Saturday, October 18, 2014
Lk 15, 21-32 + CSDC and CV
Luke 15, 21-32
+ CSDC and CV
CV 47a. The
strengthening of different types of businesses, especially those capable of
viewing profit as a means for achieving the goal of a more humane market and
society, must also be pursued in those countries that are excluded or marginalized
from the influential circles of the global economy. In these countries it is
very important to move ahead with projects based on subsidiarity, suitably
planned and managed, aimed at affirming rights yet also providing for the
assumption of corresponding responsibilities. In development programmes,
the principle of the centrality of the human person, as the subject
primarily responsible for development, must be preserved. The principal concern
must be to improve the actual living conditions of the people in a given
region, thus enabling them to carry out those duties which their poverty does
not presently allow them to fulfil. Social concern must never be an abstract
attitude.
CSDC 241. Parents have the right to found and support
educational institutions. Public authorities must see to it that “public
subsidies are so allocated that parents are truly free to exercise this right
without incurring unjust burdens. Parents should not have to sustain, directly
or indirectly, extra charges which would deny or unjustly limit the exercise of
this freedom”[548]. The refusal to provide public economic support to
non-public schools that need assistance and that render a service to civil
society is to be considered an injustice. “Whenever the State lays claim to an
educational monopoly, it oversteps its rights and offends justice ... The State
cannot without injustice merely tolerate so-called private schools. Such
schools render a public service and therefore have a right to financial
assistance”[549].
Notes: [548] Holy See, Charter of the Rights of the Family,
art. 5 b, Vatican Polyglot Press, Vatican City 1983, p. 11; cf. Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, Dignitatis Humanae, 5: AAS 58 (1966), 933.
[549] Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Libertatis
Conscientia, 94: AAS 79 (1987), 595-596.
21 His son said to him, 'Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your
son.' 22 But his father ordered his servants, 'Quickly bring the finest robe
and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Take
the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, 24
because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and
has been found.' Then the celebration began. 25 Now the older son had been out
in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound
of music and dancing. 26 He called one of the servants and asked what this
might mean. 27 The servant said to him, 'Your brother has returned and your
father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and
sound.' 28 He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father
came out and pleaded with him. 29 He said to his father in reply, 'Look, all
these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never
gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. 30 But when your son
returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter
the fattened calf.' 31 He said to him, 'My son, you are here with me always;
everything I have is yours. 32 But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because
your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been
found.'"
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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