Sobriety as the main goal and task of Maximilian Sobriety Movement

Abstract

Church for the sake of man, for his development of the whole dimension of corporeal and spiritual life and the realization of fully evangelic life, according to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and in the face of the growing alcoholism, conducts various sobriety activities. One of these activities is the St. Maximilian Kolbe Sobriety Movement which is operating in parishes, reactivated by the Polish Episcopate in 1982 at Jasna Gora, whose aim is to fight against the spread of drunkenness and propagation of the sobriety in shaping human dignity, love, freedom and responsibility. MRT is a living response to the Church in Poland at the request of two great Poles: Servant of God Father-Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, to whom the sobriety subject of the Polish Nation was particularly close. He used to say: “by the abstinence of all priests to the sobriety of the whole nation,” and at the request of St. John Paul II, expressed to the Poles on 23 X 1978 year – to effectively oppose the customs threatening human, his family and the nation.