Friday, May 23, 2014
Mark 6, 1-13 + CSDC and CV
Mark 6
Mark 6, 1-13 +
CSDC and CV
CV 73b. Given the media's fundamental importance in engineering changes in
attitude towards reality and the human person, we must reflect carefully on
their influence, especially in regard to the ethical-cultural dimension of
globalization and the development of peoples in solidarity. Mirroring what is
required for an ethical approach to globalization and development, so too the
meaning and purpose of the media must be sought within an anthropological
perspective. This means that they can have a civilizing effect not
only when, thanks to technological development, they increase the possibilities
of communicating information, but above all when they are geared towards a
vision of the person and the common good that reflects truly universal values.
CSDC 569a. A characteristic context for the exercise of
discernment can be found in the functioning of the democratic system,
understood by many today in agnostic and relativistic terms that lead to the
belief that truth is something determined by the majority and conditioned by
political considerations[1190].
Notes: [1190] Cf. John Paul II, Centesimus
Annus, 46: AAS 83 (1991), 850-851.
[1] He departed from there and came to his native place,
accompanied by his disciples. [2] When the sabbath came he began to teach in
the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, "Where
did this man get all this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty
deeds are wrought by his hands! [3] Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary,
and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters
here with us?" And they took offense at him. [4] Jesus said to them,
"A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his
own kin and in his own house." [5] So he was not able to perform any
mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on
them. [6] He was amazed at their lack of faith. He went around to the villages
in the vicinity teaching. [7] He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out
two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. [8] He instructed them
to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick - no food, no sack, no
money in their belts. [9] They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second
tunic. [10] He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until
you leave from there. [11] Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to
you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against
them." [12] So they went off and preached repentance. [13] They drove out
many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
CSDC 430. The covenant that God established with Abraham,
chosen to be “the father of a multitude of nations” (Gen 17:4), opens the way for the
human family to make a return to its Creator. The history of salvation
leads the people of Israel to believe that God's action was restricted to their
land. Little by little, however, the conviction grows that God is at work also
among other nations (cf. Is 19:18-25). The Prophets would announce, for
the eschatological times, a pilgrimage of the nations to the Lord's temple and
an era of peace among the peoples (cf. Is 2:2-5, 66:18-23). Israel,
scattered in exile, would become definitively aware of its role as a witness to
the one God (cf. Is 44:6-8), the Lord of the world and of the history of
the nations (cf. Is 44:24-28).
[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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