Monday, 3 November 2014
Our Age Needs Wisdom!
The whole Church is obliged to deep reflection and commitment, so that the new culture now emerging may be evangelized in depth, true values acknowledged, the rights of men and women defended, and justice promoted in the very structures of society. In this way the "new humanism" will not distract people from their relationship with God, but will lead them to it more fully.
Science and it's technical applications offer new and immense possibilities in the construction of such humanism. Still, as a consequence of political choices that decide the direction of research and it's applications, science is often against its original purpose, which is the advancement of the human person.
It becomes necessary, therefore, on the part of all, to recover an awareness of the primacy of moral values, which are the values of the human person as such. The great task that has to be faced today for the renewal of society is that of recapturing the ultimate meaning of life and it's fundamental values. Only an awareness of the primacy of these values enables man to use immense possibilities given him by science in such a way as to bring about the true advancement of the human person in his or her who,e truth, in his or her freedom and dignity. Science is called to ally itself with wisdom.
The following words of the Second Vatican Council can therefore be applied to the problems of the family: "Our era needs such wisdom moe than bygone ages if the discoveries made by man are to be further humanized. For the future of the world stands in peril unless wiser people are forthcoming."
The education of the moral conscience, which makes every human being capable of judging and of discerning the proper way to achieve self-realization according to his or her original truth, thus becomes a pressing requirement that cannot be renounced.
Modern culture must be led to a profoundly restored covenant with Divine Wisdom through the creating action of God. And it is only in faithfulness to this covenant that the families of today will be in a position to influence positively the building of a more just and fraternal world.
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