This is love in its most radical form. danny7velasquez7 • 26 de Julio de 2013 • 1.451 Palabras (6 Páginas) • 292 Visitas. Pope Gregory the Great († 604) mentions the diaconia of Naples, while in Rome the diaconiae are documented from the seventh and eighth centuries. Having reflected on the nature of love and its meaning in biblical faith, we are left with two questions concerning our own attitude: can we love God without seeing him? For this reason it was most opportune that my venerable predecessor Paul VI established the Pontifical Council Cor Unum as the agency of the Holy See responsible for orienting and coordinating the organizations and charitable activities promoted by the Catholic Church. What we have here, though, is really an inhuman philosophy. Eros needs God? The Church has an indirect duty here, in that she is called to contribute to the purification of reason and to the reawakening of those moral forces without which just structures are neither established nor prove effective in the long run. " God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him " (1 Jn 4.16). For other uses, see God is Love. b) The Church is God's family in the world. It focuses on Love as the central reality of existence. When we consider the immensity of others' needs, we can, on the one hand, be driven towards an ideology that would aim at doing what God's governance of the world apparently cannot: fully resolving every problem. My great predecessor John Paul II left us a trilogy of social Encyclicals: Laborem Exercens (1981), Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987) and finally Centesimus Annus (1991). eis id: 6 autorius: popiežius benediktas xvi originalo pavadinimas: lettera enciclica deus caritas est del sommo pontefice benedetto xvi ai vescovi ai presbiteri e ai diaconi alle persone consacrate e a tutti i fedeli laici sull'amore cristiano data: 2005-12-25 pirminis Šaltinis: „bažnyčios žinios" nr. El padre empieza explicándonos que el tema al cual se va a referir es el del amor, pero él dice que no podemos quedarnos solo con el conocimiento de lo que es el amor . Love is therefore the service that the Church carries out in order to attend constantly to man's sufferings and his needs, including material needs. The Prophets, particularly Hosea and Ezekiel, described God's passion for his people using boldly erotic images. The more we do for others, the more we understand and can appropriate the words of Christ: “We are useless servants” (Lk 17:10). To do all we can with what strength we have, however, is the task which keeps the good servant of Jesus Christ always at work: “The love of Christ urges us on” (2 Cor 5:14). Its aim is simply to help purify reason and to contribute, here and now, to the acknowledgment and attainment of what is just. R. Descartes, Œuvres, ed. The biblical account of creation speaks of the solitude of Adam, the first man, and God's decision to give him a helper. From God's standpoint, faith liberates reason from its blind spots and therefore helps it to be ever more fully itself. As the years went by and the Church spread further afield, the exercise of charity became established as one of her essential activities, along with the administration of the sacraments and the proclamation of the word: love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential to her as the ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel. As the one responsible for the care of the poor in Rome, Lawrence had been given a period of time, after the capture of the Pope and of Lawrence's fellow deacons, to collect the treasures of the Church and hand them over to the civil authorities. An intoxicated and undisciplined eros, then, is not an ascent in “ecstasy” towards the Divine, but a fall, a degradation of man. Often the deepest cause of suffering is the very absence of God. As Saint Paul says, “Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (1 Cor 10:17). 25. The letter explores the concept of love at a theological and philosophical level, discussing eros, agape, and philia. Dreptate și caritate. "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" ( 1 Jn 4:16 ). Let us first of all bring to mind the vast semantic range of the word “love”: we speak of love of country, love of one's profession, love between friends, love of work, love between parents and children, love between family members, love of neighbour and love of God. This encyclical begins with a quotation from the Vulgate, First Epistle of John, chapter 4, verse 16 translated from the original Greek, Ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν (Ho Theos agape estin[7]). Only by keeping in mind this Christological and sacramental basis can we correctly understand Jesus' teaching on love. Jesus united into a single precept this commandment of love for God and the commandment of love for neighbour found in the Book of Leviticus: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself” (19:18; cf. Only my readiness to encounter my neighbour and to show him love makes me sensitive to God as well. God loves, and his love may certainly be called eros, yet it is also totally agape.[7]. The biblical account thus concludes with a prophecy about Adam: “Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh” (Gen 2:24). There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a . There is only one God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who is thus the God of all. SI Dios está cercano a nosotros y viene hacia nosotros, en los sacramentos, la fe de la Iglesia, otras personas, intervenciones en nuestra vida, signos de la creación Podemos amar al prójimo al que queremos y al que no? An authentically religious attitude prevents man from presuming to judge God, accusing him of allowing poverty and failing to have compassion for his creatures. Deus caritas est (latín: Dios es amor) es la primera encíclica escrita por el Papa Benedicto XVI, y trata el tema del amor cristiano. It is the first encyclical to be published since the Vatican decided to assert copyright in the official writings of the Pope. [19] The State may not impose religion, yet it must guarantee religious freedom and harmony between the followers of different religions. "You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all your soul and all your might." Deuteronomy 6: 4-5 Uploaded on Mar 22, 2012 Clark Ferreira + Follow eucharistic communion fruitful link human beings 29. As Saint Paul says: “He who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him” (1 Cor 6:17). The anti-culture of death, which finds expression for example in drug use, is thus countered by an unselfish love which shows itself to be a culture of life by the very willingness to “lose itself” (cf. This was to fulfil the promise of “rivers of living water” that would flow out of the hearts of believers, through the outpouring of the Spirit (cf. At such times, a living relationship with Christ is decisive if we are to keep on the right path, without falling into an arrogant contempt for man, something not only unconstructive but actually destructive, or surrendering to a resignation which would prevent us from being guided by love in the service of others. (9 votes) Very easy. Uma escolha bem diferente de seu antecessor Karol Wojtyla, que mesmo com as condições de saúde ruins, levou sua cruz até o fim. Deus caritas est Latin for 'God is Love' Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI; Signature date 25 December 2005: Subject: Christian love: Pages: 95 . His death on the Cross is the culmination of that turning of God against himself in which he gives himself in order to raise man up and save him. By their own inner logic, these initial, somewhat philosophical reflections on the essence of love have now brought us to the threshold of biblical faith. Lead us to him. [13] And when Ignatius of Antioch († c. 117) described the Church of Rome as “presiding in charity (agape)”,[14] we may assume that with this definition he also intended in some sense to express her concrete charitable activity. The Vatican, through the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, sponsored a conference in Rome to discuss the themes of the encyclical on 23 January and 24 January 2006, involving Liliana Cavani (director of films including The Night Porter and Ripley's Game) and James Wolfensohn (former head of the World Bank). b) Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such. Here we see the necessary interplay between love of God and love of neighbour which the First Letter of John speaks of with such insistence. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us”. Those who work for the Church's charitable organizations must be distinguished by the fact that they do not merely meet the needs of the moment, but they dedicate themselves to others with heartfelt concern, enabling them to experience the richness of their humanity. We can thus understand how agape also became a term for the Eucharist: there God's own agape comes to us bodily, in order to continue his work in us and through us. But charitable commitment has a meaning that goes well beyond mere philanthropy. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. Love of neighbour is thus shown to be possible in the way proclaimed by the Bible, by Jesus. The Second Vatican Council rightly observed that “among the signs of our times, one particularly worthy of note is a growing, inescapable sense of solidarity between all peoples.”[25] State agencies and humanitarian associations work to promote this, the former mainly through subsidies or tax relief, the latter by making available considerable resources. It is part of love's growth towards higher levels and inward purification that it now seeks to become definitive, and it does so in a twofold sense: both in the sense of exclusivity (this particular person alone) and in the sense of being “for ever”. Union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. The first part is more speculative, since I wanted here—at the beginning of my Pontificate—to clarify some essential facts concerning the love which God mysteriously and gratuitously offers to man, together with the intrinsic link between that Love and the reality of human love. The Apostles, who had been entrusted primarily with “prayer” (the Eucharist and the liturgy) and the “ministry of the word”, felt over-burdened by “serving tables”, so they decided to reserve to themselves the principal duty and to designate for the other task, also necessary in the Church, a group of seven persons. A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. More than just statically receiving the incarnate Logos, we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving. The modern age, particularly from the nineteenth century on, has been dominated by various versions of a philosophy of progress whose most radical form is Marxism. "[16], "The light of faith: origin, history and horizon of the christianism", Pope's first encyclical is disquisition on love and sex, The pope needs a theologian? But its essential core remained: within the community of believers there can never be room for a poverty that denies anyone what is needed for a dignified life. In the early Church, in fact, with regard to the daily distribution to widows, a disparity had arisen between Hebrew speakers and Greek speakers. There will always be loneliness. The figures of saints such as Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, John of God, Camillus of Lellis, Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Giuseppe B. Cottolengo, John Bosco, Luigi Orione, Teresa of Calcutta to name but a few—stand out as lasting models of social charity for all people of good will. In the Catholic Church, and also in the other Churches and Ecclesial Communities, new forms of charitable activity have arisen, while other, older ones have taken on new life and energy. By prayer”. 6). That love between man and woman which is neither planned nor willed, but somehow imposes itself upon human beings, was called eros by the ancient Greeks. She is lowly: her only desire is to be the handmaid of the Lord (cf. The consciousness that, in Christ, God has given himself for us, even unto death, must inspire us to live no longer for ourselves but for him, and, with him, for others. Here we find a specific reference—as we have seen—to the fertility cults and their abuse of eros, but also a description of the relationship of fidelity between Israel and her God. Indeed, the prostitutes in the temple, who had to bestow this divine intoxication, were not treated as human beings and persons, but simply used as a means of arousing “divine madness”: far from being goddesses, they were human persons being exploited. People of the present are sacrificed to the moloch of the future—a future whose effective realization is at best doubtful. The pope concedes that love is indeed "ecstasy," namely, it is in its essence to go "out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving, and thus toward an authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God" (p. 6). [1] Here the German philosopher was expressing a widely-held perception: doesn't the Church, with all her commandments and prohibitions, turn to bitterness the most precious thing in life? Sentiments come and go. THE PRACTICE OF LOVE BY THE CHURCH AS A “COMMUNITY OF LOVE”, The Church's charitable activity as a manifestation of Trinitarian love. Until that time, the concept of “neighbour” was understood as referring essentially to one's countrymen and to foreigners who had settled in the land of Israel; in other words, to the closely-knit community of a single country or people. They constantly experience the gift of her goodness and the unfailing love which she pours out from the depths of her heart. 37. The sacramental “mysticism”, grounded in God's condescension towards us, operates at a radically different level and lifts us to far greater heights than anything that any human mystical elevation could ever accomplish. He loves us, he makes us see and experience his love, and since he has “loved us first”, love can also blossom as a response within us. Deus Caritas. Mas, para todos, sempre será o "Papa da renúncia". This heart sees where love is needed and acts accordingly. So God forms woman from the rib of man. É com profundo pesar e grande gratidão que a Fundação Pontifícia ACN se despede do Papa Emérito Bento XVI. The transition which he makes from the Law and the Prophets to the twofold commandment of love of God and of neighbour, and his grounding the whole life of faith on this central precept, is not simply a matter of morality—something that could exist apart from and alongside faith in Christ and its sacramental re-actualization. For her part, the Church, as the social expression of Christian faith, has a proper independence and is structured on the basis of her faith as a community which the State must recognize. [10] Cf. The increase in diversified organizations engaged in meeting various human needs is ultimately due to the fact that the command of love of neighbour is inscribed by the Creator in man's very nature. 394; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, can. All other powers in heaven and on earth thus appear secondary: “Omnia vincit amor” says Virgil in the Bucolics—love conquers all—and he adds: “et nos cedamus amori”—let us, too, yield to love. Love thus needs to be organized if it is to be an ordered service to the community. Or we can be tempted to give in to inertia, since it would seem that in any event nothing can be accomplished. Even less is it an attempt to impose on those who do not share the faith ways of thinking and modes of conduct proper to faith. DEUS CARITAS EST.- 28. He also points to the example of Moses, who entered the tabernacle time and again, remaining in dialogue with God, so that when he emerged he could be at the service of his people. António Cartageno The text mentions the name of Mother Teresa four times, the last as a "saint" (despite the fact that she was not yet canonised) in such company as Francis of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, John of God, Camillus of Lellis, Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, Giuseppe B. Cottolengo, John Bosco, and Luigi Orione. The second important element now emerges: this God loves man. For this reason, I wish in my first Encyclical to speak of the love which God lavishes upon us and which we in turn must share with others. Anyone who needs me, and whom I can help, is my neighbour. Here Christians can see a dim prefigurement of the mystery of the Cross: so great is God's love for man that by becoming man he follows him even into death, and so reconciles justice and love. In one of his letters,[16] he wrote that the sole aspect of Christianity which had impressed him was the Church's charitable activity. Individuals who care for those in need must first be professionally competent: they should be properly trained in what to do and how to do it, and committed to continuing care. But it is also a purifying force for reason itself. Let us note straight away that the Greek Old Testament uses the word eros only twice, while the New Testament does not use it at all: of the three Greek words for love, eros, philia (the love of friendship) and agape, New Testament writers prefer the last, which occurs rather infrequently in Greek usage. Today, the term “love” has become one of the most frequently used and misused of words, a word to which we attach quite different meanings. The Latin title of an encyclical is taken from its first few words. There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love of neighbour is indispensable. It also explains the immense initiatives of human welfare and Christian formation, aimed above all at the very poor, who became the object of care firstly for the monastic and mendicant orders, and later for the various male and female religious institutes all through the history of the Church. [8] The Latin version of the First Epistle of John uses the same formulation, Deus caritas est, at the end of chapter 4, verse 8 translating the same phrase in Greek. God's love for us is fundamental for our lives, and it raises important questions about who God is and who we are. It found a vivid expression in the case of the deacon Lawrence († 258). is [15] Cf. eros. Since God has first loved us (cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici (30 December 1988), 41: AAS 81 (1989), 470-472. [27] I wish here to offer a special word of gratitude and appreciation to all those who take part in these activities in whatever way. This limit is now abolished. 1 Cor 13), teaches us that it is always more than activity alone: “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing” (v. 3). The divine power that Aristotle at the height of Greek philosophy sought to grasp through reflection, is indeed for every being an object of desire and of love —and as the object of love this divinity moves the world[6]—but in itself it lacks nothing and does not love: it is solely the object of love. In the Old Testament, the novelty of the Bible did not consist merely in abstract notions but in God's unpredictable and in some sense unprecedented activity. INTRODUCTION. Nowadays Christianity of the past is often criticized as having been opposed to the body; and it is quite true that tendencies of this sort have always existed. Without in any way detracting from this commandment of universal love, the Church also has a specific responsibility: within the ecclesial family no member should suffer through being in need. Here one might detect hints of ideas that are also found, for example, in the myth mentioned by Plato, according to which man was originally spherical, because he was complete in himself and self-sufficient. This is Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical. [2] In the religions, this attitude found expression in fertility cults, part of which was the “sacred” prostitution which flourished in many temples. These words from the First Letter of John . Immersed like everyone else in the dramatic complexity of historical events, they remain unshakably certain that God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. In philosophical and theological debate, these distinctions have often been radicalized to the point of establishing a clear antithesis between them: descending, oblative love—agape—would be typically Christian, while on the other hand ascending, possessive or covetous love —eros—would be typical of non-Christian, and particularly Greek culture. "God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16). How can I hand you over, O Israel! This was followed in 1931 by Pius XI's Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. His love, moreover, is an elective love: among all the nations he chooses Israel and loves her—but he does so precisely with a view to healing the whole human race. It is precisely at this point that God is revealed to be God and not man: “How can I give you up, O Ephraim! Enviado por . It is love itself that we must seek to give. Ele foi um amigo excepcional e apoiador da fundação, diz o presidente da ACN, Cardeal Mauro Piacenza: "O ensinamento do Papa Bento XVI, que dedicou sua primeira encíclica, 'Deus Caritas Est' ao tema da caridade, foi muito . Un Estado que no se rigiera según la justicia se . The Greeks—not unlike other cultures—considered eros principally as a kind of intoxication, the overpowering of reason by a “divine madness” which tears man away from his finite existence and enables him, in the very process of being overwhelmed by divine power, to experience supreme happiness. [13] These two positions have been an ongoing cause for debate in both Catholic and Protestant theology. Difficult. Amid this multiplicity of meanings, however, one in particular stands out: love between man and woman, where body and soul are inseparably joined and human beings glimpse an apparently irresistible promise of happiness. For other uses, see Deus caritas est (disambiguation). This I can offer them not only through the organizations intended for such purposes, accepting it perhaps as a political necessity. 27. Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? 30. DEUS CARITAS EST. The second half, based on a report prepared by the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, is less abstract, considering the charitable activities of the Church as an expression of love which draws its power from contemplative union with God.

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