Thursday, June 12, 2014
Mark 9, 28-32 + CSDC and CV
Mark 9, 28-32 +
CSDC and CV
CV 79d. At the conclusion of the Pauline Year, I gladly express this
hope in the Apostle's own words, taken from the Letter to the Romans:
“Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one
another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honour” (Rom
12:9-10). May the Virgin Mary — proclaimed Mater Ecclesiae by Paul VI
and honoured by Christians as Speculum Iustitiae and Regina Pacis —
protect us and obtain for us, through her heavenly intercession, the strength,
hope and joy necessary to continue to dedicate ourselves with generosity to the
task of bringing about the “development of the whole man and of all men”
[159].
Notes: [159] Paul
VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum
Progressio, 42: loc. cit., 278.
CSDC 577b. As for “the social question”, we must not be
seduced by “the naive expectation that, faced with the great challenges of our
time, we shall find some magic formula. No, we shall not be saved by a formula
but by a Person and the assurance that he gives us: I am with you! It is not
therefore a matter of inventing a ‘new programme'. The programme already
exists: it is the plan found in the Gospel and in the living Tradition, it is
the same as ever. Ultimately, it has its centre in Christ himself, who is to be
known loved and imitated, so that in him we may live the life of the Trinity,
and with him transform history until its fulfilment in the heavenly
Jerusalem”[1213].
Notes:
[1213] John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Novo
Millennio Ineunte, 29: AAS 93 (2001), 285.
[28] When he entered the house, his disciples asked him
in private, "Why could we not drive it out?" [29] He said to them,
"This kind can only come out through prayer." [30] They left from
there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know
about it. [31] He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of
Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after
his death he will rise." [32] But they did not understand the saying, and
they were afraid to question him.
CSDC 131. Man exists as a unique and unrepeatable
being, he exists as an “I” capable of self-understanding, self-possession and
self-determination. The human person is an intelligent and conscious being,
capable of reflecting on himself and therefore of being aware of himself and
his actions. However, it is not intellect, consciousness and freedom that
define the person, rather it is the person who is the basis of the acts of
intellect, consciousness and freedom. These acts can even be absent, for even
without them man does not cease to be a person. The human person, must
always be understood in his unrepeatable and inviolable uniqueness. In
fact, man exists above all as a subjective entity, as a centre of
consciousness and freedom, whose unique life experiences, comparable
to those of no one else, underlie the inadmissibility of any attempt to reduce
his status by forcing him into preconceived categories or power systems,
whether ideological or otherwise. This entails above all the requirement not
only of simple respect on the part of others, especially political and
social institutions and their leaders with regard to every man and woman on the
earth, but even more, this means that the primary commitment of each person
towards others, and particularly of these same institutions, must be for the
promotion and integral development of the person.
[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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