54th Ecclesiology Week: The Church of the Saints

The Ecclesiological Week will be held at the Catholic University of Lublin for the 54th time. The theme of this year's proceedings will be "The Church of the Saints". The event, which will be held from 17th to 19th May 2022, in room 1031 of the John Paul II College (10th floor), will be hosted by the Academic Circle of Theologians.

Holiness, is as John Paul II wrote, "the aspiration to the 'high measure' of the ordinary Christian life". As he explained, it should not be misunderstood that this ideal of perfection is "a vision of an extraordinary life, accessible only to a select few 'geniuses' of holiness. The ways of holiness are manifold and adapted to every calling" (Novo millennio ineunte).

During this year's ecclesiological conference, students and lecturers of the Catholic University of Lublin as well as guests from Polish and foreign universities will analyze the topic of holiness from various perspectives - from the biblical perspective, from the tradition of the Church, from the ecumenical perspective, moral theology and history of art. Scientific proceedings will begin with the Holy Mass in the Academic Church of the Catholic University of Lublin, which on the first day of the session will be chaired by the Grand Chancellor of KUL, Archbishop Stanisław Budzik.

The program of the event consist of many interesting lectures, incl. "Sanctity - Eternal Rest? What are the redeemed engaged in?”, Delivered by Fr. Zdzisław Kijas OFMConv from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Saint Bonaventure in Rome; "Lay theology and synodality as the way of living out the universal call to holiness" - a topic prepared by Fr. prof. Andrzej Proniewski from the University of Bialystok or a lecture by Fr. prof. Tadeusz Zadykowicz from the Catholic University of Lublin about controversial images of saints.