{"id":183037,"date":"2021-01-25T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/cultura-del-cuidado-y-promocion-de-la-paz\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:59:04","slug":"cultura-del-cuidado-y-promocion-de-la-paz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/en\/cultura-del-cuidado-y-promocion-de-la-paz\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of care and promotion of peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For, in fact, the homily at the beginning of the Petrine ministry revolved around the task of guardianship and service, seen in St. Joseph. We now find ourselves squarely at a point in that itinerary, after the programmatic exhortation Evangelii gaudium (2013) and the encyclicals Laudato si' (2015) and\u00a0Fratelli tutti (2020)<\/a>and, moreover, precisely in a Year of St. Joseph<\/a>to which we have been summoned with the letter Patris corde (December 8, 2020). The sociological context is marked by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Sailing towards peace<\/h2>\n

In fact, at the beginning of his pontificate, Francis presented St. Joseph as the one who took care of the salvific project centered on Christ. And he did so by means of his own discernment, based on the signs of the action of the Holy Spirit that are perceived when one looks at events with faith and realism.<\/p>\n

The image chosen by the Pope is the navigation towards peace, which is our port or our goal.<\/strong>. That is where we are sailing, \"we are all in the same boat\", as he points out in Fratelli tutti. Months earlier, on March 27, he had said that the pandemic has made us aware of being in a fragile and disoriented boat. Now we can clearly see that the boat is or should be fraternity, the path is justice and the course is peace.<\/strong> The Pope wishes that humanity \"may progress in this year on the path of fraternity, justice and peace\".<\/p>\n

What is peace<\/h2>\n

First of all, it may be useful to recall what peace is in the perspective of Christian anthropology, with its biblical roots. In the seventh beatitude, the peacemakers are declared blessed.<\/strong>The reason given is that they will be called children of God. And the reason given is that they will be called children of God. That beatitude is an echo of the fullness expressed on the seventh day of creation, when God rested and saw that everything was not only good, but \"very good\".<\/p>\n

On Shabbat, the seventh day, man is invited to join God's rest. Hence the greeting among the Jews, schalom, which recalls and reactivates that peace, a greeting that is reinforced on Saturday, Shabbat schalom, wishing that day especially the peace that comes from God. In biblical culture and language, the opposite of that peace is sin.<\/strong>that is to say, disorder and the negation of love. And all this applies to things, people and society.<\/p>\n

Christians see this from the fruits of the paschal mystery. Jesus is the prince of peace (prophesied in Is 9:6), also from his years of labor and ordinary life in Nazareth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To work and make peace is to imitate and consider, to collaborate with what God does in his plan of salvation.<\/strong>. Building peace has a lot to do with working well, in tune with the Lord, in tune with people, seeking harmony and unity of life, in the perspective of Christian anthropology.<\/p>\n

The Pope's message can be analyzed following the steps of the method of discernment, which he once named: contemplate, discern, propose.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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