Monday, January 5, 2015
John 5, 10-18 + CSDC and CV
John 5, 10-18 +
CSDC and CV
CV 73a Linked to technological development is the increasingly pervasive presence
of the means of social communications. It is almost impossible today to
imagine the life of the human family without them. For better or for worse,
they are so integral a part of life today that it seems quite absurd to
maintain that they are neutral — and hence unaffected by any moral
considerations concerning people. Often such views, stressing the strictly
technical nature of the media, effectively support their subordination to economic
interests intent on dominating the market and, not least, to attempts to impose
cultural models that serve ideological and political agendas.
CSDC 375. For the Church's social doctrine, the
economy “is only one aspect and one dimension of the whole of human activity.
If economic life is absolutized, if the production and consumption of goods
become the centre of social life and society's only value, not subject to any other
value, the reason is to be found not so much in the economic system itself as
in the fact that the entire socio-cultural system, by ignoring the ethical and
religious dimension, has been weakened, and ends up limiting itself to the
production of goods and services alone”.[770] The life of man, just like the
social life of the community, must not be reduced to its materialistic
dimension, even if material goods are extremely necessary both for mere
survival and for improving the quality of life. “An increased sense of God and
increased self-awareness are fundamental to any full development of human
society”.[771]
Notes: [770] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 39: AAS
83 (1991), 842. [771] Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2441.
[10] So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It
is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." [11] He
answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Take up your mat and
walk.'" [12] They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Take it
up and walk'?" [13] The man who was healed did not know who it was, for
Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there. [14] After this Jesus
found him in the temple area and said to him, "Look, you are well; do not
sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you." [15] The man went
and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. [16] Therefore,
the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath. [17] But Jesus
answered them, "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work."
[18] For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not
only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself
equal to God.
CSDC 25. The precepts of the sabbatical and
jubilee years constitute a kind of social doctrine in miniature[28]. They
show how the principles of justice and social solidarity are inspired by the
gratuitousness of the salvific event wrought by God, and that they do not have
a merely corrective value for practices dominated by selfish interests and
objectives, but must rather become, as a prophecy of the future, the normative
points of reference to which every generation in Israel must conform if it
wishes to be faithful to its God. These principles become the focus of the
Prophets' preaching, which seeks to internalize them. God's Spirit, poured
into the human heart — the Prophets proclaim — will make these same sentiments
of justice and solidarity, which reside in the Lord's heart, take root in you
(cf. Jer 31:33 and Ezek 36:26-27). Then God's will, articulated
in the Decalogue given on Sinai, will be able to take root creatively in
man's innermost being. This process of internalization gives rise
to greater depth and realism in social action, making possible the
progressive universalization of attitudes of justice and solidarity, which
the people of the Covenant are called to have towards all men and women of
every people and nation.
Notes: [28] Cf.
John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente, 13: AAS
87 (1995), 14.
[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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