Reflecting with Pope Benedict. Father, your truth is made known in your Word. Guide us to seek the truth of the human person. Teach us the way to love.

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Reflecting with Pope Benedict

Father, your truth is made known in your Word. Guide us to seek the truth of the human person. Teach us the way to love because you are Love. Jesus, you embody God’s Love and Truth. Help us to recognise your face in the poor. Enable us to live out our vocation To bring love and justice to all people. Holy Spirit, you inspire us to transform our world. Empower us to seek the common good for all people. Give us a spirit of solidarity and make us one human family

One of the scribes asked Jesus ‘Which commandment is first of all?’ Jesus replied: ‘Number One is ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord’ and ‘You shall love the Lord your God out of your whole heart and your whole soul and your whole understanding and your whole strength.’ This is the second ‘You will love your neighbour as yourself’ Greater than these there is no other commandment.’ Mark 12: 28-31

Reflecting with Pope Benedict To love someone is to desire that person’s good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the good of the individual, there is the good that is linked to living in society: the common good

All of us It is the good of ‘all of us’, made up of individuals, families, and intermediate groups who together constitute society It is the good that is sought not for its own sake, but for the people who belong to the social community and who can only really and effectively pursue their good within it. To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity CIV 7

Economic activity Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which the political community in particular must take responsibility

Imbalance Therefore, it must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution CIV 36

Finely attuned Development is impossible without upright men and women financiers and politicians whose consciences are finely attuned to the requirements of the common good CIV 71

Reflecting together: What words from Pope Benedict stay with you? What is the “common good”? Why is it a requirement of justice and charity? In what way/s is your conscience attuned to the requirements of the common good? How can you better inform your conscience so as to be sensitive to the good of all? What do you think your role is as a Catholic and a person concerned about the well- being of others, in working for the common good?