Saturday, January 24, 2015
John 8, 21-30 + CSDC and CV
John 8, 21-30 +
CSDC and CV
CV 79a Development needs Christians
with their arms raised towards God in prayer, Christians moved by the
knowledge that truth-filled love, caritas in veritate, from which
authentic development proceeds, is not produced by us, but given to us. For
this reason, even in the most difficult and complex times, besides recognizing
what is happening, we must above all else turn to God's love.
CSDC 442. Because of the globalization of problems, it
has become more urgent than ever to stimulate international political action
that pursues the goals of peace and development through the adoption of
coordinated measures.[916] The Magisterium recognizes that the interdependence
among men and nations takes on a moral dimension and is the determining factor
for relations in the modern world in the economic, cultural, political and
religious sense. In this context it is hoped that there will be a revision of
international organizations, a process that “presupposes the overcoming of
political rivalries and the renouncing of all desire to manipulate these
organizations, which exist solely for the common good”,[917] for the purpose of
achieving “a greater degree of international ordering”.[918] In particular,
intergovernmental structures must effectively perform their functions of
control and guidance in the economic field because the attainment of the common
good has become a goal that is beyond the reach of individual States, even if
they are dominant in terms of power, wealth, and political strength.[919]
International agencies must moreover guarantee the attainment of that equality which
is the basis of the right of all to participate in the process of full
development, duly respecting legitimate differences.[920]
Notes: [916] Cf. Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Populorum
Progressio, 51-55 and 77-79: AAS 59 (1967), 282-284, 295-296. [917]
John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 43: AAS
80 (1988), 575. [918] John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei
Socialis, 43: AAS 80 (1988), 575; cf. John Paul II, Message for the
2004 World Day of Peace, 7: AAS 96 (2004), 118. [919] Cf. John Paul II,
Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 58: AAS 83 (1991), 863-864.
[920] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 33,
39: AAS 80 (1988), 557-559, 566-568.
[21] He said to them again, "I am going away
and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you
cannot come." [22] So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill
himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" [23]
He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above.
You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. [24] That is why I
told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM,
you will die in your sins." [25] So they said to him, "Who are
you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning. [26] I
have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true,
and what I heard from him I tell the world." [27] They did not realize
that he was speaking to them of the Father. [28] So Jesus said (to them),
"When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and
that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. [29] The
one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what
is pleasing to him." [30] Because he spoke this way, many came to believe
in him.
CSDC 40. The universality and integrality of the
salvation wrought by Christ makes indissoluble the link between the
relationship that the person is called to have with God and the responsibility
he has towards his neighbour in the concrete circumstances of history. This
is sensed, though not always without some confusion or misunderstanding, in
humanity's universal quest for truth and meaning, and it becomes the
cornerstone of God's covenant with Israel, as attested by the tablets of the
Law and the preaching of the Prophets. This link finds a clear and precise
expression in the teaching of Jesus Christ and is definitively confirmed by the
supreme witness of the giving of his life, in obedience to the Father's will
and out of love for his brothers and sisters. To the scribe who asks him “Which
commandment is the first of all?” (Mk 12:28), Jesus answers: “The
first is: ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind, and with all your strength'. The second is
this: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself'. There is no other
commandment greater than these” (Mk 12:29-31). Inextricably
linked in the human heart are the relationship with God — recognized as Creator
and Father, the source and fulfilment of life and of salvation — and openness
in concrete love towards man, who must be treated as another self, even if he
is an enemy (cf. Mt 5:43-44). In man's inner dimension are rooted,
in the final analysis, the commitment to justice and solidarity, to the
building up of a social, economic and political life that corresponds to God's
plan.
[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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