CL - LESSON 2

Memory of _ of love and service inspires us today as we continue to struggle in staying to our commitment of making His love present in the world.

True love entails _

Decision driven by commitment, patient and merciful

Stays in good and bad times

(Compatible) - To suffer with

Are u willing to suffer with someone until death do you part?

Croation Tradition - Priest says

Croation Tradition: To love, carry with you, not to throw away but to treasure

Herzegovina - Greatest Love

Herzegovina - Treasure of the house

Restored his threefold denial of Jesus

To love Jesus is to love _

Enables and sustains our love for others

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a _ (1 John 4:20)

For whoever does not love _ whom he has seen cannot love _ who he has not seen (1 John 4:20)

God is _, and whoever remains in _remains in God and God in him

We love because _

1st Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI

Deus Caritas Est

DCE: God’s love as made flesh in Jesus

God’s Love made flesh: Jesus’ _ is inseparable from His passion and death

Latin, to make flesh

God’s Love made flesh: Two forms of love

God’s Love made flesh: Being God’s beloved, _ complete trust and love of God the Father flowed through his _ on the _

God’s Love made flesh: Not result of ethical choice/lofty idea

God’s Love made flesh: Encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and decisive decision

A _ community is a community centered on love

Christ-Centered Community: manifested in the loving relationship within the community

Christ-Centered Community: Core of Christian Faith

Christ-Centered Community: If you see _, you see the _ - St. Augustine

Christ-Centered Community: God’s love in the world.

`Christ-Centered Community: No one ought to go without _ of life

Christ-Centered Community: Integral part of what it means to be a Church

Christ-Centered Community: Responsibility of indiv Christians and of the whole Christian community

There is an unbreakable bond between love of and love of

Unbreakable Bond: God’s way of loving becomes the measure of _

Unbreakable Bond: _ opens our eyes to the many diff ways that God loves us

_ and _ go hand in hand to respond to the call of love

Call of Love: Warns against acts that make a show out of almsgiving to excuse one from their duty to build a just society toward eradicating poverty and oppression to preserve status in society

Call of love: Both aim and intrinsic criterion of all politics and is the origin and goal, which by its very nature has to do with ethics

Aim is to help purify reason and to contribute, here and now, to the acknowledgement and attainment of what is just

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not take upon herself political battle to bring about the most just society possible

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not replace state

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not remain on sidelines in fight for justice

Catholic Social Doctrine: Alive with the love enkindled by Christ

Catholic Social Doctrine: Offers more than material help

Catholic Social Doctrine: Seeks to give refreshment to the troubled spirit through love

Will always prove necessary even in most just society

Whoever wants to eliminate _ is preparing to eliminate _ as such.

There will always be a situation of material need where help in the form of _ of neighbor is indispensable.

• Simple response to immediate needs & specific situations

• Not used as tool to advance a particular ideology that does not consider the common good

  • Not bargaining chip that is given as a reward to those who will return from their evil ways

Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, Attending to neighbors in need

Transparent, no hidden agenda

Freely given, non-imposing

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of _ and when it is better to say nothing and to let _ alone speak.

He knows that God is _ and that God’s presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.