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9/2/2019 RCIA Session 10: The Two Great Commandments, The Universal Call to Holiness, Mercy and Justice, Social Teaching Session 10: Holiness, Mercy, Social Justice Advent Beginning of the liturgical year; 4 weeks long Purpose:

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RCIA

Session 10: The Two Great Commandments, The Universal Call to Holiness, Mercy and Justice, Social Teaching

Session 10: Holiness, Mercy, Social Justice

Advent

  • Beginning of the liturgical year; 4 weeks long
  • Purpose:

– Recall God’s Love in the Incarnation – Prepare the Church for the Lord’s Second Coming – Called to repent, reform, and turn back to God

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Advent

  • Encouraged: acts of penance and fasting
  • Reflects millennia of waiting for the Messiah

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Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – Dec 8

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The Song of Bernadette (1943)

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Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – Dec 8

  • Mary chosen from all eternity
  • To be pure, she was preserved from all sin

– And free from inclination to sin

  • “Full of grace” only possible

if no sin present

  • Jesus could not be united to

a fallen nature

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La Purísima Inmaculada Concepción (1678) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – Dec 8

Mary redeemed by her Son on the cross

– Graces applied – God outside of time

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Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – Dec 8

Dogma declared in 1854 by Pope Pius IX

“The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.” – Ineffabilis Deus, 1854

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Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

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Session 10: Holiness, Mercy, Social Justice

Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

I Am the Way

  • The Way back into friendship with the Father
  • Our leader and model

– “Love one another” -- John 15:12 – “Take up your cross” -- Luke 9:32 – Called to be laborers for Him – see Matthew 9:37

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Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

I Am the Truth

  • Jesus came to dispel…

– ignorance – doubts – despair – slavery (only the truth will set us free – see John 8:32) – worldly cares

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“What is truth?” (1890) by Nikolay Nikolayevich Ge

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Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

I Am the Life

“I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.” – John 11:25

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Christ Risen from the Tomb, Ambrogio Bergognone (c. 1470-1523), Samual H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

I Am the Life (cont.)

“I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” – John 8:12

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Jesus: The Way, The Truth, and The Life

I Am the Life (cont.)

  • “I am the bread of life…[h]e who eats my flesh

and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” – John 6:56

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Holiness and Joy

  • Holiness is the wellspring of

– freedom – peace – deep inner joy

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Holiness and Joy

  • A life of holiness can have

– sorrow – trials – tribulations

  • Holiness comes

by way of the cross

  • Deliberate sacrifice
  • f transient things

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Holiness and Joy

  • Requires knowing one’s own sinfulness and

the need for mercy

– No place for pride and self-righteousness

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Daily Examination of Conscience

“I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter.” – Matthew 12:36

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Last Judgment (c. 1435) by Stefan Lochner

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Daily Examination of Conscience

  • Continuing conversion is a daily need

– See our weaknesses – Areas of temptation – Repetitive sins – Sensitivity to sin – Contrition grows (close with Act of Contrition)

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Daily Examination of Conscience

  • Scripture helps

– The Ten Commandments (Ex 20:1-17) – Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) – Works of mercy (Matthew 25:31-46) – Teaching on Body of Christ & love (1 Cor 12-13) – Conduct of Christians (Rom 12-15; Eph 4-6) – Fruits of flesh and Spirit (Galatians 5)

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The Works of Mercy

  • We are called to serve others
  • Not optional – an outpouring of our faith in

and love for Christ

– “[F]aith apart from works is dead” – James 2:26

  • We will be judged on the basis of our mercy

and love

  • Preferential love for the poor

– Justice demands our energy, time, and wealth

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The Works of Mercy

  • Corporal works of mercy

– Giving alms – Feeding the hungry – Visiting the sick & imprisoned – Sheltering the homeless – Clothing the naked – Burying the dead

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The Works of Mercy

  • Spiritual works of mercy

– Teaching/advising in love – Admonishing the sinner – Consoling those who mourn – Comforting the afflicted – Forgiving wrongdoing – Bearing wrongs patiently

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The Works of Mercy

  • The witness of love in action

– Powerful message of the Gospel to the unbeliever

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Social Teaching of the Church

  • Teaching of the Church derives from Jesus’

teaching on the love of neighbor

– In fact, love of God and neighbor are inseparable

  • - see 1 John 4:20-21

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Social Teaching of the Church

Dignity of the Human Person

  • Made in God’s image and likeness
  • Basic dignity that’s sacred and inviolable
  • Our differences knit us together by mutual

need

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Social Teaching of the Church

The Common Good: Authority and Obligations

  • Those social conditions that are necessary for

human persons, both individually and in communities, to fulfill the end for which they are created.

– Peace and safety – Respect for persons – Social well-being and development of the group

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Social Teaching of the Church

The Common Good: Authority & Obligations (c.)

  • Civil government is to protect and promote the

common good

– Advancement of persons is the goal

  • Material and spiritual

– Persons must be valued over things – Natural law adherence required

  • Otherwise not binding in

conscience

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Social Teaching of the Church

The Common Good: Authority & Obligations (c.)

  • Citizens’ obligations

– Family – Work – Church – Public life of the community

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Social Teaching of the Church

Solidarity

  • The social expression of friendship and charity
  • Seeks the good of the whole human family
  • Expressed in proper distribution of goods and

just wages

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Social Teaching of the Church

Solidarity (cont.)

  • Inclusiveness

– Lifting up of the oppressed and freeing the enslaved – Fair treatment and love of stranger and foreigner – Care of widow and orphan – Justice to the wage-earner

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Social Teaching of the Church

Subsidiarity

  • Regulates relationships between various

structures within the social order

  • Right of a community to exist and function

without interference in its internal affairs from more powerful social institutions

– Especially applies to the family

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Social Teaching of the Church

Fair Distribution of Goods and Private Property

  • Goods of creation are given to entire human race
  • Must respect the right of private property
  • Honor promises and contracts
  • Animals are to be used properly

– No needless suffering or death

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Social Teaching of the Church

Care for the Poor

  • Access to basic necessities (justice not charity)

– Food – Shelter – Clothing

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