Thursday, February 5, 2015
John 11, 1-4 + CSDC and CV
John 11, 1-4 +
CSDC and CV
CV 4a Because it is filled with truth, charity can be understood in the
abundance of its values, it can be shared and communicated. Truth, in
fact, is lógos which creates diá-logos, and hence communication
and communion. Truth, by enabling men and women to let go of their subjective
opinions and impressions, allows them to move beyond cultural and historical
limitations and to come together in the assessment of the value and substance
of things. Truth opens and unites our minds in the lógos of love: this
is the Christian proclamation and testimony of charity.
CSDC 467. Responsibility for the environment, the common
heritage of mankind, extends not only to present needs but also to those of the
future. “We have inherited from past generations, and we have benefited from
the work of our contemporaries: for this reason we have obligations towards
all, and we cannot refuse to interest ourselves in those who will come after
us, to enlarge the human family”.[984] This is a responsibility that present
generations have towards those of the future,[985] a responsibility that also
concerns individual States and the international community.
Notes: [984] Paul II, Encyclical
Letter Populorum Progressio, 17: AAS 59 (1967), 266. [985] Cf.
John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 37: AAS 83
(1991), 840.
[1] Now a man was
ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. [2] Mary
was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with
her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. [3] So the sisters sent word to
him, saying, "Master, the one you love is ill." [4] When Jesus heard
this he said, "This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory
of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
CSDC 261. During
his earthly ministry Jesus works tirelessly, accomplishing powerful deeds to
free men and women from sickness, suffering and death. The Sabbath — which
the Old Testament had put forth as a day of liberation and which, when observed
only formally, lost its authentic significance — is reaffirmed by Jesus in its
original meaning: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mk
2:27). By healing people on this day of rest (cf. Mt 12:9-14; Mk
3:1-6; Lk 6:6-11, 13:10-17, 14:1-6), he wishes to show that the Sabbath
is his, because he is truly the Son of God, and that it is the day on which men
should dedicate themselves to God and to others. Freeing people from evil,
practising brotherhood and sharing: these give to work its noblest meaning,
that which allows humanity to set out on the path to the eternal Sabbath, when
rest will become the festive celebration to which men and women inwardly
aspire. It is precisely in orienting humanity towards this experience of God's
Sabbath and of his fellowship of life that work is the inauguration on earth of
the new creation.
[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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