Friday, January 23, 2015
John 8, 12-20 + CSDC and CV
John 8, 12-20 + CSDC and CV
CV 78d God's love calls us to move beyond the limited
and the ephemeral, it gives us the courage to continue seeking and working for
the benefit of all, even if this cannot be achieved immediately and if what
we are able to achieve, alongside political authorities and those working in
the field of economics, is always less than we might wish
[158]. God gives us the strength to fight and to suffer for love of the
common good, because he is our All, our greatest hope.
Notes: [158] Cf. Benedict XVI,
Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi, 35: loc. cit., 1013-1014.
CSDC 441. Concern for an ordered and peaceful coexistence
within the human family prompts the Magisterium to insist on the need to
establish “some universal public authority acknowledged as such by all and
endowed with effective power to safeguard, on the behalf of all, security,
regard for justice, and respect for rights”.[913] In the course of history,
despite the changing viewpoints of the different eras, there has been a
constant awareness of the need for a similar authority to respond to worldwide
problems arising from the quest for the common good: it is essential that such
an authority arise from mutual agreement and that it not be imposed, nor must
it be understood as a kind of “global super-State”.[914] Political authority
exercised at the level of the international community must be regulated by law,
ordered to the common good and respectful of the principle of subsidiarity.
“The public authority of the world community is not intended to limit the
sphere of action of the public authority of the individual political community,
much less to take its place. On the contrary, its purpose is to create, on a
world basis, an environment in which the public authorities of each political
community, their citizens and intermediate associations can carry out their
tasks, fulfil their duties and exercise their rights with greater
security”.[915]
Notes: [913] Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium
et Spes, 82: AAS 58 (1966), 1105; cf. John XXIII, Encyclical Letter
Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963), 293; Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum
Progressio, 78: AAS 59 (1967), 295. [914] John Paul II, Message for
the 2003 World Day of Peace, 6: AAS 95 (2003), 344. [915] John XXIII,
Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris: AAS 55 (1963), 294-295.
[12] Jesus spoke
to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me
will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." [13] So the
Pharisees said to him, "You testify on your own behalf, so your testimony
cannot be verified." [14] Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I
do testify on my own behalf, my testimony can be verified, because I know where
I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or
where I am going. [15] You judge by appearances, but I do not judge anyone.
[16] And even if I should judge, my judgment is valid, because I am not alone,
but it is I and the Father who sent me. [17] Even in your law it is written
that the testimony of two men can be verified. [18] I testify on my behalf and
so does the Father who sent me." [19] So they said to him, "Where is
your father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If
you knew me, you would know my Father also." [20] He spoke these words
while teaching in the treasury in the temple area. But no one arrested him,
because his hour had not yet come.
CSDC 39. The salvation offered by God to
his children requires their free response and acceptance. It is in this
that faith consists, and it is through this that “man freely commits his entire
self to God”[40], responding to God's prior and superabundant love (cf. 1 Jn
4:10) with concrete love for his brothers and sisters, and with steadfast hope
because “he who promised is faithful” (Heb 10:23). In fact, the divine
plan of salvation does not consign human creatures to a state of mere passivity
or of lesser status in relation to their Creator, because their relationship to
God, whom Jesus Christ reveals to us and in whom he freely makes us sharers by
the working of the Holy Spirit, is that of a child to its parent: the very
relationship that Jesus lives with the Father (cf. Jn 15-17; Gal 4:6-7).
Notes: [40]
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum, 5:
AAS 58 (1966), 819.
[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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