Chap., §
1 Bles | and, in a special way, in man, created in the image and
2 Bles | 1:26). Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes
3 Int, 1 | father of lies" (Jn 8:44), man is constantly tempted to
4 Int, 1 | God for a lie" ( 1:25). Man's capacity to know the truth
5 Int, 1 | can totally take away from man the light of God the Creator.
6 Int, 1 | is eloquently proved by man's tireless search for knowledge
7 Int, 2 | decisive answer to every one of man's questions, his religious
8 Int, 2 | is shed on the mystery of man. For Adam, the first man,
9 Int, 2 | man. For Adam, the first man, was a figure of the future
10 Int, 2 | was a figure of the future man, namely, of Christ the Lord.
11 Int, 2 | Adam, who fully discloses man to himself and unfolds his
12 1, 6 | Jesus with the rich young man, related in the nineteenth
13 1, 6 | as yourself.' The young man said to him, 'I have kept
14 1, 7 | to him...". In the young man, whom Matthew's Gospel does
15 1, 7 | approaches Christ the Redeemer of man and questions him about
16 1, 7 | morality. For the young man, the question is not so
17 1, 7 | is the origin and goal of man's life. Precisely in this
18 1, 8 | question which the rich young man puts to Jesus of Nazareth
19 1, 8 | question for the life of every man, for it is about the moral
20 1, 8 | eternal life. The young man senses that there is a connection
21 1, 8 | Christ sheds light on man's condition and his integral
22 1, 8 | vocation. Consequently, "the man who wishes to understand
23 1, 8 | asked by the rich young man in the Gospel and, even
24 1, 8 | teacher, answers the young man by taking him, as it were,
25 1, 9 | Jesus wishes the young man to have a clear idea of
26 1, 9 | Jesus shows that the young man's question is really a religious
27 1, 9 | at the same time obliges man has its source in God, and
28 1, 9 | 37). He is the source of man's happiness. Jesus brings
29 1, 10 | Teacher's words, believes that man, made in the image of the
30 1, 10 | disclosed to me. Know then, O man, your greatness, and be
31 1, 10 | and be vigilant".17 ~What man is and what he must do becomes
32 1, 10 | good"; the One who despite man's sin remains the "model"
33 1, 10 | faithful to his love for man, gives him his Law (cf.
34 1, 10 | 21) in order to restore man's original and peaceful
35 1, 10 | taken by God out of love for man. It is a response of love,
36 1, 11 | one whom the rich young man addresses with the words "
37 1, 11 | Lk 18:18). What the young man now perhaps only dimly perceives
38 1, 12 | question: he did so by creating man and ordering him with wisdom
39 1, 12 | this light and this law to man at creation".19 He also
40 1, 12 | Jesus tells the young man: "If you wish to enter into
41 1, 12 | God's commandments show man the path of life and they
42 1, 12 | of Jesus, the new Moses, man is once again given the
43 1, 12 | speaking to the rich young man: "Every one who has left
44 1, 13 | not enough for the young man, who continues by asking
45 1, 13 | After directing the young man's gaze towards God, Jesus
46 1, 13 | wishes to draw the young man's attention to the "centrality"
47 1, 13 | Lord your God" mean for man. Nevertheless we cannot
48 1, 13 | Lord recalls to the young man. They are some of the commandments
49 1, 13 | same time, they teach us man's true humanity. They shed
50 1, 13 | Jesus reminds the young man are meant to safeguard the
51 1, 14 | the one asked by the young man. Jesus refers him to the
52 1, 16 | does not satisfy the young man, who asks Jesus a further
53 1, 16 | childhood, the rich young man knows that he is still far
54 1, 16 | Conscious of the young man's yearning for something
55 1, 16 | given by Jesus to the young man's question: "What good must
56 1, 16 | very "good" which opens man up to eternal life, and
57 1, 17 | know how clearly the young man in the Gospel understood
58 1, 17 | is certain that the young man's commitment to respect
59 1, 17 | conversation with the young man helps us to grasp the conditions
60 1, 17 | for the moral growth of man, who has been called to
61 1, 17 | to perfection: the young man, having observed all the
62 1, 17 | points out to the young man that the commandments are
63 1, 17 | other hand, for the young man to give up all he possesses
64 1, 17 | Law has nothing to do with man's "liberation" from precepts.
65 1, 18 | invitation to the rich young man stand at the service of
66 1, 19 | conversation with the young man: "Come, follow me" (Mt 19:
67 1, 20 | 1): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay
68 1, 20 | no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
69 1, 20 | As he calls the young man to follow him along the
70 1, 20 | wishes to follow him: "If any man would come after me, let
71 1, 21 | imitation, since it touches man at the very depths of his
72 1, 22 | conversation with the rich young man is very poignant: "When
73 1, 22 | poignant: "When the young man heard this, he went away
74 1, 22 | 19:22). Not only the rich man but the disciples themselves
75 1, 22 | for mankind, a plan which man after sin has no longer
76 1, 22 | If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not
77 1, 22 | possibility opened up to man by God's grace. "He said
78 1, 22 | Christ is not possible for man by his own strength alone.
79 1, 23 | which, by enabling sinful man to take stock of his own
80 1, 23 | what they demand is beyond man's abilities. They are possible
81 1, 24 | possibility opened up to man exclusively by grace, by
82 1, 25 | conversation with the rich young man continues, in a sense, in
83 1, 25 | person of the Son of God made man, must be faithfully kept
84 1, 27 | teaching, in order to help man in his journey towards truth
85 2, 28 | Jesus and the rich young man has enabled us to bring
86 2, 28 | are: the subordination of man and his activity to God,
87 2, 28 | discipleship, which opens up before man the perspective of perfect
88 2, 28 | Jesus to the rich young man. Indeed, Sacred Scripture
89 2, 28 | is shed on the mystery of man".44 ~
90 2, 29 | who, by giving himself to man in Christ, offers him the
91 2, 30 | the human heart. What is man? What is the meaning and
92 2, 30 | the role of conscience in man's moral development? how
93 2, 30 | question which the young man in the Gospel put to Jesus: "
94 2, 31 | diverge from the truth about man as a creature and the image
95 2, 34 | is only in freedom that man can turn to what is good".56
96 2, 34 | manifestation of the divine image in man. For God willed to leave
97 2, 34 | For God willed to leave man "in the power of his own
98 2, 35 | The Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'You may eat freely
99 2, 35 | evil does not belong to man, but to God alone. The man
100 2, 35 | man, but to God alone. The man is certainly free, inasmuch
101 2, 35 | perfectly what is good for man, and by virtue of his very
102 2, 35 | love proposes this good to man in the commandments. ~God'
103 2, 36 | expression of a law which man in an autonomous manner
104 2, 36 | and total mandate given to man by God. These trends of
105 2, 36 | as its author, and that man, by the use of reason, participates
106 2 | God left man in the power of his own
107 2, 38 | of the divine image" in man: "God willed to leave man
108 2, 38 | man: "God willed to leave man in the power of his own
109 2, 38 | God's dominion to which man has been called: they indicate
110 2, 38 | called: they indicate that man's dominion extends in a
111 2, 38 | in a certain sense over man himself. This has been a
112 2, 38 | and responsible task for man, one which involves his
113 2, 38 | autonomy is due to every man, as well as to the human
114 2, 38 | utilized and ordered by man".66 ~
115 2, 39 | world, however, but also man himself has been entrusted
116 2, 39 | responsibility. God left man "in the power of his own
117 2, 39 | himself. Indeed, just as man in exercising his dominion
118 2, 39 | performing morally good acts, man strengthens, develops and
119 2, 39 | dependent on God and that man can use them without reference
120 2, 39 | Creator".67 With regard to man himself, such a concept
121 2, 40 | rightful autonomy"70 of man, the personal subject of
122 2, 40 | this light and this law to man at creation".71 The rightful
123 2, 40 | practical reason means that man possesses in himself his
124 2, 40 | teaching on the truth about man.73 It would be the death
125 2, 41 | 41. Man's genuine moral autonomy
126 2, 41 | gave this command to the man..." (Gen 2:16). Human freedom
127 2, 41 | intersect, in the sense of man's free obedience to God
128 2, 41 | gratuitous benevolence towards man. Hence obedience to God
129 2, 41 | absolute, extraneous to man and intolerant of his freedom.
130 2, 41 | were to mean a denial of man's self-determination or
131 2, 41 | participated theonomy, since man's free obedience to God'
132 2, 41 | providence. By forbidding man to "eat of the tree of the
133 2, 41 | God makes it clear that man does not originally possess
134 2 | Blessed is the man who takes delight in the
135 2, 42 | Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom is not negated
136 2, 42 | Human dignity requires man to act through conscious
137 2, 42 | merely external pressure. Man achieves such dignity when
138 2, 42 | One who "alone is good", man must freely do good and
139 2, 42 | reason, the reflection in man of the splendour of God'
140 2, 43 | community. God has enabled man to share in this divine
141 2, 43 | this divine law, and hence man is able under the gentle
142 2, 43 | 11). But God provides for man differently from the way
143 2, 43 | not persons. He cares for man not "from without", through
144 2, 43 | consequently able to show man the right direction to take
145 2, 43 | In this way God calls man to participate in his own
146 2, 43 | human persons — through man himself, through man's reasonable
147 2, 43 | through man himself, through man's reasonable and responsible
148 2, 44 | heart of each and every man, since it is none other
149 2, 44 | clearly, could not exist in man if, as his own supreme legislator,
150 2, 44 | Ruler of the universe".83 ~Man is able to recognize good
151 2, 44 | into life. "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel
152 2, 45 | which is always meant for man. The different ways in which
153 2, 45 | plan poses no threat to man's genuine freedom; on the
154 2, 46 | that "nature" subjected man totally to its own dynamics
155 2, 46 | untrammelled advancement of man's power, or of his freedom,
156 2, 46 | mean everything found in man and the world apart from
157 2, 46 | when all is said and done man would not even have a nature;
158 2, 46 | own personal life-project. Man would be nothing more than
159 2, 47 | adequate consideration both man's character as a rational
160 2, 47 | moral norms. In their view, man, as a rational being, not
161 2, 47 | they continue, God made man as a rationally free being;
162 2, 48 | resolved by a division within man himself. ~This moral theory
163 2, 48 | correspond to the truth about man and his freedom. It contradicts
164 2, 50 | understood: it refers to man's proper and primordial
165 2, 50 | the rational order whereby man is called by the Creator
166 2, 50 | is a fundamental good of man, thus acquires a moral significance
167 2, 50 | meaning, the Church serves man and shows him the path of
168 2, 51 | transferred to the heart of the man who works justice, not by
169 2, 52 | is always possible that man, as the result of coercion
170 2, 53 | certainly be admitted that man always exists in a particular
171 2, 53 | must also be admitted that man is not exhaustively defined
172 2, 53 | that there is something in man which transcends those cultures.
173 2, 53 | condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner
174 2, 53 | permanent structural elements of man which are connected with
175 2 | Man's sanctuary ~
176 2, 54 | The relationship between man's freedom and God's law
177 2, 54 | depths of his conscience man detects a law which he does
178 2, 54 | do this, shun that'. For man has in his heart a law written
179 2, 54 | it is the very dignity of man; according to it he will
180 2, 55 | perspective which helps man tentatively to put order
181 2, 55 | defined as "the sanctuary of man, where he is alone with
182 2, 55 | voice, it is said, leads man not so much to a meticulous
183 2, 55 | decisions "autonomously" would man be able to attain moral
184 2, 57 | certain sense confronts man with the law, and thus becomes
185 2, 57 | becomes a "witness" for man: a witness of his own faithfulness
186 2, 58 | this interior dialogue of man with himself can never be
187 2, 58 | it is also a dialogue of man with God, the author of
188 2, 58 | primordial image and final end of man. Saint Bonaventure teaches
189 2, 58 | conscience bears witness to man's own rectitude or iniquity
190 2, 58 | rectitude or iniquity to man himself but, together with
191 2, 58 | penetrate the depths of man's soul, calling him fortiter
192 2, 58 | conscience does not close man within an insurmountable
193 2, 58 | place where God speaks to man".104 ~
194 2, 59 | is a moral judgment about man and his actions, a judgment
195 2, 59 | judgment which makes known what man must do or not do, or which
196 2, 59 | shines in the heart of every man. But whereas the natural
197 2, 60 | an imperative character: man must act in accordance with
198 2, 60 | in accordance with it. If man acts against this judgment
199 2, 61 | the evil one has done. If man does evil, the just judgment
200 2, 62 | this cannot be said when a man shows little concern for
201 2, 62 | good conscience" (Tim 1:5), man must seek the truth and
202 2, 63 | objective truth received by man; in the case of the erroneous
203 2, 63 | it is a question of what man, mistakenly, subjectively
204 2, 63 | truth rationally proposed to man in virtue of his end, or
205 2, 63 | erroneous, that is to say, "when man shows little concern for
206 2, 64 | connaturality" between man and the true good.110 Such
207 2, 64 | truth about the good of man, but rather, especially
208 2, 65 | determine the freedom of man as a person in his totality,
209 2, 65 | or refusing to do so that man is able to express his own
210 2, 65 | other words, concerning man's relationship with himself,
211 2, 66 | cf Rom 16:26) "by which man makes a total and free self-commitment
212 2, 66 | comes from the core of man, from his "heart" (cf Rom
213 2, 66 | he also says to the young man: "If you wish to be perfect...
214 2, 67 | his fundamental choice, man is capable of giving his
215 2, 67 | specific actions, through which man deliberately conforms himself
216 2, 67 | reason, it is revoked when man engages his freedom in conscious
217 2, 67 | rational finality immanent in man's acting and in each of
218 2, 68 | Church. ~In point of fact, man does not suffer perdition
219 2, 69 | mortal sin, which separates man from God, only exists in
220 2, 69 | would be hard to accept that man is able, in a brief lapse
221 2, 70 | mortal sin the act by which man freely and consciously rejects
222 2, 71 | The relationship between man's freedom and God's law,
223 2, 71 | precisely through his acts that man attains perfection as man,
224 2, 71 | man attains perfection as man, as one who is called to
225 2, 71 | state of affairs outside of man but, to the extent that
226 2, 72 | defined by the relationship of man's freedom with the authentic
227 2, 72 | eternal law is known both by man's natural reason (hence
228 2, 72 | freedom are in conformity with man's true good and thus express
229 2, 72 | the supreme good in whom man finds his full and perfect
230 2, 72 | first question in the young man's conversation with Jesus: "
231 2, 72 | moral value of an act and man's final end. Jesus, in his
232 2, 72 | reply, confirms the young man's conviction: the performance
233 2, 73(123)| Christ died for all and since man's ultimate calling comes
234 2, 73 | ultimate end (telos) of man. This is attested to once
235 2, 73 | question posed by the young man to Jesus: "What good must
236 2, 73 | authentic moral good of man, safeguarded by the commandments.
237 2, 73 | in his reply to the young man: "If you wish to enter into
238 2, 73 | deliberate, by virtue of which man is "responsible" for his
239 2, 74 | the moral assessment of man's free acts depend? What
240 2, 74 | without any reference to the man's true ultimate end. They
241 2, 78 | that "it often happens that man acts with a good intention,
242 2, 79 | reason in the very being of man, considered in his integral
243 2, 80 | therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention
244 2, 83 | faced with the question of man himself, of his truth and
245 2, 83 | the integral truth about man; she thus respects and promotes
246 2, 83 | thus respects and promotes man in his dignity and vocation.
247 2, 83 | the Truth (cf Jn 14:6), man can understand fully and
248 3, 84 | that of the relationship of man's freedom to God's law;
249 3, 84 | culture. As a result, helping man to rediscover it represents
250 3, 84 | distressing perplexity of a man who often no longer knows
251 3, 84 | more serious has happened: man is no longer convinced that
252 3, 84 | wisdom of God, who guides man with the moral law. Concrete
253 3, 84 | always the one true good of man".137 ~
254 3, 86 | the weakness which marks man's freedom. That freedom
255 3, 86 | whereby the Creator calls man to the true Good, and even
256 3, 86 | rooted in the truth about man, and it is ultimately directed
257 3, 86 | confirm its tragic aspects. Man comes to realize that his
258 3, 86 | and negative decisions, man glimpses the source of a
259 3, 87 | says: "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay
260 3, 87 | no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
261 3, 87 | responsibility of the Son of man who came "not to be served
262 3, 89 | on the same road: "If any man would come after me, let
263 3, 90 | personal dignity of every man, demands protected by those
264 3, 90 | dignity and inviolability of man, on whose face is reflected
265 3, 92 | the personal dignity of man, created in God's image
266 3, 92 | What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world
267 3, 92 | act: it is a violation of man's "humanity", in the one
268 3, 92 | there I will be truly a man. Let me imitate the passion
269 3, 93 | crisis which can afflict man: the confusion between good
270 3, 95 | Christ, and as a service to man, to the growth of his freedom
271 3, 95 | and trusting love which man always needs along his moral
272 3, 96 | only purpose is to serve man's true freedom. Because
273 3, 96 | absolutely essential demands of man's personal dignity must
274 3, 96 | service is directed to every man, considered in the uniqueness
275 3, 96 | universal moral norms does man find full confirmation of
276 3, 97 | Jesus quoted to the young man of the Gospel (cf Mt 19:
277 3, 98 | particular ways of looking at man, society and the world.
278 3, 99 | personal dignity of every man. The Supreme Good and the
279 3, 99 | Redeemer, and the truth of man, created and redeemed by
280 3, 99 | truth, in obedience to which man achieves his full identity,
281 3, 102 | most difficult situations man must respect the norm of
282 3, 102 | experience demonstrates, man is tempted to break that
283 3, 102 | of this inner division of man? His history of sin begins
284 3, 102 | other temptations to which man is more easily inclined
285 3, 102 | and he knows every deed of man. He has not commanded any
286 3, 103 | 103. Man always has before him the
287 3, 103 | concrete" possibilities of man. "It would be a very serious
288 3, 103 | concrete possibilities of man, according to a "balancing
289 3, 103 | concrete possibilities of man" ? And of which man are
290 3, 103 | possibilities of man" ? And of which man are we speaking? Of man
291 3, 103 | man are we speaking? Of man dominated by lust or of
292 3, 103 | dominated by lust or of man redeemed by Christ? This
293 3, 103 | concupiscence. And if redeemed man still sins, this is not
294 3, 103 | s redemptive act, but to man's will not to avail himself
295 3, 103 | of course proportioned to man's capabilities; but to the
296 3, 103 | the capabilities of the man to whom the Holy Spirit
297 3, 103 | Spirit has been given; of the man who, though he has fallen
298 3, 104 | the moral conscience of man in every age. The tax collector
299 3, 105 | capacity of the moral forces of man left to himself) kindles
300 3, 105 | of Milan: "What then is man, if you do not visit him?
301 3, 109 | reason because it reveals to man the truth of his destiny
302 3, 110 | and their relation with man's ultimate end.174 Moral
303 3, 110 | doctrine and the vision of man set forth by the Church. ~
304 3, 111 | elicit the response that man must give to the divine
305 3, 111 | the imago Dei present in man, and in response to the
306 3, 112 | the traces of a fall from man's original situation — in
307 3, 112 | Christian faith points out to man the way to return to "the
308 3, 112 | reveals the full truth about man and his moral journey, and
309 3, 114 | Jesus did with the young man in the Gospel. Replying
310 3, 114 | Jesus referred the young man to God, the Lord of creation
311 3, 114 | meaning by inviting the young man to follow him in poverty,
312 3, 117 | question which the young man in the Gospel once asked
313 3, 117 | The Church's answer to man's question contains the
314 3, 117 | becomes light and life for man. Again the Apostle Paul
315 Conc, 120 | the Son of God who became man; she raised him and enabled
316 Conc, 120 | She understands sinful man and loves him with a Mother'
317 Conc, 120 | Nor does she permit sinful man to be deceived by those
318 Conc, 120 | philosophy and theology, can make man truly happy: only the Cross
319 Conc, 120 | emptied of its power, ~that man may not stray ~from the
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