Thursday, September 11, 2014
Lk 9, 37-45 + CSDC and CV
Luke 9, 37-45 + CSDC
and CV
CV 35a. In a climate of mutual trust, the market is the economic
institution that permits encounter between persons, inasmuch as they are
economic subjects who make use of contracts to regulate their relations as they
exchange goods and services of equivalent value between them, in order to
satisfy their needs and desires. The market is subject to the principles of
so-called commutative justice, which regulates the relations of giving
and receiving between parties to a transaction. But the social doctrine of the
Church has unceasingly highlighted the importance of distributive justice
and social justice for the market economy, not only because it belongs
within a broader social and political context, but also because of the wider
network of relations within which it operates. In fact, if the market is governed
solely by the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods, it
cannot produce the social cohesion that it requires in order to function well. Without
internal forms of solidarity and mutual trust, the market cannot completely
fulfil its proper economic function. And today it is this trust which has
ceased to exist, and the loss of trust is a grave loss.
CSDC
134. Authentic
social changes are effective and lasting only to the extent that they are based
on resolute changes in personal conduct. An authentic moralization of social life will
never be possible unless it starts with people and has people as its point of
reference: indeed, “living a moral life bears witness to the dignity of the
person”[250]. It is obviously the task of people to develop those moral
attitudes that are fundamental for any society that truly wishes to be human
(justice, honesty, truthfulness, etc.), and which in no way can simply be
expected of others or delegated to institutions. It is the task of everyone,
and in a special way of those who hold various forms of political, judicial or
professional responsibility with regard to others, to be the watchful
conscience of society and the first to bear witness to civil social conditions
that are worthy of human beings.
Notes: [250] Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 1706.
37 On
the next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met him. 38
There was a man in the crowd who cried out, "Teacher, I beg you, look at
my son; he is my only child. 39 For a spirit seizes him and he suddenly screams
and it convulses him until he foams at the mouth; it releases him only with
difficulty, wearing him out. 40 I begged your disciples to cast it out but they
could not." 41 Jesus said in reply, "O faithless and perverse
generation, how long will I be with you and endure you? Bring your son
here." 42 As he was coming forward, the demon threw him to the ground in a
convulsion; but Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and returned
him to his father. 43 And all were astonished by the majesty of God. While they
were all amazed at his every deed, he said to his disciples, 44 "Pay
attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men."
45 But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so
that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this
saying.
CSDC 327. Faith in Jesus Christ makes it possible to have
a correct understanding of social development, in the context of an integral
and solidary humanism. In this regard, the contribution of theological
reflection offered by the Church's social Magisterium is very useful: “Faith in
Christ the Redeemer, while it illuminates from within the nature of
development, also guides us in the task of collaboration. In the Letter of St.
Paul to the Colossians, we read that Christ is ‘the firstborn of all creation,'
and that ‘all things were created through him' and for him (Col 1:15-16). In
fact, ‘all things hold together in him', since ‘in him all the fullness of God
was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things' (v.
20). A part of this divine plan, which begins from eternity in Christ, the
perfect ‘image' of the Father, and which culminates in him, ‘the firstborn from
the dead' (v. 15-18), in our own history, marked by our personal and collective
effort to raise up the human condition and to overcome the obstacles which are
continually arising along our way. It thus prepares us to share in the fullness
which ‘dwells in the Lord' and which he communicates ‘to his body, which is the
Church' (v. 18; cf. Eph 1:22-23). At the same time sin, which is always
attempting to trap us and which jeopardizes our human achievements, is conquered
and redeemed by the ‘reconciliation' accomplished by Christ (cf. Col
1:20)”.[684]
Notes: [684] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 31:
AAS 80 (1988), 554-555.
[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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