Sunday, August 10, 2014
Lk 3, 21-22 + CSDC and CV
Luke 3, 21-22 +
CSDC and CV
CV 28a. One of
the most striking aspects of development in the present day is the important
question of respect for life, which cannot in any way be detached from
questions concerning the development of peoples. It is an aspect which has
acquired increasing prominence in recent times, obliging us to broaden our
concept of poverty[66] and underdevelopment to include
questions connected with the acceptance of life, especially in cases where it
is impeded in a variety of ways. Not only does the situation of poverty still
provoke high rates of infant mortality in many regions, but some parts of the
world still experience practices of demographic control, on the part of
governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose
abortion.
Notes: [66] Cf. John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae,
18, 59, 63-64: loc. cit., 419-421, 467-468, 472-475.
CSDC 74. The Church's social doctrine finds its
essential foundation in biblical revelation and in the tradition of the Church.
From this source, which comes from above, it draws inspiration and light to
understand, judge and guide human experience and history. Before anything else
and above everything else is God's plan for the created world and, in
particular, for the life and destiny of men and women, called to Trinitarian
communion. Faith, which receives the divine word and puts it into practice,
effectively interacts with reason. The understanding of faith, especially
faith leading to practical action, is structured by reason and makes use of
every contribution that reason has to offer. Social doctrine too, insofar as it
is knowledge applied to the circumstantial and historical aspects of praxis,
brings “fides et ratio” [105] together and is an eloquent expression of
that rich relationship.
Notes:
[105] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio: AAS 91 (1999), 5-88.
[21] After all the people had been baptized and Jesus
also had been baptized and was praying, heaven was opened [22] and the holy
Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven,
"You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."
CSDC 28. The benevolence and mercy that
inspire God's actions and provide the key for understanding them become so very
much closer to man that they take on the traits of the man Jesus, the Word made
flesh. In the Gospel of Saint Luke, Jesus describes his messianic ministry with
the words of Isaiah which recall the prophetic significance of the jubilee:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the
good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Lk 4:18-19; cf. Is 61:1-2). Jesus
therefore places himself on the frontline of fulfilment, not only because he
fulfils what was promised and what was awaited by Israel, but also in the
deeper sense that in him the decisive event of the history of God with mankind
is fulfilled. He proclaims: “He who has seen me has seen the Father” (Jn 14:9).
Jesus, in other words, is the tangible and definitive manifestation of how God
acts towards men and women.
[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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