Sunday, September 7, 2014
Lk 9, 7-10 + CSDC and CV
Luke 9, 7-10 +
CSDC and CV
CV 34b. The
Church's wisdom has always pointed to the presence of original sin in social
conditions and in the structure of society: “Ignorance of the fact that man has
a wounded nature inclined to evil gives rise to serious errors in the areas of
education, politics, social action and morals”[85]. In
the list of areas where the pernicious effects of sin are evident, the economy
has been included for some time now. We have a clear proof of this at the
present time.
Notes: [85] Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 407: cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 25: loc. cit.,
822-824.
CSDC 10. The Compendium of the Social Doctrine
of the Church is presented as an
instrument for the moral and pastoral discernment of the complex events that
mark our time; as a guide to inspire, at the individual and collective levels,
attitudes and choices that will permit all people to look to the future with
greater trust and hope; as an aid for the faithful concerning the Church's
teaching in the area of social morality. From this there can spring new
strategies suited to the demands of our time and in keeping with human needs
and resources. But above all there can arise the motivation to rediscover the
vocation proper to the different charisms within the Church that are destined
to the evangelization of the social order, because “all the members of
the Church are sharers in this secular dimension”[9]. In short, the text is
proposed as an incentive for dialogue with all who sincerely desire the good of
mankind.
Notes: [9] John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic
Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 15: AAS 81 (1989), 414.
7 Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening,
and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying, "John has been
raised from the dead"; 8 others were saying, "Elijah has
appeared"; still others, "One of the ancient prophets has
arisen." 9 But Herod said, "John I beheaded. Who then is this about
whom I hear such things?" And he kept trying to see him. 10 When the
apostles returned, they explained to him what they had done. He took them and
withdrew in private to a town called Bethsaida.
CSDC CSDC
33. The commandment of mutual love, which represents the law of life
for God's people[32], must inspire, purify and elevate all human relationships
in society and in politics. “To be human means to be called to interpersonal
communion”[33], because the image and the likeness of the Trinitarian God are
the basis of the whole of “human ‘ethos', which reaches its apex in the
commandment of love”[34]. The modern cultural, social, economic and political
phenomenon of interdependence, which intensifies and makes particularly evident
the bonds that unite the human family, accentuates once more, in the light of
Revelation, “a new model of the unity of the human race, which must ultimately
inspire our solidarity. This supreme model of unity, which is a reflection of
the intimate life of God, one God in three Persons, is what we Christians mean
by the word 'communion'”[35].
Notes: [32]
Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, 9:
AAS 57 (1965), 12-14. [33] John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem,
7: AAS 80 (1988), 1666. [34] John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris
Dignitatem, 7: AAS 80 (1988), 1665-1666. [35] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 40: AAS 80 (1988), 569.
[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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