Rekolekcje szkolne. Istota i zadania

Abstract

Retreats are a well tested form of proclaiming the Gospel to youth. Their efficiency much depends on one condition: whether we refer to all the changes which take place in the Church and in the world. Among the changes that we have observed in Poland lately an important one is introducing catechesis to schools. This fact triggers the necessity of elaborating a new concept of retreat, a more suitable model for the present situation. Such attempt has been made by the members of the Homiletic School at the Liturgical Institute of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków together with the lay specialists (pedagogues, psychologists and therapists). As result a kind of school retreat has been worked out. The main features of such retreat are the following: the retreat is arranged by a team of religious and lay specialists; it refers to one school as a whole; it is of inductive, mystagogical, stimulating and diversified character.