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Step 8: Romuald Jaworski (Poland)

Person and Love
Not only the reading of the already presented texts by Gladys K. Mwiti,
Stephen P. Greggo and Andrey Lorgus, but also deep associations which
were evoked by the pictures by Karl Vollmer and Kathrin Feser, moved
me to consider the person as a loving and loved being. Love is the most
important ability and characteristic of a person. With God, for whom
existence and being are the same, love is a sign of his identity.
Romuald Jaworski,
Being a person is expressed by intentional actions, by relationships. The dr. hab., psycholo-
most characteristic intentional action is namely love. It can therefore be gist, psychotherapist,
said that a person is expressed in love. For the person, love is a gift and a supervisor, catholic
task (an obligation). priest, professor at
the Cardinal Stefan
The importance which love has in discovering the truth about God and Wyszynski University
ourselves is shown by a number of biblical texts. “God so loved the world in Warsaw, for sverla
…” (Jn 3,16), “As the father has loved me, I have likewise loved you. Re- years president of the
main in my love!” (Jn 15,9), “ For the love of God is poured out in our Association of Chri-
hearts by the Holy Spirit” (Ro 5,5), “God is love” (1 Jn 4,16). When the stian Psychologists
apostle Paul characterises human life, he says: “And now these three re- (ACP) in Poland.
main: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor 13, He is the author of
13-14). Being a person means the ability to love and to be loved. Only the several books and
relationship of love will provide the equipment of the human being on articles in the field of
the path through the gates of death into eternal life. The relationships of psychology of religi-
love will last and will be purified. on and pastoral psy-
chology.
Love, as a personal act, naturally involves all spheres of human life: the so-
matic (“So now they are no longer two, but one flesh”), the psycho-social romualdjaworski@wp.pl
(“No-one has greater love than this: that he lays down his life for his fri-
ends.”) and the soulish (“As my father loves me, I love you; remain in my Articles by Romuald:
love”). These spheres are taken into consideration by G.K. Mwiti in her http://emcapp.ignis.
thoughts (page 8). de/1/#/34
A person loves, but has at the same time the right to be loved. Love can http://emcapp.ignis.
be verified. The test of love is the ability to dedicate oneself and the rea- de/1/#/46
diness to suffer for the person loved. This relationship of love is fulfilled http://emcapp.ignis.
most completely in the suffering and on the cross of Jesus Christ. It can de/3/#/4
therefore be said that the splendour of a personal life is expressed in suf- http://emcapp.ignis.
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Karol Wojtyla wrote the book “Love and Responsibility”. In it he em-
phasised the link between these two experiences of the human person.
Saint Exupery says in „The Little Prince“: “Throughout your life you are
responsible for what you have come to know intimately”. Bearing respon-
sibility for the person whom I love enables me to transcend myself and
concentrate on others. It is a special possession of oneself that is com-
bined with the freedom to sacrifice oneself. The more a person opens
himself towards a second person in love, the greater he becomes.

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