Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Mark 9, 11-13 + CSDC and CV
Mark 9, 11-13 +
CSDC and CV
CV 79b. Development requires attention to the spiritual life, a serious
consideration of the experiences of trust in God, spiritual fellowship in
Christ, reliance upon God's providence and mercy, love and forgiveness,
self-denial, acceptance of others, justice and peace. All this is essential if
“hearts of stone” are to be transformed into “hearts of flesh” (Ezek 36:26),
rendering life on earth “divine” and thus more worthy of humanity. All this is
of man, because man is the subject of his own existence; and at the same
time it is of God, because God is at the beginning and end of all that
is good, all that leads to salvation: “the world or life or death or the
present or the future, all are yours; and you are Christ's; and Christ is
God's” (1 Cor 3:22-23).
CSDC 577a. Faith in God and in Jesus Christ sheds light on
the moral principles that are “the sole and irreplaceable foundation of that
stability and tranquillity, of that internal and external order, private and
public, that alone can generate and safeguard the prosperity of States”[1210].
Life in society must be based on the divine plan because “the theological
dimension is needed both for interpreting and solving present-day problems in
human society”[1211]. In the presence of serious forms of exploitation and
social injustice, there is “an ever more widespread and acute sense of the need
for a radical personal and social renewal capable of ensuring justice,
solidarity, honesty and openness.
Notes:
[1210] Pius XII, Encyclical Letter Summi
Pontificatus: AAS 31 (1939), 425. [1211] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 55: AAS 83 (1991),
860-861.
[11] Then they asked him, "Why do the scribes say
that Elijah must come first?" [12] He told them, "Elijah will indeed
come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of
Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt? [13] But I tell
you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is
written of him."
CSDC 133. In no case, therefore, is the human
person to be manipulated for ends that are foreign to his own development,
which can find complete fulfilment only in God and his plan of salvation: in
fact, man in his interiority transcends the universe and is the only creature
willed by God for itself[249]. For this reason neither his life nor the
development of his thought, nor his good, nor those who are part of his
personal and social activities can be subjected to unjust restrictions in the
exercise of their rights and freedom. The person cannot be a means for
carrying out economic, social or political projects imposed by some
authority, even in the name of an alleged progress of the civil community as a
whole or of other persons, either in the present or the future. It is therefore
necessary that public authorities keep careful watch so that restrictions
placed on freedom or any onus placed on personal activity will never become
harmful to personal dignity, thus guaranteeing the effective practicability of
human rights. All this, once more, is based on the vision of man as a person,
that is to say, as an active and responsible subject of his own
growth process, together with the community to which he belongs.
Notes:
[249] Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral
Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 24: AAS 58 (1966), 1045;
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 27, 356 and 358.
[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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