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The paper presents the work of the parish during the twenty-two years following the end of World War II, i.e. during the forming of a new social order with the increasingly stronger Communist authority imposed on the Poles by Moscow, which each year more confidently interfered in the life of the Church in Poland. The paper focuses on what is the essence of the parish and a proof of its vitality, showing the clergy and their involvement in dispensing the sacraments, stimulating the religious life of the congregation and preaching both from the pulpit and in the parish groups. It also acknowledges the presence of the Order of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Virgin Mary in the Żurawica parish and draws attention to issues more mundane, yet important in pastoral work, i.e. financial situation. Here, like in a lens, one can see the general problems the Church in Poland faced after the war as well as local ones stemming from the specific nature of the borderland.
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The period of the Second World War affected all the aspects of social life in Poland, including the Church community, which, like the whole nation, suffered enormous losses in people as well as in the material and spiritual dimensions. This paper shows those issues on a microscale taking the Żurawica parish as an example. It discusses issues connected with demographic changes, material losses and most of all, it presents the problems in pastoral work faced by the priests working in that parish.
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After World War II, the Church both in the Diocese of Przemyśl and throughout Poland had to face with a multitude of new issues. The ecclesiastical situation on the above-mentioned area was even more difficult considering the specific character of political and social circumstances, which firstly caused dividing the diocese by a military cordon and secondly created the state of temporariness connected with the activity of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA). No one needs to be convinced that apart from population and material loss, each war wreaks great havoc in terms of morality, and restoring stabilisation in such a delicate matter entails immense effort on the part of clergy. One of the ways to engage in pastoral work in this area are missions and retreats, to which the present article is devoted. Its purpose is to depict consicely the efforts of priests who organized spiritual excerises for members of their parishes, very often in the face of material and organizational problems, and most of all the obstacles posed by the communist system. Additionally, the author focuses on the requirements for preachers made by diocesan authorities and presents a general outline of missions in 18 chosen parishes of the Diocese of Przemyśl. What is more, lots of attention is devoted to closed retreats.
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