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English annotation The Process of a Parish Reform of the Prague Archdiocese A Parish stayed still the base cell of the Church after the Second Vatican Council. There are quite lots of alternatives of movements in the Church, which are out of the Church structure but they co-operate with parishes and create new opportunities of an intensive experience of the faith in there. But after all, the Parish stays the only place for the majority of the Catholics, where they can live their faith through their life. Since 2002 the process of the Parish reform has begun in the Prague Archdiocese. The aim of the process is to establish parish communities, which will match the principal characteristics of the Church: leiturgia - worship and communion (sacraments), martyria - to bear testimony, diakonia - service a koinonia - active community relationships. The principle is missio - mission. Many parishes in the Prague Archdiocese had not been meeting the requirements for a long time. The reason was a small number of parishioners in retiring age and an absence of some age-groups in a parish or limitation of the parish's life to celebration and communion (leiturgia). The other reason was also a priest, who used to be in charge of several small groups of the faithful and an unsatisfactory parish structure, which has been... |
