This article analyses the last four synods of the diocese of Tarnów, highlighting their structure and course. Diocesan synods grow out of the needs of the particular Church; they shape the ecclesial reality most clearly by the formulated disciplinary, pastoral and spiritual proposals, reaching the very basic ecclesiastical and social environments. Each synod has its specific meaning in the history of the diocese, and its impact is certainly not limited to the formulated proposals. A diocesan synod has a very important function in the process of formation of the particular Church. The synods of the Diocese of Tarnów were the place of meeting of and dialogue between the bishop, the clergy and the laity of the Church in Tarnów. The present article discusses five points : ”Legal grounds”, “First Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1928”, “Second Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1938”, “Third Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1948”, “Fourth Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów – 1986”.
“Particular Churches, in which and from which, the one and only Catholic Church exists, are principally dioceses. Unless the contrary is clear, the following are equivalent to a diocese: a territorial prelature, a territorial abbacy, a vicariate apostolic, a prefecture apostolic and a permanently established apostolic administration” (canon 368 of the Code of Canon Law). In December 2016, the Bishop of Tarnów convened the 5th Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów. The main purpose of a Synod – in the opinion of the Bishop of Tarnów – was to demonstrate the spiritual, pastoral and material heritage of the Christ’s Church in the Diocese of Tarnów; to revive faith, hope and love in the personal and community relationship with Christ in the Church; and to indicate new pastoral ways in the changeability of the world towards the unchangeability of Christ. Taking this into consideration the article analyzes the following issues: the definition of a synod; the purpose of a synod; convocation of and presiding over a diocesan synod; the preparation of a synod; Pope Francis about synodality, and finally “The Church is our neighbour” – a synod as an expression of love for the Church.
“Particular Churches, in which and from which, the one and only Catholic Church exists, are principally dioceses. Unless the contrary is clear, the following are equivalent to a diocese: a territorial prelature, a territorial abbacy, a vicariate apostolic, a prefecture apostolic and a permanently established apostolic administration” (canon 368 of the Code of Canon Law). In December 2016, the Bishop of Tarnów convened the 5th Synod of the Diocese of Tarnów. The main purpose of a Synod – in the opinion of the Bishop of Tarnów – was to demonstrate the spiritual, pastoral and material heritage of the Christ’s Church in the Diocese of Tarnów; to revive faith, hope and love in the personal and community relationship with Christ in the Church; and to indicate new pastoral ways in the changeability of the world towards the unchangeability of Christ. Taking this into consideration the article analyzes the following issues: the definition of a synod; the purpose of a synod; convocation of and presiding over a diocesan synod; the preparation of a synod; Pope Francis about synodality, and finally “The Church is our neighbour” – a synod as an expression of love for the Church.
In this paper the author first outlines the new revolutionary concept of the local church as raised by the Second Council. He highlights the insufficient implementation of this innovation in the life of the Church in Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in the Catholic Church in general. In the second point, he interprets the Council’s teaching on this critical topic and also recalls the post-conciliar development of theological reflections on the issue of the particular and local church. Finally in the third paragraph he applies the possibilities offered by this doctrine on the issue of the transformation of the attitudes of contemporary Czech Catholics to the figure of Jan Hus and the Hussite movement. Hus and the subsequent Hussite movement can be perceived as a reformist wing within the universal Church of that time. Utraquism in particular appears to him as a specific form of the local church within the universal Church.
The article deals with the problem of searching for the essence of the relationship between the particular and the universal Church. It presents the pivots of division into the universal Church and the particular Churches. The issue of the universal Church’s primacy and the interaction between them is extended. Presented are the forms of the presence of the universal Church in the particular and the nature and mission of the episcopate. The consideration is analytical and synthesizing. The work is part of the current of reflections on Eucharistic ecclesiology and the theology of the particular Church. These issues in the thought of J.R. Villar show how to understand the relationship of the particular Church to the universal.
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Artykuł podejmuje problematykę poszukiwania istoty relacji Kościoła powszechnego z Kościołami partykularnymi w myśli ks. José Ramóna Villara. Prezentuje osie podziału na Kościół powszechny i Kościoły partykularne. Poszerza się zagadnienia pierwszeństwa Kościoła powszechnego, wzajemnego oddziaływania między Kościołami powszechnym a partykularnymi. Prezentowane są formy obecności Kościoła powszechnego w partykularnym oraz natura i misja episkopatu w Kościele. Całość rozważań ma charakter analityczno-syntezujący. Praca wpisuje się w nurt rozważań nad eklezjologią eucharystyczną i przede wszystkim nad teologią Kościoła partykularnego. Zagadnienia te w myśli J.R. Villara pokazują w sposób wyrazisty, jak rozumieć relację Kościoła partykularnego do powszechnego.
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