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Catholic Social Teaching ILM 2017. Why is CST important?. How or where does CST fit into Church?.
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How or where does CST fit into Church? • The Church's social doctrine is an integral part of her evangelizing ministry. Nothing that concerns the community of men and women — situations and problems regarding justice, freedom, development, relations between peoples, peace — is foreign to evangelization, and evangelization would be incomplete if it did not take into account the mutual demands continually made by the Gospel and by the concrete, personal and social life of man (85) • “This is not a marginal interest or activity, or one that is tacked on to the Church's mission, rather it is at the very heart of the Church’s ministry.” (67)
How? Paths of Mission Witness (through example and service) Dialogue (of life, inter-religious, secular) Proclamation (that invites conversion) Catholic Social Teaching, (justice, liberation, peace and the environment) Inculturation Prayer (liturgy, and contemplation) Forgiveness and mercy St. John Paul II
Joy of the Gospel | Evangelii Gaudium Communities of missionary disciples going forth in joy to share the Good News of God’s love at home and everywhere
EvangeliiGaudium • Amid the Crisis of Communal Commitment • Economy of Exclusion • Idolatry of Money • Financial System That Rule, Not Serve • Inequality that Spawns Violence • Social Dimension of Evangelization • Preferential Option for the Poor • Common Good • Peacemaking • Pope Francis Video Clip
Overview for Class • Syllabus • Reading • Classes • Paper • Approaches to CST • Thematic • Historical
God is love… • God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him 1 John 4:16 • This expresses the Christian image of God and resulting image of humanity and its destiny. Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est
We give what we received • For if we have received the love which restores meaning to our lives, how can we fail to share that love with others? EG8 • “Life grows by being given away, and it weakens in isolation and comfort. Indeed, those who enjoy life most are those who leave security on the shore and become excited by the mission of communicating life to others”. When the Church summons Christians to take up the task of evangelization, she is simply pointing to the source of authentic personal fulfillment. For “here we discover a profound law of reality: that life is attained and matures in the measure that it is offered up in order to give life to others. This is certainly what mission means”. EG 10
Salvation history in 3 movements Old Testament Acts / Letters Holy Spirit Fire & Wind Creator Father Word Jesus / Son Gospel stories
Act IOld Testament • Creation Stories • Abraham & Sarah • Moses • Prophets
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Our Creation Stories
Abraham and Sarah: Missionaries of Faith I will bless you abundantly and make your descendents as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore…and in your descendents all the nations of the earth shall find blessing.Gen 22:17-18
Moses: Missionary of Liberation Exodus, God’s mission to Hebrew slaves Depth and breadth of the mission
Exodus 3:1-17 • But the LORD said, "I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. So indeed the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have truly noted that the Egyptians are oppressing them. Come, now! I will send you to Pharaoh to lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."
The TEN COMMANDMENTS (Exodus 20:1-17) Then God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods besides Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on earth beneath or in the water under the earth…. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain…. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male servant or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet you neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Hungry and aliens • When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not be so thorough that you reap the field to its very edge, nor shall you glean the stray ears of grain. Likewise, you shall not pick your vineyard bare, nor gather up the grapes that have fallen. These things you shall leave for the poor and the alien. I, the LORD, am your God. • When an alien resides with you in your land, do not molest him. You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you; have the same love for him as for yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your God. Leviticus 19:9-10; 33-34
Loans and Pledges No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for he would be taking the debtor's sustenance as a pledge. If any man is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite in order to enslave him and sell him, the kidnaper shall be put to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst….. When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, you shall not enter his house to receive a pledge from him, but shall wait outside until the man to whom you are making the loan brings his pledge outside to you. If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge, but shall return it to him at sunset that he himself may sleep in it. Then he will bless you, and it will be a good deed of yours before the LORD, your God…. Deuteronomy 24:6-7
Dealing with the poor You shall not defraud a poor and needy hired servant, whether he be one of your own countrymen or one of the aliens who live in your communities. You shall pay him each day's wages before sundown on the day itself, since he is poor and looks forward to them. Otherwise he will cry to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty. You shall not violate the rights of the alien or of the orphan, nor take the clothing of a widow as a pledge. For, remember, you were once slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, ransomed you from there; that is why I command you to observe this rule. Deuteronomy 24:10-14
Harvest When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf there, you shall not go back to get it; let it be for the alien, the orphan or the widow, that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all your undertakings. When you knock down the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not go over the branches a second time; let what remains be for the alien, the orphan and the widow. When you pick your grapes, you shall not go over the vineyard a second time; let what remains be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. For remember that you were once slaves in Egypt; that is why I command you to observe this rule. Deuteronomy 24:17-22
Sabbath Day: Every 7th Day • Take care to keep holy the sabbath day as the LORD, your God, commanded you. Six days you may labor and do all your work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then, whether by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or ass or any of your beasts, or the alien who lives with you. Your male and female slave should rest as you do. For remember that you too were once slaves in Egypt, and the LORD, your God, brought you from there with his strong hand and outstretched arm. That is why the LORD, your God, has commanded you to observe the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Jubilee Year: Every 50th year • Proclamation of liberty (Leviticus 25:10) • Everyone returned to own land (Leviticus 25:10) • Treat poor with dignity, do not extract interest, do not enslave (Leviticus 25:36-41) • The land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine, and you are but aliens who have become my tenants. Therefore in every part of the country that you occupy, you must permit the land to be redeemed…I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. Leviticus 25: 23-24, 38.
Prophets: Missionaries of Justice Pointing out where the mission isn’t working or happening Justice = right relationship with God and others
Amos • 745-732 BCE • Northern Kingdom • Socio-politico-economic context
Crimes against God, against the poor Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they sell the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals. They trample the heads of the weak into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son and father go to the same prostitute, profaning my holy name. Upon garments taken in pledge they recline beside any altar; And the wine of those who have been fined they drink in the house of their god. Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, who were as tall as the cedars, and as strong as the oak trees. I destroyed their fruit above, and their roots beneath. It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites: I who raised up prophets among your sons, and nazirites among your young men. …Beware, I will crush you into the ground as a wagon crushes when laden with sheaves. Amos 2:6-16
Woe to those who turn judgment to wormwood and cast justice to the ground! They hate him who reproves at the gate and abhor him who speaks the truth. Therefore, because you have trampled upon the weak and exacted of them levies of grain, Though you have built houses of hewn stone, you shall not live in them! Though you have planted choice vineyards, you shall not drink their wine! Yes, I know how many are your crimes, how grievous your sins: Oppressing the just, accepting bribes, repelling the needy at the gate! Therefore the prudent man is silent at this time, for it is an evil time. Seek good and not evil, that you may live; Then truly will the LORD, the God of hosts, be with you as you claim! Hate evil and love good, and let justice prevail at the gate; Then it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will have pity on the remnant of Joseph. Amos 5: 7-15
Can good liturgymakeit all better? I hate, I spurn your feasts, I take no pleasure in your solemnities; Your cereal offerings I will not accept, nor consider your stall-fed peace offerings. Away with your noisy songs! I will not listen to the melodies of your harps. But if you would offer me holocausts, then let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream. Amos 5:21-24
Other Prophets • North • Hosea • South • Jeremiah • Micah • Isaiah
Jesus’ Mission Statement Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord." Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing." Luke 4:14-21
How did Jesus carry out his mission? What were the social justice implications? Encounter Preaching / teaching Healing Mighty works Prophetic witness Table Fellowship Service/Compassion Life, death and resurrection
