Lk 22, 1-13 + CSDC and CV

Luke 22, 1-13 + CSDC and CV

CV 58b Economic aid, in order to be true to its purpose, must not pursue secondary objectives. It must be distributed with the involvement not only of the governments of receiving countries, but also local economic agents and the bearers of culture within civil society, including local Churches. Aid programmes must increasingly acquire the characteristics of participation and completion from the grass roots. Indeed, the most valuable resources in countries receiving development aid are human resources: herein lies the real capital that needs to accumulate in order to guarantee a truly autonomous future for the poorest countries.

 To promote the right to work it is important today

CDS 293 To promote the right to work it is important today, as in the days of Rerum Novarum, that there be “an open process by which society organize[s] itself”.[632] Meaningful testimonies and examples of self-organization can be found in the numerous initiatives, business and social, characterized by forms of participation, cooperation and self-management that manifest the joining of energies in solidarity. These are offered to the market as a multifaceted sector of work activity whose mark of distinction is the special attention given to the relational components of the goods produced and of the services rendered in many areas: instruction, health care, basic social services and culture. The initiatives of this so-called “third sector” represent an ever more important opportunity for the development of labour and the economy.

 Notes:  [632] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 16: AAS 83 (1991), 813.

(Luke 22,1-13) Christian salvation is an integral liberation of man

[1] Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was drawing near, [2] and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people. [3] Then Satan entered into Judas, the one surnamed Iscariot, who was counted among the Twelve, [4] and he went to the chief priests and temple guards to discuss a plan for handing him over to them. [5] They were pleased and agreed to pay him money. [6] He accepted their offer and sought a favorable opportunity to hand him over to them in the absence of a crowd. [7] When the day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread arrived, the day for sacrificing the Passover lamb, [8] he sent out Peter and John, instructing them, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover." [9] They asked him, "Where do you want us to make the preparations?" [10] And he answered them, "When you go into the city, a man will meet you carrying a jar of water. Follow him into the house that he enters [11] and say to the master of the house, 'The teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"' [12] He will show you a large upper room that is furnished. Make the preparations there." [13] Then they went off and found everything exactly as he had told them, and there they prepared the Passover.

CDS 328 Goods, even when legitimately owned, always have a universal destination; any type of improper accumulation is immoral, because it openly contradicts the universal destination assigned to all goods by the Creator. Christian salvation is an integral liberation of man, which means being freed not only from need but also in respect to possessions. “For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith” (1 Tim 6:10). The Fathers of the Church insist more on the need for the conversion and transformation of the consciences of believers than on the need to change the social and political structures of their day. They call on those who work in the economic sphere and who possess goods to consider themselves administrators of the goods that God has entrusted to them.  

[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)]