Thursday, December 5, 2013
Matthew 5, 46-48 + CSDC and CV
(CV 7b) To desire the common good and strive
towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. To take a stand for
the common good is on the one hand to be solicitous for, and on the other hand
to avail oneself of, that complex of institutions that give structure to the
life of society, juridically, civilly, politically and culturally, making it the
pĆ³lis, or “city”. The more we strive to secure a common good
corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours, the more effectively we love
them.
CSDC 13a. This document is an act of service on
the part of the Church to the women and men of our time, to whom she offers
the legacy of her social doctrine, according to that style of dialogue by which
God himself, in his only-begotten Son made man, “addresses men as his friends
(cf. Ex 33:11; Jn 15:14-15) and moves among them (cf. Bar 3:38)”[14].
Drawing inspiration from the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, this document too places “man considered whole and
entire, with body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will” [15] as the
key to its whole exposition.
Notes: [14] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Dei
Verbum, 2: AAS 58 (1966), 818. [15] Second Vatican Ecumenical
Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 3: AAS 58 (1966),
1026.
[46] For if you
love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax
collectors do the same? [47] And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual
about that? Do not the pagans do the same? [48] So be perfect, just as your
heavenly Father is perfect.
CSDC 83. The
first recipient of the Church's social doctrine is the Church community in its
entire membership, because everyone has social responsibilities that must be
fulfilled. The conscience is called by this social teaching to recognize
and fulfil the obligations of justice and charity in society. This doctrine is
a light of moral truth that inspires appropriate responses according to the
vocation and ministry of each Christian. In the tasks of evangelization, that
is to say, of teaching, catechesis and formation that the Church's social
doctrine inspires, it is addressed to every Christian, each according to the
competence, charisms, office and mission of proclamation that is proper to each
one[127]. This social doctrine implies as
well responsibilities regarding the building, organization and functioning of
society, that is to say, political, economic and administrative obligations —
obligations of a secular nature — which belong to the lay faithful, not to
priests or religious[128]. These responsibilities belong to the laity in a
distinctive manner, by reason of the secular condition of their state of life,
and of the secular nature of their vocation[129]. By fulfilling these
responsibilities, the lay faithful put the Church's social teaching into action
and thus fulfil the Church's secular mission[130].
Notes:
[127] Cf. Catechism
of the Catholic Church, 2039. [128] Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,
2442. [129] Cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
Christifideles Laici, 15: AAS 81 (1989), 413; Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 31: AAS 57
(1965), 37. [130] Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution
Gaudium et Spes, 43: AAS 58 (1966), 1061-1064; Paul VI, Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 81: AAS 59 (1967), 296-297.
[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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