Działalność parafialnej rady duszpasterskiej a poprawianie jakości przepowiadania homilijnego

Abstract

The reason of existing parish pastoral council is providing, in institutional way, cooperation of lay people in development of pastoral activity typical for the clergy. The article discusses the matter of parishioners’ help in amending the homilies quality, which is reserved only for the priesthood. For this reason, the elements of proper preparation the homily, in the perspective of possible help from the members of the council were discussed. One of them is suitable updating of preaching God’s Word, adequate to the problems, spiritual needs and the level of audience. The role of parish pastoral council in the feld of updating the Gospel seems to be inevitable. Thanks to the meeting of the council, the priests can not only to gain some information on preached homilies and they have a chance to know the spiritual and intellectual level of people, language, interests, present problems and urgent needs of their parishioners. A special place for updating the Word of God is parish biblical club. It is one of the many initiatives ftting in biblical animation of all ministry, which has to be the priority task of parish pastoral council.