Studia Pastoralne
Rocznik Wydziału Teologicznego UŚ

Youth Ministry in Germany: An Evergreen with ever new aspects
Summary
In Germany, the youth ministry is a thematic field that is reflected in various different ways since the time of the Second Vatican Council. This paper responds to these different types of reflections and develops a few pastoral-theological accesses. The German dioceses adopted on the Synod of Würzburg (1971 to 1975) a resolution about aims and assignments of the youth ministry of the Church. In 1991 the German Conference of Bishops publishes leading guidelines for the youth ministry. The aim of both papers of the Church is to lay the foundations of a theory of the youth ministry. This theory should be of good service to the practical pastoral service. Its theological foundations include anthropological (adolescents and young adults are the subject of the youth ministry), ecclesiological (the pastoral service is nourished by the act of being sent, i.e. its mission) and christological (God’s work is directly performed in the lives of young people). This paper reflects about this theology in an exemplary way by discussing three cases: First, it contemplates the service of altar servers in German parishes; second, it treats the theory of the school ministry and, third and finally, it deals with the pastoral activities of a spiritual community.

Youth Ministry in the Provinces of The Order of Friars Minor in Poland
Summary
In the five provinces of the Order of Friars Minor in Poland the Franciscan youth ministry is realized in different forms and according to various concepts arising from the historical conditions as well as from reading the signs of our times in the Church. Each of the provinces realizes its own project of pastoral activity among young people. This article presents short characteristics of the Franciscan youth groups gathering mainly young people attending high schools. After presentation of the groups, taking into account the selected conclusions and postulates that appear in the Order’s document of 2002 entitled “Directions of Ministry of Vocations. Come and See” , and referring to The Preparatory Document for the 15th Ordinary General Assembly of Synod of Bishops on “Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment” the most important tasks and challenges these groups are facing have been described.

Monastic liturgy as help in growth in faith as descerning one’s vocation for the young
Summary
Pope Francis, concerned about the future of the young people has summoned the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops devoted to the young people that will be held in October 2018. In the Preparatory Document he has invited, among others, the consecrated people to work with him and try to answer the important questions: How to help young people to meet Jesus? How to help them to develop their faith and discern their vocation?
It seems that nuns, friars and monks may support the pastoral activity of the Holy Father by sharing the wealth of their community life. In this thesis, apart from the wealth of charisms and the heritage of the saint founders of religious congregations and orders the liturgical life of monasteries and convents has been especially underlined. New appreciation of the monastic liturgy by the ongoing formation as well as opening the liturgy, usually locked in monastic enclosure, to the young people, is a precious contribution to the evangelization.
Therefore the author of the thesis focuses on silence, praying the Liturgy of Hours, the Holy Mass of the communities, the liturgical books and calendars and the ceremonies that accompany entering particular stages of monastic formation. It all constitutes the wealth, which the consecrated people living in cloisters, following the example of Mary of Bethany, want to present anew to the young people in the evangelic way. They want to do all of that in order for the young people to be able to recognize the God in the beauty of monastic liturgy, to believe in Him more deeply, and to discern where He wants to send them.

DIE ZELEBRATION DER SCHULMESSE.
Zusammenfassung
Kirche empfiehlt die Zelebration der Eucharistie mit Kinderbeteiligung, besonders an Werktagen, weil sie Kindern mehr geistigen Nutzen in ihrer eucharistischen Formation bringen kann. In unseren Pfarreien wird sie „Schulmesse” genannt, die jede Woche für die Kinder aus der Grundschule gefeiert wird.
Direktorium für Kindermessen legt einen besonderen Wert auf die Vorbereitung der Gebete, Gesänge, Lesungen und Fürbitten. Diese vorangehende Vorbereitung verlangt vom Vorsteher eine Verständigungskunst mit Erwachsenen und Kindern, die besondere Aufgaben in der Eucharistiefeier übernehmen.
In diesem Beitrag werden die pastoralen Adaptations- und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten einzelner Teile der Messfeier mit Kindern an Werktagen präsentiert, in Anlehnung an Direktorium für Kindermessen und Allgemeine Einführung in das Römische Messbuch.
Schulmessen mit einem großen Kinderengagement sind eine ernstzunehmende Chance für die eucharistische Formation, aber sie können keineswegs die einzige Messfeierform für Kinder bleiben, weil Kinder stufenweise in die Sonntagseucharistie mit Erwachsenen eingeführt werden sollen. Aus psychologischen Gründen ist die öftere Zelebration dieser Messfeierform jedoch nicht zu empfehlen. Man kann dadurch leicht den Hauptakzent der Kinderbeteiligung an der Messe auf die Einführung verschieben und die Zelebration der Eucharistie banalisieren.

DER PASTORALE DIENST DER KIRCHE IN DER SCHULE

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