Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Mark 8, 1-9 + CSDC and CV
Mark 8
Mark 8, 1-9 +
CSDC and CV
CV 77a. The supremacy of technology tends to prevent people from recognizing
anything that cannot be explained in terms of matter alone. Yet everyone
experiences the many immaterial and spiritual dimensions of life. Knowing is
not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals
something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple,
is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the
material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something
more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always
an element that surprises us. We should never cease to marvel at these things.
CSDC 574b. However, the choice of a party, a political
alliance, the persons to whom public life is to be entrusted, while involving
the conscience of each person, can never be an exclusively individual choice.
“It is up to the Christian community to analyze with objectivity the situation
which is proper to their own country, to shed on it the light of the Gospel's
inalterable words and to draw principles of reflection, norms of judgment and
directives for action from the social teaching of the Church”[1203].
Notes: [1203] Paul VI, Apostolic Letter
Octogesima Adveniens, 4: AAS 63 (1971), 403-404.
[1] 1 In those days when there again was a great crowd
without anything to eat, he summoned the disciples and said, [2] "My heart
is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three
days and have nothing to eat. [3] If I send them away hungry to their homes,
they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great
distance." [4] His disciples answered him, "Where can anyone get
enough bread to satisfy them here in this deserted place?" [5] Still he
asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" "Seven," they
replied. [6] He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then, taking the
seven loaves he gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to
distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. [7] They also had a few
fish. He said the blessing over them and ordered them distributed also. [8]
They ate and were satisfied. They picked up the fragments left over - seven
baskets. [9] There were about four thousand people. He dismissed them
107. Men and
women, in the concrete circumstances of history, represent the heart and soul
of Catholic social thought[202]. The whole of the Church's social
doctrine, in fact, develops from the principle that affirms the inviolable
dignity of the human person[203]. In her manifold expressions of this
knowledge, the Church has striven above all to defend human dignity in the face
of every attempt to redimension or distort its image; moreover she has often
denounced the many violations of human dignity. History attests that it is from
the fabric of social relationships that there arise some of the best
possibilities for ennobling the human person, but it is also there that lie in
wait the most loathsome rejections of human dignity.
Notes: [202] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 11: AAS 83 (1991),
807. [203] Cf. John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), 453, 459.
[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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