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1 2 | character of each individual's earthly life. After all,
2 2 | marvellously fulfils all the heart's expectations while infinitely
3 2 | history. The Gospel of God's love for man, the Gospel
4 3 | necessarily be felt in the Church's very heart; it cannot but
5 4 | weigh upon many of the world's peoples and which require
6 5 | Novarum, I drew everyone's attention to this striking
7 5 | in defence of the world's poor, those who are threatened
8 6 | in accordance with God's plan, the "sanctuary of
9 | THE VOICE OF YOUR BROTHER'S BLOOD CRIES TO ME FROM THE
10 7 | eternity, but through the devil's envy death entered the world,
11 7 | meaninglessness over man's entire existence. Death
12 7 | as a result of the devil's envy (cf. Gen 3:1,4-5) and
13 7 | not know; am I my brother's keeper?' And the Lord said, ?
14 7 | The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from
15 7 | to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When
16 8 | reason why God prefers Abel's sacrifice to Cain's. It
17 8 | Abel's sacrifice to Cain's. It clearly shows however
18 8 | although preferring Abel's gift, does not interrupt
19 8 | upper hand over the Lord's warning, and so Cain attacks
20 8 | In the account of Abel's murder by his brother Cain,
21 8 | of violence against one's neighbour there is a concession
22 8 | brother" (1 Jn 3:11-12). Cain's killing of his brother at
23 8 | with amazing speed: man's revolt against God in the
24 8 | not know; am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4:9). "I do
25 8 | beings. "Am I my brother's keeper?": Cain does not
26 8 | cannot but think of today's tendency for people to refuse
27 8 | solidarity towards society's weakest members-such as
28 8 | relations between the world's peoples even when basic
29 9 | violence profoundly changes man's environment. From being
30 9 | a desire to avenge Abel's death. Not even a murderer
31 9 | then the divine law of God's mercy should be immediately
32 10 | The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from
33 10 | different ways.~The Lord's question: "What have you
34 10 | tampering with the world's ecological balance, by the
35 12 | multiplicity and gravity of today's social problems, and these
36 13 | the fetus in the mother's womb without recourse to
37 13 | precisely where the Church's teaching on contraception
38 13 | striving to observe God's law fully. Still, in very
39 14 | implantation in the woman's womb, and these so-called "
40 15 | equilibrium of an individual's personal and family life,
41 15 | the sight of the patient's suffering, euthanasia is
42 16 | families and for every person's inviolable right to life,
43 | Am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4:9): a perverse
44 18 | which determine it. The Lord's question: "What have you
45 19 | in this sense that Cain's answer to the Lord's question: "
46 19 | Cain's answer to the Lord's question: "Where is Abel
47 19 | not know; am I my brother's keeper?" (Gen 4:9). Yes,
48 19 | every man is his "brother's keeper", because God entrusts
49 20 | the face of other people's analogous interests, some
50 21 | capacity to discern God's living and saving presence.~
51 21 | insight from the story of Abel's murder by his brother. After
52 21 | presence of God and before God's just judgment. It is really
53 22 | misunderstanding of nature's dependence on the plan of
54 22 | loss of contact with God's wise design is the deepest
55 22 | deepest root of modern man's confusion, both when this
56 23 | counts is the pursuit of one's own material well-being.
57 23 | another, in all the other's richness as a person, it
58 25 | The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from
59 25 | the grandeur of the Father's love, shows how precious
60 25 | how precious man is in God's eyes and how priceless the
61 25 | Furthermore, Christ's blood reveals to man that
62 25 | absolute certitude that in God's plan life will be victorious. "
63 26 | signs at work in humanity's present situation.~Unfortunately
64 27 | societies, where people's expectations are no longer
65 30 | the "Word of life", God's eternal life is thus proclaimed
66 30 | value and meaning, for God's eternal life is in fact
67 31 | On the contrary, Israel's life is the object of God'
68 31 | life is the object of God's gentle and intense love.~
69 31 | has put eternity into man's mind" (Ec 3:11). This first
70 31 | brought to perfection, by God's free gift, through sharing
71 | life, Jesus brings life's meaning to fulfilment ~ ~
72 32 | good to which the Father's love gives meaning and value.~"
73 32 | him the "good news" of God's concern for them, and they
74 32 | taken place in the Church's mission from the beginning.
75 32 | meaning of every person's life in its moral and spiritual
76 33 | righteous, who echo Mary's immediate and joyful "yes" (
77 33 | hand and the power of God's gift on the other, there
78 33 | humanity (cf. Lk 2:11).~Life's contradictions and risks
79 | Son" (Rom 8:28-29): God's glory shines on the face
80 34 | man at the summit of God's creative activity, as its
81 34 | thing" (1:28); this is God's command to the man and the
82 34 | this image not only man's dominion over the world
83 35 | dissatisfaction which marks man's life in Eden as long as
84 35 | of man, he rested in man's mind and in his thought;
85 36 | 36. Unfortunately, God's marvellous plan was marred
86 36 | In the life of man, God's image shines forth anew
87 36 | had ruined and marred God's plan for human life and
88 36 | perfection in them. God's plan for human beings is
89 37 | the Holy Spirit into one's own life, which even now
90 38 | Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not
91 39 | 39. Man's life comes from God; it
92 39 | child quieted at its mother's breast; like a child that
93 40 | from the beginning in man's heart, in his conscience.
94 40 | is brought out in Israel's later legislation, it also
95 41 | command of love for one's neighbour, is reaffirmed
96 41 | caring for the life of one's brother (whether a blood
97 41 | the point of loving one's enemy.~A stranger is no
98 41 | love is to pray for one's enemy. By so doing we achieve
99 41 | the deepest element of God's commandment to protect human
100 | subdue it" (Gen 1:28): man's responsibility for life~ ~
101 43 | certain sharing by man in God's lordship is also evident
102 43 | from parents to child, God's own image and likeness is
103 43 | act of procreation, God's gift is accepted and a new
104 44 | is also based on Israel's awareness of being the people
105 44 | forming of life in the mother's womb, of giving birth and
106 44 | beginning, is part of God's plan. Job, from the depth
107 44 | formed his body in his mother's womb. Here he finds reason
108 44 | of awe and wonder at God's intervention in the life
109 44 | of a child in its mother's womb occur again and again
110 45 | the blessings of the Lord's presence are also speedily
111 45 | woman recognized the woman's arrival; the child, that
112 46 | to fade before a person's eyes-so as to make him cry
113 46 | unshakable faith in God's life-giving power. Illness
114 47 | he performed, shows God's great concern even for man'
115 47 | great concern even for man's bodily life. Jesus, as "
116 47 | for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mk 8:35).
117 47 | even at the risk of one's life (cf. Mk 6:17-29). Stephen,
118 47 | faithful witness to the Lord's Resurrection, follows in
119 47 | Resurrection, follows in the Master's footsteps and meets those
120 48 | its own. By accepting God's gift, man is obliged to
121 48 | life is revealed by God's commandment. The word of
122 48 | surprising, therefore, that God's Covenant with his people
123 48 | dimension. In that Covenant, God's commandment is offered as
124 49 | living which ignore God's plan, it is the Prophets
125 49 | life and violate people's rights: "They trample the
126 49 | gospel", the good news of God's lordship over the world,
127 49 | of self in love for one's brothers and sisters: "We
128 50 | whole land ... while the sun's light failed; and the curtain
129 51 | water flowing from Christ's side-is continually given
130 51 | continually given to God's children, making them the
131 | YOU SHALL NOT KILL ~ ~GOD'S HOLY LAW~ ~
132 52 | the observance of the Lord's commandments, including
133 52 | steal...' " (Mt 19:18).~God's commandment is never detached
134 52 | always a gift meant for man's growth and joy. As such,
135 52 | that from the beginning man's nature was marked by royalty...
136 52 | love and respect for God's plan. Man's lordship however
137 52 | respect for God's plan. Man's lordship however is not
138 52 | through obedience to God's holy Law: a free and joyful
139 52 | is the "minister of God's plan".40 ~Life is entrusted
140 53 | the central content of God's revelation on the sacredness
141 54 | commandment to love one's neighbour is like the commandment
142 54 | and by abortion cause God's creatures to perish; they
143 54 | time passed, the Church's Tradition has always consistently
144 55 | understanding of what God's commandment prohibits and
145 55 | which values proposed by God's Law seem to involve a genuine
146 55 | the right to protect one's own life and the duty not
147 55 | not to harm someone else's life are difficult to reconcile
148 55 | responsible for another's life, the common good of
149 56 | thus, in the end, with God's plan for man and society.
150 56 | order and ensuring people's safety, while at the same
151 57 | absolute binding force of God's commandment.~In effect,
152 57 | constantly upheld in the Church's Tradition and consistently
153 57 | and at its end, the Church's Magisterium has spoken out
154 58 | But today, in many people's consciences, the perception
155 58 | which tends to hide abortion's true nature and to attenuate
156 58 | power of a newborn baby's cries and tears. The unborn
157 59 | who ought to be society's promoters and defenders.
158 61 | human being in the mother's womb that they require as
159 61 | logical consequence that God's commandment "You shall not
160 61 | personal objects of God's loving and fatherly providence.~
161 61(60) | who took me from my mother's womb" (Ps 71:6; cf. Is 46:
162 61 | are still in their mother's womb, "are already under
163 61 | Throughout Christianity's two thousand year history,
164 62 | it directly involves God's creative activity".67 The
165 62 | unspeakable crimes".68~The Church's canonical discipline, from
166 62 | transmitted by the Church's Tradition and taught by
167 64 | At the other end of life's spectrum, men and women
168 64 | time, "gently" ending one's own life or the life of
169 65 | all suffering. "Euthanasia's terms of reference, therefore,
170 65 | for relieving the patient's pain when this involves
171 65 | consciously in the Lord's Passion, such "heroic" behaviour
172 65 | transmitted by the Church's Tradition and taught by
173 66 | objectionable as murder. The Church's tradition has always rejected
174 66 | and charity towards one's neighbour, towards the communities
175 66 | represents a rejection of God's absolute sovereignty over
176 66 | leads to sharing another's pain; it does not kill the
177 67 | we die, we are the Lord's" (Rom 14:7-8). Dying to
178 67 | Lord means experiencing one's death as the supreme act
179 67 | which can only mean when one's earthly pilgrimage is completed.
180 67 | through sharing, by God's gracious gift and one's
181 67 | s gracious gift and one's own personal and free choice,
182 67 | what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake
183 69 | respect for other people's freedom of choice requires
184 69 | law; in carrying out one's duties the only moral criterion
185 70 | of human beings? Everyone's conscience rightly rejects
186 70 | the times", as the Church's Magisterium has frequently
187 72 | once more from John XXIII's Encyclical: "Authority is
188 74 | legislation, are contrary to God's law. Indeed, from the moral
189 75 | 75. God's commandments teach us the
190 75 | fundamental decision to direct one's life to God. 99~In this
191 75 | one begins to lift up one's head towards freedom. But
192 76 | Creator has entrusted man's life to his responsible
193 77 | the requirements of God's bountiful love in Jesus
194 | You are God's own people, that you may
195 78 | day the echo of Saint Paul's words of warning: "Woe to
196 79 | awareness of being "God's own people, that we may
197 80 | life", that every person's earthly life acquires its
198 81 | condition of that person's life.~ ~
199 82 | life, we can feel that Paul's entreaty to Timothy is also
200 82 | investigated. 106 May Paul's exhortation strike a chord
201 82 | conform us to the world's way of thinking (cf. Rom
202 83 | suffering, outcast or at death's door. Instead, in all these
203 83 | mystery of every individual's call to share through Christ
204 84 | us together in our mother's womb, and saw and loved
205 84 | we see the image of God's glory. We celebrate this
206 86 | love, which is to give one's life for the person loved (
207 87 | of our sharing in Christ's royal mission, our support
208 88 | and all to bear each other's burdens (cf. Gal 6:2). It
209 89 | of human life. In today's cultural and social context,
210 89 | comply with the patient's request. Rather, it runs
211 90 | to the heights of Christ's charity; to renew every
212 90 | person; to search out people's needs and, when necessary,
213 90 | violates an innocent person's natural right to life is
214 91 | life. These are everyone's task and responsibility.
215 92 | Here it is a matter of God's own love, of which parents
216 92 | concerned about their children's faith and help them to fulfil
217 92(120)| tradition precisely as God's gift (cf. Ps 127:3) and
218 93 | worship is found in the family's actual daily life together,
219 93 | extreme poverty of the child's family. Through this type
220 94 | commandment to honour one's father and mother (cf. Ex
221 94 | conditions make the family's task of serving life more
222 95 | confront and solve today's unprecedented problems affecting
223 95 | also rooted in the Church's mission of evangelization.
224 95 | and at the level of people's everyday life.~ ~
225 97 | be obedient to the Lord's call and to act as faithful
226 98 | directives of the Church's Magisterium".132 A specific
227 98 | for instances of people's positive and sometimes heroic
228 99 | it develops in the woman's womb ... This unique contact
229 99 | profoundly marks the woman's personality".134 A mother
230 99 | eloquent defenders of everyone's right to life. Through your
231 101 | ognition of every person's dignity and without respect
232 102 | In the mystery of Christ's Birth the encounter of God
233 102 | the Gospel of life. Mary's consent at the Annunciation
234 102 | Church contemplates Mary's motherhood, she discovers
235 102 | the same time, the Church's experience of motherhood
236 102 | profound understanding of Mary's experience as the incomparable
237 103 | woman of glory in whom God's plan could be carried out
238 103 | women new birth into God's own life. But the Church
239 103 | cf. Gen 3:20).~The Church's spiritual motherhood is
240 103 | beginning of the Saviour's earthly life sum up and
241 104 | and opposing the Church's mission.~Here too Mary sheds
242 105 | 105. The angel's Annunciation to Mary is
243 105 | whole of the Virgin Mother's life is in fact pervaded
244 105 | the manifestation of God's love for his people (cf.
245 105 | combat strangely ended! Life's own Champion, slain, yet
246 106 | in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 25 March, the Solemnity