Charity is not a virtue next to the other but the other chairs. The responsibility of the task to unify the law, the acts and moral attitudes.
E 'was Jesus Himself established this by answering the question raised by the doctor of law first and greatest commandment.
He solves by giving priority to the commandment of love of God inseparably joined to love of neighbor (cf. Mt 22:34-40, Mk 12:28-34).
Now "on these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets" (Matt. 22:40); "there is no other commandment greater than these" (Mark 12:31).
This teaching of Jesus is, in the apostolic writings, the basis of constant unification in the love of all morality.
Come abbiamo notato, la trattazione avviene quasi esclusivamente sull'amore del prossimo, ma questo non separato dall'amore di Dio.
Il primato dell'amore del prossimo è semplicemente il primato della carità. Paolo infatti afferma: «Non abbiate alcun debito con nessuno, se non quello di un amore vicendevole; perché chi ama il suo simile ha adempiuto la legge. Infatti il precetto: "Non commettere adulterio, non uccidere, non rubare, non desiderare" e qualsiasi altro comandamento, si riassume in queste parole: "Amerai il prossimo tuo come te stesso". L'amore non fa alcun male al prossimo: pieno compimento della legge è l'amore» (Rm 13,8‑10).
La carità, inoltre, è a fondamento della moral freedom of the Christian: "You, brothers, you were called to freedom. As long as this freedom does not become an excuse for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "love your neighbor as yourself" (Galatians 5:13-14).
"In Christ Jesus, in fact, had said shortly before the apostle, has ... faith working in love "(Gal 5:6).
Human freedom is not new to the old man's free will, but freedom in love.
In Colossians 3:12 ff Paul concludes the list of virtues that Christians should practice as their new man, called for an "above all charity, which is the bond of perfection" (Col 3:14)
Charity is the eminent virtues "like the mantle covers all the others and keeps them together " [1] .
Love "bears all, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (1 Cor 13:7): "It is indeed a factor that multiplies all» [2] .
understand, then, the concentration in the love of the whole moral life: "Everything you do be done in love" (1 Cor 16:21); "behave in accord with love" (Romans 14:15); "walk in love" (Eph 5.2); simply, "Make love" (1 Cor 14:1).
It is "the best way of all" (1 Cor 12:31) and without it you have nothing, no help at all, it was not anything (1 Cor 13:1-3). In John
charity becomes a commandment, which "unites in itself a religious bond God, the Christ, the neighbor, the golden ring of love" [3] : "This is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another "(1 Jn 3:23; cf. 3.11, 4.21, 5.1, 2 Jn 6). Similarly
in Peter, "Above all of you kept a great love" (1 Peter 4:8).
Judas confirms the Conservatoire in the love of God .. for eternal life "(Jude 21).
The charity does this first unification of the whole law and the moral virtues from the object and purpose of its own intentions and that moves the will of the agent.
This object and end is God, the supreme good willed by man, which arouses the greatest kindness love. It moves as a unit and overall human freedom, so that any property that is the subject of kindness and because its expression and reflection.
This implies an objective determination of all the good and moral people of all moral action, and implementation, respectively, as an expression of charity.
Everything good is in the light of charity: that actually acted and performed.
God is, by virtue of baptism, communion in the Christian Trinity.
In other words, Christian freedom is fully absorbed and polarized by the love of God It is, uniquely and uniformly expressed the desire to act in love as communion with God
If man matches his freedom and this is formed by the love of God, then the charity informs and moves all the freedom of man.
In this way all the moral behavior of Christians express the love and there can be good and moral attitude, as the Apostle says in 1 Cor 13.1-3, without charity. Let's take a
as close as we have stated.
Before I speak in categorical gestures, the freedom to express all basically voltage, voltage realizing the person as such.
is the voltage to the implementation and fulfillment of self in relation to the ultimate end and supreme good.
This is the fundamental or ontological freedom, the act by which a global is fully realized and that is determined, then, individual acts or partial categorical [4] .
[1] Fitzmeyer JA, Letter to the Colossians, Great commentary on the Bible, op. cit., p. 1270. "Is it possible that Paul here appeals to the Sermon on the Mount:" Be perfect as your Father is perfect which is in heaven "(Mt 5:48), where the great universal love of God is the supreme model for man" (ibid.).
[2] VANNI U., who is also a hymn to love a path (l Cor 13), must love God and your neighbor, op. cit., p. 192.
[3] C. Spicq, Charité et liberté, op. cit., p. 43.
[4] Cf K. Rahner, The commandment of love among the other commandments, in Essays on spirituality, Rome 1965, p. 390.
0 comments:
Post a Comment