Katecheza i jej znaczenie dla współczesnej rodziny

The present article deals with the issue of religious education and its meaning for a contemporary Polish family. The author focused on the crisis in a Polish family, which is mainly due to abandoning God and His commandments. Yet, he points out that children, youth and adults’ religious education is a great help for families. Thanks to it, people can create a suitable hierarchy of values, which will help in versatile development of both adolescent and adult man. Religious education should be first directed to parents themselves, as their children’s faith develops on the ground of their faith. Another important factor is the fact that some people got incomplete religious education in their childhood, and being adult, they need to transform their traditional religiousness into a conscious one. Moreover, the adult need help in problems appearing at different life stages. The author reminds that the religious education for parents should take care of spiritual background ( sacramental life), doctrinal background ( faith broadening), as well as physical background (health care and relax). Such religious education should take into account their faith extent. Thus, it ought to be run on different levels, such as: reevangelization, faith and religious knowledge development and preparing to missionary activity.