Thursday, November 28, 2013
Matthew 5, 9-12 + CSDC and CV
(CV 5a) Charity is love received and given. It is “grace” (cháris). Its
source is the wellspring of the Father's love for the Son, in the Holy Spirit.
Love comes down to us from the Son. It is creative love, through which we have
our being; it is redemptive love, through which we are recreated. Love is
revealed and made present by Christ (cf. Jn 13:1) and “poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit” (Rom 5:5). As the objects of God's love, men and women
become subjects of charity, they are called to make themselves instruments of
grace, so as to pour forth God's charity and to weave networks of charity.
CSDC 10. The document is presented as an
instrument for the moral and pastoral discernment of the complex events that
mark our time; as a guide to inspire, at the individual and collective levels,
attitudes and choices that will permit all people to look to the future with
greater trust and hope; as an aid for the faithful concerning the Church's
teaching in the area of social morality. From this there can spring new
strategies suited to the demands of our time and in keeping with human needs
and resources. But above all there can arise the motivation to rediscover the
vocation proper to the different charisms within the Church that are destined
to the evangelization of the social order, because “all the members of
the Church are sharers in this secular dimension”[9]. In short, the text is
proposed as an incentive for dialogue with all who sincerely desire the good of
mankind.
Notes: [9] John Paul II, Post-Synodal
Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 15: AAS 81 (1989),
414.
[9] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called
children of God. [10] Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of
righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [11] Blessed are you when
they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you
(falsely) because of me. [12] Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be
great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
CSDC 492. The
peace of Christ is in the first place reconciliation with the Father, which is
brought about by the ministry Jesus entrusted to his disciples and which begins
with the proclamation of peace: “Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!”' (Lk
10:5; cf. Rom 1:7). Peace is then
reconciliation with one's brothers and sisters, for in the prayer that
Jesus taught us, the “Our Father”,
the forgiveness that we ask of God is linked to the forgiveness that we grant
to our brothers and sisters: “Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our
debtors” (Mt 6:12). With this twofold reconciliation Christians can become
peacemakers and therefore participate in the Kingdom of God, in accordance with
what Jesus himself proclaims in the Beatitudes: “Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God” (Mt 5:9).
[Initials and Abbreviations.- CSDC: Pontifical
Council for Justice And Peace, Compendium
of the Social Doctrine of the Church; - SDC:
Social Doctrine of the Church; - CV: Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in truth)]
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