The time span that reaches from the time before the pandemics over the first wave of the Coronavirus and all the way to the second can help us understand the resilience connected to the life of the Church and pastoral marking. To understand the present moment, we should examine the pastoral life and work prior to the pandemics. For this, we are going to focus on the religious community and preaching. In 2012, the document entitled „Pridite in poglejte“ [Come and See] brought us the Slovenian pastoral plan. First and foremost, the pandemics stroke the religious community, the living religious community,
which is the heart of the pastoral theology. Preaching moved from churches and classrooms to website apps, which became recommendable overnight. We get some feedback information from the questionnaire prepared in the time of the pandemics by Prof. Vinko Potočnik, Ph.D. Even though we are still in the middle of the process of ,healing‘, we have already begun to wonder what the pandemics with its resilience brought us and what it carried away. One of the positive things the pandemics brought is certainly ,the birth of a domestic (family) Church‘, the evaluation of small religious communities, and the place of the media in the process of new evangelisation.
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