Saturday, September 27, 2014
Lk 11, 45-54 + CSDC and CV
Luke 11, 45-54
+ CSDC and CV
CV 41a. In
the context of this discussion, it is helpful to observe that business
enterprise involves a wide range of values, becoming wider all the
time. The continuing hegemony of the binary model of market-plus-State has
accustomed us to think only in terms of the private business leader of a
capitalistic bent on the one hand, and the State director on the other. In
reality, business has to be understood in an articulated way. There are a
number of reasons, of a meta-economic kind, for saying this. Business activity
has a human significance, prior to its professional one[98].
It is present in all work, understood as a personal action, an “actus
personae” [99], which is why every worker should have the chance to make
his contribution knowing that in some way “he is working ‘for himself'”[100]. With good reason, Paul VI taught that “everyone
who works is a creator”[101].
Notes: [98] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 32: loc. cit., 832-833; Paul VI,
Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio, 25: loc. cit., 269-270. [99] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Laborem Exercens, 24: loc. cit., 637-638. [100]
Ibid., 15: loc. cit., 616-618. [101] Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 27: loc. cit., 271.
CSDC 224. Faced with theories
that consider gender identity as merely the cultural and social product of the
interaction between the community and the individual, independent of personal
sexual identity without any reference to the true meaning of sexuality, the Church
does not tire of repeating her teaching: “Everyone, man and woman, should
acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral and spiritual
difference and complementarities are oriented towards the goods of marriage and
the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society
depends in part on the way in which the complementarities, needs and mutual
support between the sexes are lived out”[496]. According to this perspective,
it is obligatory that positive law be conformed to the natural law, according
to which sexual identity is indispensable, because it is the objective
condition for forming a couple in marriage.
Notes: [496] Catechism
of the Catholic Church, 2333.
45 Then one of the scholars of the law
said to him in reply, "Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us
too." 46 And he said, "Woe also to you scholars of the law! You
impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one
finger to touch them. 47 Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets
whom your ancestors killed. 48 Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building.
49 Therefore, the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and
apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute' 50 in order that this
generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the
foundation of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, this
generation will be charged with their blood! 52 Woe to you, scholars of the
law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and
you stopped those trying to enter." 53 When he left, the scribes and
Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about
many things, 54 for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.
CSDC 542. The identity of the lay faithful is born in and
nourished by the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and the Eucharist. Baptism
conforms the person to Christ, Son of the Father, first-born of every creature,
sent to all as Teacher and Redeemer. Confirmation configures the individual to Christ,
sent to give new life to creation and to every being through the outpouring of
his Spirit. The Eucharist makes the believer a participant in the unique and
perfect sacrifice that Christ offered to the Father, in his own flesh, for the
salvation of the world. Lay Catholics are disciples of Christ starting with the
sacraments, that is, by virtue of what God has wrought in them, marking them
with the very image of his Son Jesus Christ. It is from this divine gift of
grace, and not from human concession, that is born the threefold “munus” (gift
and duty) that characterizes the lay person as prophet, priest and king,
according to his secular nature.
[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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