Egzorcyzmy w obrzędach sakramentu chrztu z Rituale Romanum 1952 i ksiąg posoborowych

Abstract

Exorcisms have always performed the very important role at the Roman Catholic Church. Their participation not only in ceremonies of the sacrament of baptism, but also in many other sacramentals and liturgical activities is attesting to it. The question about the legitimacy, the shape and the place of exorcisms in ceremonies of baptism is a question about understanding the secret of the evil actually, question about its presence in the world and about relation between the Satan as the personal evil the man and the world. This problem comes down to the issue: to what extent the man by the original sin preserved the God’s image in himself and to what extent is remaining in force of Satan. Pre-conciliar exorcisms included in ceremonies of baptism of adults and ceremonies of baptism of children are in the considerable majority very much old, since they come from Galesian Sacramentary. They were used by the Church from immemorial time, copied for next rituals. The author is portraying the essence of the exorcism in RITUALE ROMANUM from 1952 and post-conciliar books, but is also asking questions about the reform conducted after the II Vatican council which so much reduced the number of exorcisms and almost ousted them from ceremonies, but especially ceremonies of the sacrament of baptism, where they had their place since immemorial time. Retained baptismal exorcisms were completely deprived of their primitive imperative form, but replaced new composition, which, it is sometimes very hard to see as the real exorcism. Whether it means that the contemporary mankind isn’t already liable to destructive takings for the master of this world - of Satan? Whether contemporary talking about demons is an outdated sign of superstitions and former beliefs from so-called “dark ages”?