John 7, 10-24 + CSDC and CV

John 7, 10-24 + CSDC and CV

CV 77a The supremacy of technology tends to prevent people from recognizing anything that cannot be explained in terms of matter alone. Yet everyone experiences the many immaterial and spiritual dimensions of life. Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. We should never cease to marvel at these things.

The universal moral law, written on the human heart, must be considered effective and indelible  

CSDC 436. To bring about and consolidate an international order that effectively guarantees peaceful mutual relations among peoples, the same moral law that governs the life of men must also regulate relations among States: “a moral law the observance of which should be inculcated and promoted by the public opinion of all the nations and of all the States with such a unanimity of voice and force that no one would dare to call it into question or to attenuate its binding force”.[894] The universal moral law, written on the human heart, must be considered effective and indelible as the living expression of the shared conscience of humanity, a “grammar”[895] on which to build the future of the world. 

Notes: [894] Pius XII, Christmas Radio Message (24 December 1941): AAS 34 (1942), 16. [895] John Paul II, Address to the Fiftieth General Assembly of the United Nations (5 October 1995), 3: L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 11 October 1995, p. 8.

(Jn 7, 10-24) My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me     

[10] But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but (as it were) in secret. [11] The Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying, "Where is he?" [12] And there was considerable murmuring about him in the crowds. Some said, "He is a good man," (while) others said, "No; on the contrary, he misleads the crowd." [13] Still, no one spoke openly about him because they were afraid of the Jews. [14] When the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple area and began to teach. [15] The Jews were amazed and said, "How does he know scripture without having studied?" [16] Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not my own but is from the one who sent me. [17] Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own. [18] Whoever speaks on his own seeks his own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is truthful, and there is no wrong in him. [19] Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?" [20] The crowd answered, "You are possessed! Who is trying to kill you?" [21] Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work and all of you are amazed [22] because of it. Moses gave you circumcision - not that it came from Moses but rather from the patriarchs - and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. [23 If a man can receive circumcision on a sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole person well on a sabbath? [24] Stop judging by appearances, but judge justly."   

CSDC 109. The likeness with God shows that the essence and existence of man are constitutively related to God in the most profound manner.[205] This is a relationship that exists in itself, it is therefore not something that comes afterwards and is not added from the outside. The whole of man's life is a quest and a search for God. This relationship with God can be ignored or even forgotten or dismissed, but it can never be eliminated. Indeed, among all the world's visible creatures, only man has a “capacity for God” (“homo est Dei capax”).[206] The human being is a personal being created by God to be in relationship with him; man finds life and self-expression only in relationship, and tends naturally to God.[207] 

Notes: [205] Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 356, 358. [206] Catechism of the Catholic Church, title of Chapter 1, Section 1, Part 1; cf. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 12: AAS 58 (1966), 1034; John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae, 34: AAS 87 (1995), 440. [207] Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Evangelium Vitae, 35: AAS 87 (1995), 440-441; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1721.

[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)]