den polnischen Publikationen, insbesondere in den Handbüchern der Katechetik, die nach Vaticanum II erschienen sind, aufmerksam verfolgt. Er bedauert, dass diesem Thema sehr wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wird. Im analy-sierten Zeitraum haben nur zwei Autoren in Polen Versuche unternommen, ihre eigenen Konzepte der Katechetik zu entwickeln: Franciszek Blachnicki und Mieczysław Majewski. Der erste von ihnen suchte die Ergebnisse der keryg-matischen Erneuerung in der Katechese anzuwenden; der zweite tat ähnliches auf dem Boden der anthropologischen Orientierung. Gegenwärtig strömt in die polnische Katechetik eine neue, hauptsächlich aus Deutschland stammende Tendenz, die Probleme der heutigen Katechese nicht im Rahmen der als ein Teil der Pastoraltheologie betrachteten Katechetik, sondern der Religionspädagogik zu erwägen. Der vorliegende Artikel ist ein Versuch, einen Anstoß zur Diskussion über den aktuellen Stand der polnischen Katechetik und über die Perspektiven ihrer Wei-terentwicklung zu geben.