Sunday, April 13, 2014
Matthew 27, 31-38 + CSDC and CV
(CV 43a) “The reality of human solidarity, which is a benefit for us, also imposes
a duty”[105]. Many people today would claim that they
owe nothing to anyone, except to themselves. They are concerned only with their
rights, and they often have great difficulty in taking responsibility for their
own and other people's integral development. Hence it is important to call for
a renewed reflection on how rights presuppose duties, if they are not to
become mere licence [106]. Nowadays we are witnessing a grave inconsistency.
On the one hand, appeals are made to alleged rights, arbitrary and
non-essential in nature, accompanied by the demand that they be recognized and
promoted by public structures, while, on the other hand, elementary and basic
rights remain unacknowledged and are violated in much of the world [107].
Notes: [105] Paul VI, Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 17: loc. cit., 265-266. [106] Cf. John Paul II, Message
for the 2003 World Day of Peace, 5: AAS
95 (2003), 343. [107] Cf. ibid.
CSDC 317a. Given
these impressive “new things” in the world of work, the Church's social
doctrine recommends first of all to avoid the error of insisting that the
current changes take place in a deterministic manner. The decisive factor
and “referee” of this complex phase of change is once more the human person,
who must remain the true protagonist of his work. He can and must take on in a
creative and responsible fashion the present innovations and re-organizations,
so that they lead to the growth of the person, the family, society and the
entire human family.[677]
Notes: [677] Cf.
John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 10: AAS 73
(1981), 600-602.
[31] And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of
the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him. [32]
As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon; this man they pressed
into service to carry his cross. [33] And when they came to a place called
Golgotha (which means Place of the Skull), [34] they gave Jesus wine to drink
mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink. [35] After
they had crucified him, they divided his garments by casting lots; [36] then
they sat down and kept watch over him there. [37] And they placed over his head
the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. [38] Two
revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his
left.
CSDC 195. The principle of solidarity requires
that men and women of our day cultivate a greater awareness that they are
debtors of the society of which they have become part. They are debtors
because of those conditions that make human existence liveable, and because of
the indivisible and indispensable legacy constituted by culture, scientific and
technical knowledge, material and immaterial goods and by all that the human condition
has produced. A similar debt must be recognized in the various forms of social
interaction, so that humanity's journey will not be interrupted but remain open
to present and future generations, all of them called together to share the
same gift in solidarity.
[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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