Matthew 28, 16-20 + CSDC and CV
(CV 45a) Striving to meet the deepest moral needs of the person also has important
and beneficial repercussions at the level of economics. The economy needs
ethics in order to function correctly — not any ethics whatsoever, but an
ethics which is people-centred. Today we hear much talk of ethics in the world
of economy, finance and business. Research centres and seminars in business
ethics are on the rise; the system of ethical certification is spreading
throughout the developed world as part of the movement of ideas associated with
the responsibilities of business towards society. Banks are proposing “ethical”
accounts and investment funds.
Creating the conditions
that will allow every person to satisfy his integral vocation
CSDC 522b.Thanks to the “first fruits of the Spirit” (Rom
8:23), Christians become “capable of discharging the new law of love (cf. Rom
8:1-11). Through this Spirit, who is ‘the pledge of our inheritance' (Eph
1:14), the whole man is renewed from within, even to the achievement of ‘the
redemption of the body' (Rom 8:23)”.[1109] In this sense the Church's
social doctrine shows how the moral basis of all social action consists in the
human development of the person and identifies the norm for social action
corresponding to humanity's true good and as efforts aimed at creating the
conditions that will allow every person to satisfy his integral vocation.
Notes: [1109] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium
et Spes, 22: AAS 58 (1966), 1043.
(Mt 28, 16-20) Make disciples of all nations
[16] The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the
mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. [17] When they saw him, they
worshiped, but they doubted. [18] Then Jesus approached and said to them,
"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. [19] Go, therefore,
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all that
I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the
age."
CSDC 54. Jesus Christ reveals to us that “God is
love” (1 Jn 4:8) and he teaches us that “the fundamental law of
human perfection, and consequently of the transformation of the world, is the
new commandment of love. He assures those who trust in the love of God that
the way of love is open to all people and that the effort to establish a
universal brotherhood will not be in vain”[66]. This law is called to become
the ultimate measure and rule of every dynamic related to human relations. In
short, it is the very mystery of God, Trinitarian Love, that is the basis of
the meaning and value of the person, of social relations, of human activity in
the world, insofar as humanity has received the revelation of this and a share
in it through Christ in his Spirit. CSDC 56. God's promise and Jesus Christ's resurrection raise in Christians the
well-founded hope that a new and eternal dwelling place is prepared for every
human person, a new earth where justice abides (cf. 2 Cor 5:1-2; 2 Pet
3:13). “Then, with death conquered, the children of God will be raised in
Christ and what was sown in weakness and corruption will be clothed in
incorruptibility: charity and its works will remain and all of creation, which
God made for man, will be set free from its bondage to vanity”[68]. This hope,
rather than weaken, must instead strengthen concern for the work that is needed
in the present reality.
Notes: [66] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral
Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 38: AAS 58 (1966), 1055-1056. [68]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes,
39: AAS 58 (1966), 1057.
[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)]
This is the end of the comment to the "Gospel according to Matthew"
In the next days we’ll start posting daily comments to the “Gospel according to Mark” taken by the text and the statements
of the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” and of “Caritas in Veritate”
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