Posted on 10/26/2013 12:06:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
IRVING — In the powerful words of Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, a member of Pope Francis’ circle of advisers, the work started in Vatican II 50 years ago will reach fruition in the Catholic Church’s push toward “New Evangelization.”
Delivering the keynote address at Friday’s opening of the University of Dallas Ministry Conference in Las Colinas, Maradiaga described a contemporary church “that only has a future by humbly trying to follow Jesus.”
“Jesus was not rich. He lived as a poor villager. He didn’t want to ingratiate himself with the powers of the world,” Maradiaga told the packed hall at the Irving Convention Center. “If the church has a mission, it is to manifest the deeds of Jesus.
“As Pope Francis said, we have to reach out to the periphery of the world and proclaim the Kingdom of God,” he said. “Even Jesus didn’t proclaim himself. He proclaimed the kingdom.”
Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa in Honduras, said the church must break down the walls between the ordained hierarchy and the laity, with all Catholics becoming “the suffering servant.”
“There is not a dual classification of Christians,” he said. “The church as a society of unequals disappears. … We are here to serve, and that requires lowering ourselves to become servants.”
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I saw the movie and you're wrong.
We're all called to be servants by exercising the virtue of charity, not just toward the poor in material ways, but toward everyone God places in our path.
1970 The Law of the Gospel requires us to make the decisive choice between "the two ways" and to put into practice the words of the Lord.26 It is summed up in the Golden Rule, "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; this is the law and the prophets."27 The entire Law of the Gospel is contained in the "new commandment" of Jesus, to love one another as he has loved us.28
Catechism of the Catholic Church
“Print the legend.”
??? So if Jesus was poor He would have turned it into beer?
I think wintertime is implying that poor people would not have held a wedding at which they served wine to their guests. Another possibility is that better-off people holding a wedding would not have invited Jesus, his mother, and his disciples if Jesus was poor.
The first possibility does not seem accurate to me. Poor people save up and/or ask for help from their friends and relatives in order to celebrate their family events. Regarding the second possibility, the society of Judea in the relevant period gave much more weight to tribal and family affiliation than to “socioeconomic class” as it has developed up to the present.
The point is that we shouldn’t assume that Jesus was poor.
The facts in the Gospels can be interpreted in a variety of ways.
What we shouldn’t do is make up things that aren’t in the Gospels at all, such as ownership of a donkey, and then use those non-facts to draw conclusions.
“We’re all called to be servants by exercising the virtue of charity, ...”
No, we are called to exercise charity. Servants engage in servitude. Perhaps I misunderstand your working definition of “servant.” Please enlighten me.
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"What is charity? The virtue by which you love God above all things and your neighbor as yourself for the love of God. "And now there remain faith, hope and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity." (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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"Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such. There will always be suffering which cries out for consolation and help. There will always be loneliness. There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love of neighbour is indispensable"
ENCYCLICAL LETTER DEUS CARITAS EST OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF BENEDICT XVI
Thank you for your instructions on Charity and Love.
Thank you also for citing that chapter of Corinthians. The New American Bible (post Vatican II) rewrote that chapter, substituting the word Love at all eight mentions of the word Charity. (No wonder Catholics are confused!) I, like you, prefer the original, more accurate version.
And the language in the older translation is so much more poetic. I recently bought a copy of the "Catholic Answers" NAB, and the verbiage seems so flat in comparison to the Douay Rheims translation. Seems as though beauty (along with precision) has been sacrificed for the sake of readability.
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