Założenia duszpasterskie księdza Piotra Halaka, proboszcza Parafii Gręboszów 1907-1931

Abstract

We can penetrate into the pastoral activity of Piotr Halak the person of the parish of Gręboszów by taking into consideration his ideas, methods, mediums, and results of his work. This article attempts to show his pastoral ideas, which in turn predetermined a choice of methods and the pastoral mediums. The analysis of the declarations of the parishionners written after the death of Piotr Halak, parochial chronicles, memoirs, reports exposed in the presence of the members of the Apostolic Union, perm its us to form ulate four pastoral ideas in the following aspects. 1. The spiritual life of the priests. 2. The religions practice of the parishionners. 3. The moral life of the parishionners. 4. The satisfaction of the material meeds of the parishionners. These ideas were the result of his own deliberations, they were closely related to the social, political and religious situations existing in the parish of Gręboszów at the time. The validity and quality of his ideas, as seen by their actuality and ability to satisfy the needs of the faithrul, resulted in the positive declarations of the parishionners, after his death. The fortieth anniversary of the death of Piotr Halak corresponds with 150-th anniversary of the Seminary in Tarnów, where his pastoral activity took root.