Saturday, August 12, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 331 – Part I.
(Youcat answer) All men have the same dignity, but not all of
them meet with the same living conditions. In cases where injustice is
man-made, it contradicts the Gospel. In cases where men have been endowed by
God with different gifts and talents, God is asking us to rely on one another:
in charity one should make up for what the other lacks.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 1946) The differences among persons
belong to God's plan, who wills that we should need one another. These
differences should encourage charity.
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) There is a
kind of inequality among men that does not come from God but rather originates
in societal conditions, especially in the unjust distribution of raw materials,
land, and capital worldwide. God expects us to remove from the world everything
that is plainly contrary to the Gospel and disregards human dignity. Yet there
is another sort of inequality among men that is quite in keeping with God’s
will: inequality in talents, initial conditions, and opportunities. These are
an indication that being human means being there for others in charity so as to
share and to promote life.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1937) These differences belong to
God's plan, who wills that each receive what he needs from others, and that those
endowed with particular "talents" share the benefits with those who
need them. These differences encourage and often oblige persons to practice
generosity, kindness, and sharing of goods; they foster the mutual enrichment
of cultures: I distribute the virtues quite diversely; I do not give all of
them to each person, but some to one, some to others.... I shall give
principally charity to one; justice to another; humility to this one, a living
faith to that one.... And so I have given many gifts and graces, both spiritual
and temporal, with such diversity that I have not given everything to one
single person, so that you may be constrained to practice charity towards one
another.... I have willed that one should need another and that all should be
my ministers in distributing the graces and gifts they have received from me
(St. Catherine of Siena, Dial. I,
7).
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