Elements of spirituality in blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

Abstract

The real Christian spirituality leads to the holiness as the highest sign of this spirituality. According to Carinal Primate Stefan Wyszyński was confirmed by the act of beatification. The cardinal showed loud and clear what the place in his life and ministration Church had. It appointed him plenty of tasks to fulfil in Poland. They were related to the world, community and a single human being. Stefan Wyszyński emphasized that the Church is a carrier of salvation. In a social teaching, he perceived the need of social issues’ solving. He connected the work that was focused on with the cross theology. Simultaneously, drawing attention to the fact that it started to make sense not only in a temporal dimension, but also in an eternal one. The recognizable characteristic of his spirituality is Mary who is, according to Cardinal, became not only the model of faith, hope, love and perfect unity with Jesus Christ, but also the reasonable obedience, prayer of worship, availability towards the God. According to Cardinal S. Wyszyński, the faith is power of nation and homeland. It was the significant factor to understand its spiritual history and ethos for him. He knew that those two great values: Church and Homeland, had a high price. That is why, he introduced for him and people, the concept of service that should be taken up. So, one has to disseminate and promote the idea of service and helping in a social life. What cannot be done is life in homeland arranged only in a way of consumerist conveniences.