Thursday, February 26, 2015
John 15, 14-27 + CSDC and CV
John 15, 14-27 +
CSDC and CV
CV 11b The Council probed more deeply what
had always belonged to the truth of the faith, namely that the Church, being at
God's service, is at the service of the world in terms of love and truth. Paul
VI set out from this vision in order to convey two important truths. The first
is that the whole Church, in all her being and acting — when she proclaims,
when she celebrates, when she performs works of charity — is engaged in
promoting integral human development. She has a public role over and above
her charitable and educational activities: all the energy she brings to the
advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity is manifested when she is
able to operate in a climate of freedom.
CSDC 502. The requirements of legitimate defence justify
the existence in States of armed forces, the activity of which should be at the
service of peace. Those who defend the security and freedom of a country, in
such a spirit, make an authentic contribution to peace.[1054] Everyone who
serves in the armed forces is concretely called to defend good, truth and
justice in the world. Many are those who, in such circumstances, have
sacrificed their lives for these values and in defence of innocent lives. Very
significant in this regard is the increasing number of military personnel
serving in multinational forces on humanitarian or peace-keeping missions
promoted by the United Nations.[1055]
Notes: [1054] Cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution
Gaudium et Spes, 79: AAS 58 (1966), 1102-1103; Catechism of the
Catholic Church, 2310. [1055] Cf. John Paul II, Message to the Third
International Meeting of Military Ordinaries (11 March 1994), 4: AAS 87
(1995), 74.
[14] You are my friends if you do
what I command you. [15] I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not
know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told
you everything I have heard from my Father. [16] It was not you who chose me,
but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so
that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. [17] This I
command you: love one another. [18] "If the world hates you, realize that
it hated me first. [19] If you belonged to the world, the world would love its
own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of
the world, the world hates you. [20] Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No
slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also
persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. [21] And they
will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know
the one who sent me. [22] If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have
no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. [23] Whoever hates me
also hates my Father. [24] If I had not done works among them that no one else
ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both
me and my Father. [25] But in order that the word written in their law might be
fulfilled, 'They hated me without cause.' [26] "When the Advocate comes
whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from
the Father, he will testify to me. [27] And you also testify, because you have
been with me from the beginning.
CSDC 35. Christian
revelation shines a new light on the identity, the vocation and the ultimate
destiny of the human person and the human race. Every person is created by God,
loved and saved in Jesus Christ, and fulfils himself by creating a network of
multiple relationships of love, justice and solidarity with other persons while
he goes about his various activities in the world. Human activity, when it aims
at promoting the integral dignity and vocation of the person, the quality of
living conditions and the meeting in solidarity of peoples and nations, is in
accordance with the plan of God, who does not fail to show his love and
providence to his children.
[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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