Saturday, March 14, 2015
John 20, 11-18 + CSDC and CV
John 20, 11-18 +
CSDC and CV
CV 16 a. In Populorum Progressio, Paul VI taught that progress, in its
origin and essence, is first and foremost a vocation: “in the design of
God, every man is called upon to develop and fulfil himself, for every life is
a vocation.” [34] This is what gives legitimacy to the Church's involvement in
the whole question of development. If development were concerned with merely technical
aspects of human life, and not with the meaning of man's pilgrimage through
history in company with his fellow human beings, nor with identifying the goal
of that journey, then the Church would not be entitled to speak on it. Paul VI,
like Leo XIII before him in Rerum Novarum
[35], knew that he was carrying out a duty proper to
his office by shedding the light of the Gospel on the social questions of his
time [36].
Notes: [34] No. 15: loc. cit., 265. [35] Cf.
ibid., 2: loc. cit., 258; Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum (15 May 1891): Leonis XIII P.M.
Acta, XI, Romae 1892, 97-144; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 8:
loc. cit., 519-520; Id., Encyclical Letter Centesimus Annus, 5: loc. cit., 799.
CSDC 534. The Church's social doctrine is a privileged
instrument of dialogue between Christian communities and the civil and
political community. It is an appropriate tool for promoting and cultivating
attitudes of authentic and productive cooperation in ways adapted to the
circumstances. The commitment of civil and political authorities, called to
serve the personal and social vocation of mankind according to their own areas
of competence and with the means available to them, can find in the social
teaching of the Church an important support and a rich source of inspiration.
[11] but Mary stayed outside the tomb
weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb [12] and saw two angels
in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the body of
Jesus had been. [13] And they said to her, "Woman, why are you
weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken my Lord, and I don't
know where they laid him." [14] When she had said this, she turned around
and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. [15] Jesus said to her,
"Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She thought
it was the gardener and said to him, "Sir, if you carried him away, tell
me where you laid him, and I will take him." [16] Jesus said to her,
"Mary!" She turned and said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni,"
which means Teacher. [17] Jesus said to her, "Stop holding on to me, for I
have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am
going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" [18] Mary of
Magdala went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord,"
and what he told her.
CSDC 543. It is the proper duty of the lay faithful to
proclaim the Gospel with an exemplary witness of life rooted in Christ and
lived in temporal realities: the family; professional commitment in the world
of work, culture, science and research; the exercise of social, economic and
political responsibilities. All secular human realities — both personal and
social, including various environments and historical situations, as well as
structures and institutions — are the context in which the lay Christian lives
and works. These realities are places where God's love is received; the
commitment of the lay faithful must correspond to this vision and is to be
considered an expression of evangelical charity; “for the lay faithful to be
present and active in the world is not only an anthropological and sociological
reality, but in a specific way, a theological and ecclesiological reality as
well”[1141].
Notes: [1141] John Paul II,
Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, 15: AAS 81
(1989), 415.
[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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