Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Mark 3, 31-35 + CSDC and CV
Mark 3, 31-35 +
CSDC and CV
CV 69a. The challenge of development today is closely linked to technological
progress, with its astounding applications in the field of biology.
Technology — it is worth emphasizing — is a profoundly human reality, linked to
the autonomy and freedom of man. In technology we express and confirm the
hegemony of the spirit over matter. “The human spirit, ‘increasingly free of
its bondage to creatures, can be more easily drawn to the worship and
contemplation of the Creator'” [150].
Notes: [150] Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 41:
loc. cit., 277-278; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral
Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et Spes,
57.
CSDC 562a. Professionals in the field of media are not the
only people with ethical duties. Those who make use of the media also have
obligations. Media operators who try to meet their responsibilities deserve
audiences who are aware of their own responsibilities. The first duty of media
users is to be discerning and selective. Parents, families and the Church have
precise responsibilities they cannot renounce. For those who work, in various
capacities, in the area of social communications, the warning of St. Paul rings
out loud and clear: “Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the
truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another ... Let no evil talk
come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the
occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear” (Eph 4:25, 29).
[31] His mother and his brothers arrived. Standing outside
they sent word to him and called him. [32] A crowd seated around him told him,
"Your mother and your brothers (and your sisters) are outside asking for
you." [33] But he said to them in reply, "Who are my mother and (my)
brothers?" [34] And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,
"Here are my mother and my brothers. [35] (For) whoever does the will of
God is my brother and sister and mother."
CSDC 221. The family is present as the place where
communion — that communion so necessary for a society that is increasingly
individualistic — is brought about. It is the place where an authentic
community of persons develops and grows[490], thanks to the endless dynamism of
love, which is the fundamental dimension of human experience and which finds in
the family the privileged place for making itself known. “Love causes man to
find fulfilment through the sincere gift of self. To love means to give and to
receive something which can be neither bought nor sold, but only given freely
and mutually”[491]. It is thanks to love, the essential reality for defining
marriage and the family that every person — man and woman — is recognized,
accepted and respected in his dignity. From love arise relationships lived in
gratuitousness, which “by respecting and fostering personal dignity in each and
every one as the only basis for value ... takes the form of heartfelt
acceptance, encounter and dialogue, disinterested availability, generous
service and deep solidarity”[492]. The existence of families living this way
exposes the failings and contradictions of a society that is for the most part,
even if not exclusively, based on efficiency and functionality. By constructing
daily a network of interpersonal relationships, both internal and external, the
family is instead “the first and irreplaceable school of social life, and
example and stimulus for the broader community relationships marked by respect,
justice, dialogue and love”[493].
Notes:
[490] Cf. John
Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 18: AAS 74
(1982), 100-101. [491] John Paul II, Letter to Families Gratissimam Sane,
11: AAS 86 (1994), 883.[492] John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation
Familiaris Consortio, 43: AAS 74 (1982), 134. [493] John Paul II,
Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio, 43: AAS 74 (1982),
134.
[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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