Friday, June 20, 2014
Mark 10, 28-31 + CSDC and CV
Mark 10, 28-31 +
CSDC and CV
CV 4a. Because it is filled with truth, charity can
be understood in the abundance of its values, it can be shared and
communicated. Truth, in fact, is lógos which creates diá-logos,
and hence communication and communion. Truth, by enabling men and women to let go
of their subjective opinions and impressions, allows them to move beyond
cultural and historical limitations and to come together in the assessment of
the value and substance of things. Truth opens and unites our minds in the
lógos of love: this is the Christian proclamation and testimony of charity.
CSDC 8a. This document intends to present in a
complete and systematic manner, even if by means of an overview, the Church's social
teaching, which is the fruit of careful Magisterial reflection and an
expression of the Church's constant commitment in fidelity to the grace of
salvation wrought in Christ and in loving concern for humanity's destiny.
Herein the most relevant theological, philosophical, moral, cultural and
pastoral considerations of this teaching are systematically presented as they
relate to social questions. In this way, witness is borne to the fruitfulness
of the encounter between the Gospel and the problems that mankind encounters on
its journey through history.
[28] Peter began to say to him, "We have given up
everything and followed you." [29] Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or
father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel [30] who
will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and
brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and
eternal life in the age to come. [31] But many that are first will be last, and
(the) last will be first."
CSDC 325. Jesus
takes up the entire Old Testament tradition even with regard to economic goods,
wealth and poverty, and he gives them great clarity and fullness (cf. Mt
6:24, 13:22; Lk 6:20-24, 12:15-21; Rom 14:6-8; 1 Tim 4:4). Through the gift of
his Spirit and the conversion of hearts, he comes to establish the “Kingdom of
God”, so that a new manner of social life is made possible, in justice,
brotherhood, solidarity and sharing. The Kingdom inaugurated by Christ perfects
the original goodness of the created order and of human activity, which were
compromised by sin. Freed from evil and being placed once more in communion
with God, man is able to continue the work of Jesus, with the help of his
Spirit. In this, man is called to render justice to the poor, releasing the
oppressed, consoling the afflicted, actively seeking a new social order in
which adequate solutions to material poverty are offered and in which the
forces thwarting the attempts of the weakest to free themselves from conditions
of misery and slavery are more effectively controlled. When this happens, the
Kingdom of God is already present on this earth, although it is not of the
earth. It is in this Kingdom that the promises of the Prophets find final
fulfilment.
[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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