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The “Lay State” – a Signifier of Transformations in the Church?

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Lombaerts H.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

2015

vol. 5

issue 1

This article explores the renewal lay people initiated at a decisive moment in Church history. In the 16th – 17th century, with the development of the modern school, lay people were given the responsibility to teach religion and to guarantee Christian education in schools. A new type of religious congregation, with exclusively lay members, emerged. They had an impressive impact, worldwide, over the past three centuries. However, as the members of these congregations declined dramatically over the past decades, one wonders whether new generations will succeed in guaranteeing continuity in the near future. Or will ordinary, secular but baptized lay people create new forms of association while taking on responsibility for school education?Michel Sauvage (1923-2001), a French member of the De La Salle religious order, studied the theological identity of the lay “teaching brother” as initiated by J.-B. De La Salle at the end of the 17th century. The present situation, with 1.9 % brothers left and 97.6 % ordinary lay teachers in the educational institutions worldwide, seems to suggest that, once more, a historical mutation is occurring in the church.

Apostolic consciousness of Don Bosco. A hermeneutical-phenomenological approach to his spirituality

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Anthony F.-V.

Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe

2015

vol. 36

issue 1

29-45

W niniejszym, krótkim artykule autor stara się ukazać strukturę apostolskiej świadomości księdza Bosko poprzez analizę hermeneutyczno-fenomenologiczną próbki jego pism, przemówień i opowiadań o nim. Teksty te obejmują okres trzydziestu lat (1847-1879), który odpowiada fazie aktywnego zaangażowania księdza Bosko (wiek od 32 do 64 lat) w apostolstwo młodzieży. Skoro „apostolat”, czy też „misja”, zawiera w sobie przekonanie o byciu posłanym, zatem „apostolska świadomość księdza Bosko” obejmuje jego przekonania o rzeczywistości młodzieży, o sobie samym i o Bogu w procesie dążenia do ostatecznego celu życia. Taka świadomość apostolska może być postrzegana jako sedno duchowości salezjańskiej.

In this brief article, the author seeks to evince the structure of Don Bosco’s apostolic consciousness through a hermeneutical phenomenological analysis of a sample of first-hand writings, discourses and narratives of Don Bosco. These texts cover a span of over thirty years (1847 to 1879) which represent the phase in which Don Bosco (aged 32 to 64) was actively involved in youth apostolate. Insofar as apostolate or mission implies the conviction of being sent, “apostolic consciousness of Don Bosco” can be understood to comprise the consciousness he manifests about the reality of youth, about himself, and about God, in realizing the ultimate scope life. Such an apostolic consciousness can be regarded as the core of Salesian spirituality.

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The “Lay State” – a Signifier of Transformations in the Church?

Apostolic consciousness of Don Bosco. A hermeneutical-phenomenological approach to his spirituality