Monday, June 30, 2014
Mark 12,18-27 + CSDC and CV
Mark 12,18-27 +
CSDC and CV
CV 8b. At a distance of over forty years from the Encyclical's publication, I
intend to pay tribute and to honour the memory of the great Pope Paul VI,
revisiting his teachings on integral human development and taking my
place within the path that they marked out, so as to apply them to the present
moment. This continual application to contemporary circumstances began with the
Encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, with
which the Servant of God Pope John Paul II chose to mark the twentieth
anniversary of the publication of Populorum
Progressio. Until that time, only Rerum
Novarum had been commemorated
in this way. Now that a further twenty years have passed, I express my
conviction that Populorum Progressio
deserves to be considered “the Rerum
Novarum of the present age”, shedding light upon humanity's journey towards
unity.
CSDC 13b. Drawing inspiration from the Pastoral
Constitution Gaudium et Spes, this
document too places “man considered whole and entire, with body and soul, heart
and conscience, mind and will” [15] as the key to its whole exposition. In this
perspective, the Church is “inspired by no earthly ambition and seeks but one
solitary goal: to carry forward the work of Christ himself under the lead of
the befriending Spirit. For Christ entered this world to bear witness to the
truth, to save and not to sit in judgment, to serve and not to be served”[16].
Notes: [15] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council,
Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 3: AAS 58 (1966), 1026. [16]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes,
3: AAS 58 (1966), 1027.
[18] Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,
came to him and put this question to him, [19] saying, "Teacher, Moses
wrote for us, 'If someone's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, his
brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother.' [20] Now
there were seven brothers. The first married a woman and died, leaving no
descendants. [21] So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants,
and the third likewise. [22] And the seven left no descendants. Last of all the
woman also died. [23] At the resurrection (when they arise) whose wife will she
be? For all seven had been married to her." [24] Jesus said to them,
"Are you not misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of
God? [25] When they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in
marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. [26] As for the dead being
raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush,
how God told him, 'I am the God of Abraham, (the) God of Isaac, and (the) God
of Jacob'? [27] He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly
misled."
CSDC 576. To these basic questions about the meaning and
purpose of human life the Church responds with the proclamation of the Gospel
of Christ, which liberates the dignity of the human person from changing
opinions and ensures the freedom of men and women as no human law can do. The
Second Vatican Council indicated that the mission of the Church in the
contemporary world consists in helping every human being to discover in God the
ultimate meaning of his existence. The Church knows well that “God alone, whom
she serves, can satisfy the deepest cravings of the human heart, for the world
and what it has to offer can never fully satisfy it”[1208]. Only God, who
created man in his image and redeemed him from sin, can offer a fully adequate
answer through the Revelation wrought in his Son made man. The Gospel, in fact,
“announces and proclaims the freedom of the sons of God, it rejects all bondage
resulting from sin; it scrupulously respects the dignity of conscience and its
freedom of choice; it never ceases to encourage the employment of human talents
in the service of God and of man, and finally, it commends everyone to the
charitable love of all”[1209].
Notes: [1208] Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 41: AAS 58
(1966), 1059. [1209] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium
et Spes, 41: AAS 58 (1966), 1059-1060.
[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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