Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Mark 14,1-9 + CSDC and CV
Mark 14,1-9 +
CSDC and CV
CV 11c. Without the perspective of eternal life, human progress in this world
is denied breathing-space. Enclosed within history, it runs the risk of being
reduced to the mere accumulation of wealth; humanity thus loses the courage to
be at the service of higher goods, at the service of the great and
disinterested initiatives called forth by universal charity. Man does not develop
through his own powers, nor can development simply be handed to him. In the
course of history, it was often maintained that the creation of institutions
was sufficient to guarantee the fulfilment of humanity's right to development.
Unfortunately, too much confidence was placed in those institutions, as if they
were able to deliver the desired objective automatically.
CSDC 16c. A second challenge is found in the
understanding and management of pluralism and differences at every level:
in ways of thinking, moral choices, culture, religious affiliation, philosophy
of human and social development.
[1] The Passover
and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days' time. So the
chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and
put him to death. [2] They said, "Not during the festival, for fear that
there may be a riot among the people." [3] When he was in Bethany
reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an
alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the
alabaster jar and poured it on his head. [4] There were some who were
indignant. "Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? [5] It could
have been sold for more than three hundred days' wages and the money given to
the poor." They were infuriated with her. [6] Jesus said, "Let her
alone. Why do you make trouble for her? She has done a good thing for me. [7]
The poor you will always have with you, and whenever you wish you can do good
to them, but you will not always have me. [8] She has done what she could. She
has anticipated anointing my body for burial. [9] Amen, I say to you, wherever
the gospel is proclaimed to the whole world, what she has done will be told in
memory of her."
CSDC 29. The love that inspires Jesus' ministry
among men is the love that he has experienced in his intimate union with the
Father. The New Testament allows us to enter deeply into the experience,
that Jesus himself lives and communicates, the love of God his Father — “Abba”
— and, therefore, it permits us to enter into the very heart of divine life.
Jesus announces the liberating mercy of God to those whom he meets on his way,
beginning with the poor, the marginalized, the sinners. He invites all to
follow him because he is the first to obey God's plan of love, and he does so
in a most singular way, as God's envoy in the world. Jesus' self-awareness of
being the Son is an expression of this primordial experience. The Son
has been given everything, and freely so, by the Father: “All that the Father
has is mine” (Jn 16:15). His in turn is the mission of making all men
sharers in this gift and in this filial relationship: “No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have
called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known
to you” (Jn 15:15). For Jesus, recognizing the Father's love means
modelling his actions on God's gratuitousness and mercy; it is these that
generate new life. It means becoming — by his very existence — the example and
pattern of this for his disciples. Jesus' followers are called to live
like him and, after his Passover of death and resurrection, to live also
in him and by him, thanks to the superabundant gift of the Holy
Spirit, the Consoler, who internalizes Christ's own style of life in human
hearts.
[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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