TY - JOUR
TI - Ritual and Family: Preparation for First Communion in Pamiętaj abyś dzień święty święcił (Remember to Keep Holy the Lord’s Day) by Maciej Cuske and Komunia (Communion) by Anna Zamecka
AU - Zwierzchowski, Piotr
TI - Ritual and Family: Preparation for First Communion in Pamiętaj abyś dzień święty święcił (Remember to Keep Holy the Lord’s Day) by Maciej Cuske and Komunia (Communion) by Anna Zamecka
AB - 
	The present paper discusses two Polish film documentaries taking up the subject of First Communion: Pamiętaj abyś dzień święty święcił (Remember to Keep Holy the Lord’s Day, 2008) by Maciej Cuske, and Komunia (Communion, 2016) by Anna Zamecka. Both films reflect on contemporary Polish religiosity and on the social functioning and perception of the sacrament and ritual of First Communion. They also address the issues of the social and mental maturity of the child receiving the sacrament, and the ceremony’s significance for the life of the family. The paper analyses and 

	interprets the films as the directors’ personal commentaries, as chronicles of individual stories, 

	and as attempts at social diagnoses. 
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 51, Issue 2
PY - 2018
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 129
EP - 138
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.18.009.9749
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/ritual-and-family-preparation-for-first-communion-in-pamietaj-abys-dzien-swiety-swiecil-remember-to-keep-holy-the-lords-day-by-maciej-cuske-and-komunia-communion-by-anna-zamecka
KW - Polish cinema
KW - documentary films
KW - Polish customs
KW - First Communion
KW - contemporary Polish religiosity