Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Lk 9, 28-36 + CSDC and CV
Luke 9, 28-36 + CSDC
and CV
CV 34e. Because it is a gift
received by everyone, charity in truth is a force that builds community, it
brings all people together without imposing barriers or limits. The human
community that we build by ourselves can never, purely by its own strength, be
a fully fraternal community, nor can it overcome every division and become a
truly universal community. The unity of the human race, a fraternal communion
transcending every barrier, is called into being by the word of
God-who-is-Love. In addressing this key question, we must make it clear, on the
one hand, that the logic of gift does not exclude justice, nor does it merely
sit alongside it as a second element added from without; on the other hand,
economic, social and political development, if it is to be authentically human,
needs to make room for the principle of gratuitousness as an expression
of fraternity.
CSDC
100. At the
beginning of the 1970s, in a climate of turbulence and strong ideological
controversy, Pope Paul VI returns to the social teaching of Pope Leo XIII and
updates it, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum, with his Apostolic Letter
Octogesima Adveniens [186]. The Pope reflects on post-industrial society
with all of its complex problems, noting the inadequacy of ideologies in
responding to these challenges: urbanization, the condition of young people,
the condition of women, unemployment, discrimination, emigration, population growth,
the influence of the means of social communications, the ecological problem.
Notes: [186] Cf. Paul VI, Apostolic
Letter Octogesima Adveniens: AAS 63 (1971), 401-441.
28 About
eight days after he said this, he took Peter, John, and James and went up the
mountain to pray. 29 While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing
became dazzling white. 30 And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses
and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his exodus that he was going to
accomplish in Jerusalem. 32 Peter and his companions had been overcome by
sleep, but becoming fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing
with him. 33 As they were about to part from him, Peter said to Jesus,
"Master, it is good that we are here; let us make three tents, one for
you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." But he did not know what he was
saying. 34 While he was still speaking, a cloud came and cast a shadow over
them, and they became frightened when they entered the cloud. 35 Then from the
cloud came a voice that said, "This is my chosen Son; listen to him."
36 After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. They fell silent and did
not at that time tell anyone what they had seen.
CSDC 130. Openness to transcendence belongs to the human
person: man is
open to the infinite and to all created beings. He is open above all to the
infinite — God — because with his intellect and will he raises himself above
all the created order and above himself, he becomes independent from creatures,
is free in relation to created things and tends towards total truth and the
absolute good. He is open also to others, to the men and women of the world,
because only insofar as he understands himself in reference to a “thou” can he
say “I”. He comes out of himself, from the self-centred preservation of his own
life, to enter into a relationship of dialogue and communion with others. The
human person is open to the fullness of being, to the unlimited horizon of
being. He has in himself the ability to transcend the individual particular
objects that he knows, thanks effectively to his openness to unlimited being.
In a certain sense the human soul is — because of its cognitive dimension — all
things: “all immaterial things enjoy a certain infiniteness, insofar as they
embrace everything, or because it is a question of the essence of a spiritual
reality that functions as a model and likeness of everything, as is the case
with God, or because it has a likeness to everything or is ‘in act' like the
Angels or ‘in potential' like souls”[245].
Notes: [245] Saint Thomas Aquinas, Commentum
in tertium librum Sententiarum, d. 27, q. 1, a. 4: “Ex utraque autem parte
res immateriales infinitatem habent quodammodo, quia sunt quodammodo omnia,
sive inquantum essentia rei immaterialis est exemplar et similitudo omnium,
sicut in Deo accidit, sive quia habet similitudinem omnium vel actu vel
potentia, sicut accidit in Angelis et animabus”; cf. Saint Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae, I, q. 75, a. 5: Ed. Leon. 5, 201-203.
[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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