Saturday, June 7, 2014
Mark 8, 27-33 + CSDC and CV
Mark 8, 27-33 +
CSDC and CV
CV 78b. Only if we are aware of our calling, as individuals and as a
community, to be part of God's family as his sons and daughters, will we be
able to generate a new vision and muster new energy in the service of a truly
integral humanism. The greatest service to development, then, is a Christian
humanism [157] that enkindles charity and takes its
lead from truth, accepting both as a lasting gift from God. Openness to God
makes us open towards our brothers and sisters and towards an understanding of
life as a joyful task to be accomplished in a spirit of solidarity. On the
other hand, ideological rejection of God and an atheism of indifference,
oblivious to the Creator and at risk of becoming equally oblivious to human
values, constitute some of the chief obstacles to development today.
Notes: [157] Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 42:
loc. cit., 278.
CSDC 575b. Life and death seem to be solely in the hands
of a scientific and technological progress that is moving faster than man's
ability to establish its ultimate goals and evaluate its costs. Many phenomena
indicate instead that “the increasing sense of dissatisfaction with worldly
goods which is making itself felt among citizens of the wealthier nations is
rapidly destroying the treasured illusion of an earthly paradise. People are
also becoming more and more conscious of their rights as human beings, rights
that are universal and inviolable, and they are aspiring to more just and more
human relations”[1207].
Notes:
[1207] John XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra: AAS 53
(1961), 451.
[27] Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages
of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people
say that I am?" [28] They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others
Elijah, still others one of the prophets."[29] And he asked them,
"But who do you say that I am?" Peter said to him in reply, "You
are the Messiah." [30] Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
[31] He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be
rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and
rise after three days. [32] He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and
began to rebuke him. [33] At this he turned around and, looking at his
disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking
not as God does, but as human beings do."
CSDC 114. Man is also in relationship with himself
and is able to reflect on himself. Sacred Scripture speaks in this regard
about the heart of man. The heart designates man's inner spirituality,
what distinguishes him from every other creature. God “has made everything
beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he
cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end” (Eccles
3:11). In the end, the heart indicates the spiritual faculties which most
properly belong to man, which are his prerogatives insofar as he is created in
the image of his Creator: reason, the discernment of good and evil, free
will[220]. When he listens to the deep aspirations of his heart, no person can
fail to make his own the words of truth expressed by Saint Augustine: “You have
made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in
you”[221].
Notes: [220] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae, 34: AAS 87 (1995),
438-440. [221] Saint Augustine, Confessions,
I, 1: PL 32, 661: “Tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet; quia fecisti nos ad te,
et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te”.
[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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