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190 HENRYK ŁUCZAKto catechesis. The apprehension of cakchesis has varied over the ages but its aim has remainedthe same: it is to make people: „fully mature, with the fullness of Christ himself (Ep. 4.13).The Church has always understood the need for and the importance of catechesis and realizedthat cntechetic work is crucial to the future of the whole Catholic nation as well as that of theindividuaJ. It comes as not surprise, then, that also in our time catechesis occupies the foremostplace in pastorał ministry of the Church.In the present Polish situation, marked by both spontaneous and directed secularization,catechesis as seen in the 1971 program.me still bears the stamp of authentic Church ministryto the young. Its basie goal is to bring the participants to the salutary meeting with Jesus Christ.From the point of view of theology, the catechesis is trinita.rian, Christocentric, ecclesiasticand Marian; in anthropological terms, it is personal, national and apologetic. The main obstacleto catechesis lies in the inadequate preparation of catechists fork work with the young. A highproportion of Polish catechists, trained for catochesis in the old style, implement an intellectualisticconception of catechesis, trying to convey the maximum amount of informationabout the Christian doctrine.