Gift and mystery : on the fiftieth anniversary of my priestly ordination : John Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

x, 114 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm

Pope John Paul II reflects on the events of his life, on his vocation to the priesthood, and on the meaning of priesthood as gift and mystery

I/ At the beginning ... the mystery! -- The first signs of my vocation -- Studies at the Jagiellonian University -- The outbreak of the Second World War -- The theater of the living word

II/ My decision to enter the seminary -- Holidays as a seminarian -- Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha

III/ Influences on my vocation -- Family -- The Solvay plant -- Debniki parish: the Salesians -- The Carmelite Fathers -- Father Kazimierz Figlewicz -- The "Marian thread" -- Brother Saint Albert -- The experience of the war -- The sacrifices made by Polish priests -- Goodness experienced amid the harshness of war

IV/ A priest! -- Remembering a brother in the priestly vocation -- Veni, Creator Spiritus! -- The floor -- My First Mass -- Among the People of God

V/ Rome -- "Learning Rome" -- Pastoral perspectives -- The European horizon -- In the midst of immigrants -- The figure of Saint John Mary Vianney -- Heartfelt gratitude -- My return to Poland

VI/ Niegowic: A country parish -- At Saint Florian's in Cracow -- Scholarly work

VII/ To the Church in Poland, thank you! -- The presbyterate of Cracow -- The gift of lay people

VIII/ Who is the priest? -- Admirabile commercium! -- The priest and the Eucharist -- In persona Christi -- Mysterium fidei -- Christ, Priest and Victim

IX/ Being a priest today -- Humanity's profound expectations -- A minister of mercy -- A man in contact with God -- Called to holiness -- Cura animarum -- A man of the word -- Scholarly study -- Dialogue with contemporary thought

X/ To my brothers in the priesthood -- Pupilla oculi -- Deo gratias!