Przejawy ludowej pobożności w polskim nurcie pasyjnym

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2013
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Wydawnictwo Muzyczne Polihymnia
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Folk piety is an authentic experience of religiosity during the liturgy and non-liturgical services, as well as in private life. It penetrates everyday life of the common people who oft en do not understand religious doctrine, so they interpret the truth of the Christian faith in their own way. As a result, a peculiar folk religious consciousness has been created. This consciousness has been manifesting in specific practices of piety that have been approved by the Church and eventually assimilated with Catholicism. The reform of the liturgy which took place in the twentieth century introduced the vernacular liturgy and made it more comprehensible to the people. However, it has not eliminated folk religious practices that are culture-forming dimension. The subject matter of the Passion has an important place in Polish folk piety. Since the Middle Ages, one could note many signs of the folk piety in Polish passion trend. The e cross as a symbol of the Saviour’s suffering appeared in legends of saints. It was also the inspiration for the passion church services and the passion songs. The e medieval liturgical dramas evolved into the passion plays as a natural complement to the liturgy on the basis of people’s creativity. In Polish passion trend an important role played the activity of the guardians of the Holy Sepulchre called Bożogrobcy as well as the activities of the religious brotherhoods associated with monastic churches, among others the Archfraternity of the Passion, the Brotherhood of St. Roch, and the flagellants associated with fraternities. The e fact of adoption and adaptation of ancient customs by the Church in the seventeenth century closely connected Polish rites with the Catholic religion. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the development of the passion piety was supported by the veneration of the saints connected with the worship of the holy relics, which was common especially in the sanctuaries. The first and most important of them was Kalwaria Zebrzydowska to which people in great numbers and willingly were making pilgrimages and were attending religious services walking down the Calvary paths and singing the Calvary songs. These songs have become ritual songs here and a carrier of the passion of worship. The religiousness of the nineteenth century was characterized by belief in the miraculous power of the cross as the climax of the martyrdom of Christ and the centre of salutary events, so statues of the Passion and roadside crosses were worshipped. Polish passion folk piety being formed during many centuries is a complex and very interesting phenomenon. Many of its signs have influenced religious rituals what has been reflected in specific human behaviors, beliefs, prayers and songs. Some practices completely disappeared, other have had a form of relics, and some have survived (e.g. pucheroki, hanging of Judas, washing of feet on the Holy Thursday, the adoration of the Holy Sepulchre) due to the intergenerational oral tradition and strong family ties which are directly responsible for transmission and continuity of tradition. Thus, the development of the passion trend has consequently brought various forms of worship, while the motives of Passion have permanently become a part of Polish religiousness and have penetrated almost all its aspects.
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pobożność ludowa, nabożeństwa pasyjne, bractwa, ludowe pieśni pasyjne, kalwarie, folk piety, passion service, fraternities, passion folk songs, calvaries
Citation
"Annales Lublinenses pro Musica Sacra", 2013, nr 4, s. 153-167
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