Mark 16,1-8 +
CSDC and CV
CV 17b. This freedom concerns the type of development we are considering, but
it also affects situations of underdevelopment which are not due to chance or
historical necessity, but are attributable to human responsibility. This is why
“the peoples in hunger are making a dramatic appeal to the peoples blessed with
abundance”[40]. This too is a vocation, a call
addressed by free subjects to other free subjects in favour of an assumption of
shared responsibility. Paul VI had a keen sense of the importance of economic
structures and institutions, but he had an equally clear sense of their nature
as instruments of human freedom. Only when it is free can development be
integrally human; only in a climate of responsible freedom can it grow in a
satisfactory manner.
Notes: [40] Ibid., 3: loc. cit., 258.
Sabbatical year and jubilee year: guidelines for the social and economic life
CSDC 24a. Among the many norms which tend to give
concrete expression to the style of gratuitousness and sharing in justice which
God inspires, the law of the sabbatical year (celebrated every seven years)
and that of the jubilee year (celebrated every fifty years) [27]
stand out as important guidelines — unfortunately never fully put into effect
historically — for the social and economic life of the people of Israel.
Besides requiring fields to lie fallow, these laws call for the cancellation of
debts and a general release of persons and goods: everyone is free to return to
his family of origin and to regain possession of his birthright.
Notes: [27] These
laws are found in Ex 23, Deut 15, Lev 25.
(Mk 16,1-8) He has been
raised; he is not here
[1] When the
sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought
spices so that they might go and anoint him. [2] Very early when the sun had
risen, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. [3] They were
saying to one another, "Who will roll back the stone for us from the
entrance to the tomb?" [4] When they looked up, they saw that the stone
had been rolled back; it was very large. [5] On entering the tomb they saw a
young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe, and they were
utterly amazed. [6] He said to them, "Do not be amazed! You seek Jesus of
Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold the place where
they laid him. [7] But go and tell his disciples and Peter, 'He is going before
you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.'" [8] Then they
went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They
said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
CSDC 56. God's
promise and Jesus Christ's resurrection raise in Christians the well-founded
hope that a new and eternal dwelling place is prepared for every human person,
a new earth where justice abides (cf. 2 Cor 5:1-2; 2 Pet 3:13). “Then, with
death conquered, the children of God will be raised in Christ and what was sown
in weakness and corruption will be clothed in incorruptibility: charity and its
works will remain and all of creation, which God made for man, will be set free
from its bondage to vanity”[68]. This hope, rather than weaken, must instead
strengthen concern for the work that is needed in the present reality.
Notes: [68] Second
Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 39: AAS
58 (1966), 1057.
[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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