Marcin Bogdan: The Weight of Symbols

Therefore, symbols are so crucial both in the national and spiritual sphere. State symbols, specified as flag, emblem or anthem, build community and national identity. spiritual symbols aid to express spiritual truths that cannot be expressed in a descriptive, literal way. 1 specified symbol in the Catholic Church is the Christmas Nativity scene, showing Christian values specified as humility, poverty, love, the closeness of God with man. The shed has over 800 years of tradition. On the night of December 25, 1223, close the mountain village of Greccio, Italy, St. Francis first decided to “recreate” the cave of Jesus' Birth in Bethlehem. This thought was justified by Saint Francis as follows: “I want to see with my own eyes, as tangible as possible, bitter hardships which he had to endure even as a small kid erstwhile he was laid in a manger with a ox and a donkey at his side erstwhile he was laid on hayIt’s okay. ” A symbol to see what is invisible but felt.

Today, the Church "hidden" a nativity scene in the walls of sacral objects, and if it shows them in public space, it is frequently in the form of controversial, modernist visions, far from the symbolism indicated by St. Francis, the crowning example of which was the nativity scene in St. Peter's Square for the pontificate of the pope nomen omen Francis. If the Church loses the meaning of symbols, the faithful will lose the chance to admit Christ in breaking bread. This is why the initiative of president Karol Nawrocki to set the Christmas Shopka in front of the Presidential Palace in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw is invaluable. The structure of the unchangeable is simply a gift of the city of Zakopane and spiritual symbolism intertwines with national and regional symbols. Inside the unchangeable there was a coat of arms, depicting on the red background a white eagle with a golden band through its wings. This Herb refers straight to the tradition of the erstwhile Kraków Voivodeship in the First Republic.

Soon we will celebrate the feast of the Lord's Sacrifice, commonly called the feast of Our woman of Gromnic. Even a twelve years ago, during the Holy Mass, the Light of the altar was passed on to the faithful through the priest and altar priests so that the faithful would bear the Light of Christ from the altar to their homes. Today, the symbol of this feast has become the crack of lighters, which the faithful light themselves candles and this secular light is in the other direction – towards the altar. president Karol Nawrocki feels and understands the importance of this kind of symbolism. That's why the president ordered the ceremonial Change of the Flag over the Presidential Palace. The Flag Change Ceremony will take place from 3 January all week all Saturday at 11:45 p.m. The first 16 flags from the Presidential Palace will go to schools in all 16 provinces. The next will scope local communities in different regions of the country. Just as the Light of Christ spreads from the altar to strengthen people in the religion and nearness of God, so the national flags will spread from the Presidential Palace to the offices, institutions and local communities to strengthen the national identity of Poles. You can light your own candle with a lighter, you can sew your own flag or you can buy it at the store. But the actual spiritual or national community creates and strengthens through communication symbolized by the transmission of signs from the origin of this community.

In the Polish legal system, the president has extended competence. He is the guardian of the Constitution, which is why it is so crucial that the president of Nawrocki veto laws incompatible with the Constitution and direct his own legislative initiatives to the Sejm. But the president is besides the highest typical of the state and the guarantor of the continuity of power. That is why the initiatives of president Karol Nawrocki concerning the setting up of the President's Palace of the Christmas School and the establishment of the Ceremony of Flag Changes, concerning symbols and not laws, will go back to past as 1 of the most crucial presidential decisions, and Karol Nawrocki himself entered the pantheon of the largest Polish statesmen.

In Bolesławec, masked perpetrators took the figure of Baby Jesus from Christmas Creed and then hanged her on the staged gallows. The prosecution refused to analyse because, as the prosecutor Sebastian Wozniak argued: “The object of spiritual worship was not publically insulted. It was just a small Jesus doll.It’s okay. ” I wonder what D.A. Wozniak would have done if individual had hung a puppet “just imitating Donald Tusk” on the gallows. Would the prosecutor besides refuse to analyse whether he would order the police to lead the perpetrator, handcuffed together, into custody. A nation without symbols relating to values may not survive. The nation of anti-value symbols is doomed to destruction.That's the weight of the Symbols.

Mr Bogdan

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