Klaipėdos universitetas

In this article, I examine the various ways Christmas and New Year greetings were expressed during a time of relatively modest technological diversity. The objective is to explore the array of greetings customs prevalent in interwar Lithuania, focusing on two specific practices: New Year visits, and the exchange of visiting cards. This study sheds a light on the subject by examining visiting cards preserved in archives, publications on etiquette, and interwar Lithuanian periodicals.

The visit of Pope Francis as the Supreme Pontiff to Lithuania was noted as a valuable phenomenon. Modern young people, which individually try to enrich their identity, had an opportunity to perceive and internalize this valuable phenomenon at different levels. The object of the research is a visit of the Pontiff as a valuable phenomenon. The subject of the research is a valuable youth’s position through the internalization of the mentioned valuable phenomenon. The aim of the article is a revelation of attributes of a valuable youth’s position through the internalization of the visit of the Pontiff as a valuable phenomenon. The tasks of the research are as follows: to discuss the valuable position of young people in relation to the essence and meaning of the Pontiff’s visit; to highlight their emotional experience during the visit; to characterize the valuable youth’s position in terms of their aspirations and behavior. The type of the research: this is a semi-deep and pilot study. Methodological and epistemological principles are as follows: the paradigm of universal development, idealism, humanism, existential phenomenology and neo-Thomism.