Matka Jezusa w nauczaniu i tradycji apostolskiej wzorem współczesnej katechezy maryjnej

Abstract

This paper attempts to answer the question about the model of Marian catechesis in our times. Modern-day Marian catechesis should be – following the way similar to the Apostolic and Patristic catechesis – Biblical, Christological, ecclesial and anthropological, i.e. faithful and loyal to God and the man. It can not be mawkish and exalted or based only on emotions and popular piety. It calls for the Biblical and Patristic deepening, i.e. for professional interpretation and revision of the texts of the Old and New Testament that refer to the person of Jesus’s Mother. We should also go to the Fathers of the Church and the great Marian theologians who were eulogists of the Mother of the Word, nor we must forget about the development of Marian tradition in art and culture, i.e. about Marian inculturation. A good example of this is the cult of Jesus’s Mother in the polish lands where knights, as early as in the 15th century, sang a Marian song Bogurodzica (Mother of God) before the Battle of Grunwald (First Battle of Tannenberg). Our Carmen Patrium is the first Biblically and culturally deepened Marian catechesis. Keywords

Keywords

• Mary in the Mystery of Christ and the Church
• Marian catechesis
• Marian tradition and devotion
• Marian inculturation