Capelania a serviço da humanidade

Abstract

For a great majority of people to talk of chaplaincy is to refer to the work of spiritual assistance to hospitalized people. The goal of this research is to open the spectrum and redimension the work field of chaplaincy. It is to humanize humanity which is distancing itself day after day from helping, supporting, consoling and fraternally loving. In this work we seek to recover the human dimension through spirituality, through a referential of help facing the chaos which humanity is feeling. It is to offer a better comprehension of the importance of the service of chaplaincy to help and recover the humanization of humanity. Thus, the first chapter develops the origin and the foundations of chaplaincy. It deals with the issue of the evangelical foundation of chaplaincy, as well as with the profile of the chaplain. The second part discourses about the multiple modalities in which chaplaincy aims to work, conceptualizing each of these areas of work and not losing from view the need to exercise this office based on theology. Finally, it presents the benefits of faith related to the exercise of chaplaincy. The third chapter reflects about how to organize the chaplaincy work and its functioning within its area of work.