Saturday, August 2, 2014
Lk 1, 80 + CSDC and CV
Luke 1, 80 +
CSDC and CV
CV 25e. In comparison with the casualties of
industrial society in the past, unemployment today provokes new forms of
economic marginalization, and the current crisis can only make this situation
worse. Being out of work or dependent on public or private assistance for a
prolonged period undermines the freedom and creativity of the person and his
family and social relationships, causing great psychological and spiritual
suffering. I would like to remind everyone, especially governments engaged in
boosting the world's economic and social assets, that the primary capital to
be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity:
“Man is the source, the focus and the aim of all economic and social life”[61].
Notes: [61]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the
Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 63.
66. The Church's social doctrine is an integral
part of her evangelizing ministry. Nothing that concerns the community of
men and women — situations and problems regarding justice, freedom,
development, relations between peoples, peace — is foreign to evangelization,
and evangelization would be incomplete if it did not take into account the
mutual demands continually made by the Gospel and by the concrete, personal and
social life of man[85]. Profound links exist between evangelization and human
promotion: “These include links of an anthropological order, because the man
who is to be evangelized is not an abstract being but is subject to social and
economic questions. They also include links in the theological order, since one
cannot disassociate the plan of creation from the plan of Redemption. The
latter plan touches the very concrete situations of injustice to be combated
and of justice to be restored. They include links of the eminently evangelical
order, which is that of charity: how in fact can one proclaim the new
commandment without promoting in justice and in peace the true, authentic
advancement of man?”[86].
Notes: [85] Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Evangelii Nuntiandi, 29: AAS
68 (1976), 25. [86] Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Evangelii Nuntiandi, 31:
AAS 68 (1976), 26.
[80] The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he
was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel.
CSDC 212. The family has central importance in reference
to the person. It is in this
cradle of life and love that people are born and grow; when a
child is conceived, society receives the gift of a new person who is
called “from the innermost depths of self to communion with others and
to the giving of self to others”[465]. It is in the family, therefore,
that the mutual giving of self on the part of man and woman united in marriage
creates an environment of life in which children “develop their potentialities,
become aware of their dignity and prepare to face their unique and individual
destiny”[466]. In the climate of natural affection which unites the members
of a family unit, persons are recognized and learn responsibility in the
wholeness of their personhood. “The first and fundamental structure for
‘human ecology' is the family, in which man receives his first formative
ideas about truth and goodness, and learns what it means to love and to be
loved, and thus what it actually means to be a person”[467]. The obligations of
its members, in fact, are not limited by the terms of a contract but derive
from the very essence of the family, founded on the irrevocable marriage
covenant and given structure in the relationships that arise within it
following the generation or adoption of children.
[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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