Friday, December 19, 2014
John 1, 43-51 + CSDC and CV
John 1, 43-51 +
CSDC and CV
CV 66c In addition, it can be helpful to promote new ways of marketing products
from deprived areas of the world, so as to guarantee their producers a decent
return. However, certain conditions need to be met: the market should be
genuinely transparent; the producers, as well as increasing their profit
margins, should also receive improved formation in professional skills and
technology; and finally, trade of this kind must not become hostage to partisan
ideologies. A more incisive role for consumers, as long as they themselves are
not manipulated by associations that do not truly represent them, is a
desirable element for building economic democracy.
CSDC 342. Businesses
today move in economic contexts that are becoming ever broader and in which
national States show limits in their capacity to govern the rapid processes of
change that effect international economic and financial relations. This
situation leads businesses to take on new and greater responsibilities with
respect to the past. Never has their role been so decisive with regard to the
authentic integral development of humanity in solidarity. Equally decisive in
this sense is their level of awareness that “development either becomes shared
in common by every part of the world or it undergoes a process of regression
even in zones marked by constant progress. This tells us a great deal about the
nature of authentic development: either all the nations of the world
participate, or it will not be true development”.[717]
Notes: [717] John Paul II, Encyclical
Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 17: AAS 80 (1988), 532.
[43] The next day he decided to go to Galilee, and he
found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me." [44] Now Philip was
from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter. [45] Philip found Nathanael and
told him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and
also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth." [46] But
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip
said to him, "Come and see." [47] Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward
him and said of him, "Here is a true Israelite. There is no duplicity in
him." [48] Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus
answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the
fig tree." [49] Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of
God; you are the King of Israel." [50] Jesus answered and said to him,
"Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You
will see greater things than this." [51] And he said to him, "Amen,
amen, I say to you, you will see the sky opened and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man."
CSDC 34. The revelation in Christ of the mystery of
God as Trinitarian love is at the same time the revelation of the vocation of
the human person to love. This revelation sheds light on every aspect of the
personal dignity and freedom of men and women, and on the depths of their
social nature. “Being a person in the image and likeness of God ... involves
existing in a relationship, in relation to the other ‘I'”[36], because God
himself, one and triune, is the communion of the Father, of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit. In the communion of love that is God, and in which the Three
Divine Persons mutually love one another and are the One God, the human person
is called to discover the origin and goal of his existence and of history.
The Council Fathers, in the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, teach
that “the Lord Jesus Christ, when praying to the Father ‘that they may all be
one ... as we are one' (Jn 17:21-22), has opened up new horizons closed
to human reason by implying that there is a certain parallel between the union
existing among the divine Persons and the union of the children of God in truth
and love. It follows, then, that if man is the only creature on earth that God
has willed for its own sake, man can fully discover his true self only in a
sincere giving of himself (cf. Lk 17:33)”[37].
Notes: [36] John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem, 7: AAS 80
(1988), 1664. [37] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution
Gaudium et Spes, 24: AAS 58 (1966), 1045.
[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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