Saturday, December 14, 2013
Matthew 6, 34 + CSDC and CV
(CV 10) A fresh reading of Populorum Progressio, more than forty years after its
publication, invites us to remain faithful to its message of charity and truth,
viewed within the overall context of Paul VI's specific magisterium and, more
generally, within the tradition of the Church's social doctrine. Moreover, an
evaluation is needed of the different terms in which the problem of development
is presented today, as compared with forty years ago. The correct viewpoint,
then, is that of the Tradition of the apostolic faith [13] , a patrimony both ancient
and new, outside of which Populorum Progressio
would be a document without roots — and issues concerning development would
be reduced to merely sociological data.
Notes: [13] Cf. Benedict XVI, Address to the Inauguration
of the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the
Caribbean (Aparecida, 13 May 2007).
CSDC 64b. The supernatural is not to be understood as
an entity or a place that begins where the natural ends, but as the raising of
the natural to a higher plane. In this way nothing of the created or the human
order is foreign to or excluded from the supernatural or theological order of
faith and grace, rather it is found within it, taken on and elevated by it. “In
Jesus Christ the visible world which God created for man (cf. Gen
1:26-30) — the world that, when sin entered, ‘was subjected to futility' (Rom
8:20; cf. Rom 8:19-22) — recovers again its original link with the
divine source of Wisdom and Love. Indeed, ‘God so loved the world that he gave
his only Son' (Jn 3:16). As this link was broken in the man Adam, so in
the Man Christ it was reforged (cf. Rom 5:12-21)”[83].
Notes: [83] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptor
Hominis, 8: AAS 71 (1979), 270.
[34] Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take
care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
CSDC 260. In his preaching, Jesus teaches
man not to be enslaved by work. Before all else, he must be concerned about his
soul; gaining the whole world is not the purpose of his life (cf. Mk
8:36). The treasures of the earth, in fact, are consumed, while those in heaven
are imperishable. It is on these latter treasures that men and women must set
their hearts (cf. Mt 6:19-21). Work, then, should not be a source of
anxiety (cf. Mt 6:25,31,34). When people are worried and upset about
many things, they run the risk of neglecting the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness (cf. Mt 6:33), which they truly need. Everything else,
work included, will find its proper place, meaning and value only if it is
oriented to this one thing that is necessary and that will never be taken away
(cf. Lk 10:40-42).
[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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