hermeneutical reflection on Vatican II Opportunity Council?
The Second Vatican Council was undoubtedly desirable for the following reasons, among them intimately connected:
1. complete the work begun by the First Vatican Council . Indeed, 18 July 1870 it was updated for the upcoming start of the Franco-Prussian War that began the next day, then taken to the Porta Pia (September 20, 1870), was suspended indefinitely . So the Pastor aeternus merely to deal with the Petrine primacy and the infallible teaching of the Roman Pontiff. His official title: " First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ " with the attribution of the adjective ordinal "first " to the constitution explicitly states that the Council was willing to adopt at least one up on the same theme ; it implicitly argues that the dogmatic teaching enshrined Pastor aeternus is incomplete. It will gradually be integrated with the teaching and papal encyclical Mystici Corporis of Pius XII, to be reconciled with the Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium . 2. to complete the work of Vatican I were recognized, evaluated and made the renewal of several enzymes that animate the theology and the life of the Church. With the Apostolic Constitution Provida Mater Ecclesia of Pius XII (1947) had been given the opportunity of consecration to God while remaining in the world, life form of secular institutes. Still on the initiative of Pius XII in the encyclical Fidei Donum (1957) had begun sharing between dioceses, the clergy. In addition, the movements of the Bible, liturgical and advocated a return to patristic sources for the renewal of life of the Church in favor of the contemporary world, as was visible in the spring missionary. Finally, the Catholic Church had to take a position on the newborn ecumenical movement (1910 Edinburgh Conference, 1948 birth of CEC conference in Amsterdam). About the desirability or otherwise of a council, the Roman Pope Saint Pius X and the venerable Pius XII had considered the possible convening of a council environment, as also appropriate.
Ecclesia semper reformanda
There was, there is still and always will be needed renewal or reform of the Church. Blessed John XXIII spoke of using the term somewhat reductive " update", surely a simplistic formulation of the perennial need for conversion to the Lord.
Until the end of the world we are under God's judgment , when, in imitation of the parents, we want to escape the Judgement of God we make our final status of sinners, confirming the idolatry inherent in every sin l ' Pride to escape the just Judge.
Stay under the verdict of God means to live the perennial call to conversion: only God is eternal and unchanging, and only those who do his will remains forever, everything else is transitory and it deserves to last as long as needed to bring us to God
This assessment criterion applies to the world for the Church, for all the reforms and the choices of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Criterion that the remarkable condemnation of the Church bureaucracy, the result of clericalism prevailing today, both in the church and in society.
The ministry, which is the black hole of contemporary Church
What is pastoral?
Etymologically derived from the noun pastor, biblical name for God that guards, watches and guides his people and to call those men whom he chooses to continue throughout the history of his guard, watch over and guide the people of God, prophets , judges, kings and priests, and in His Son Jesus, Lamb of God and the Good Shepherd, apostles, prophets, bishops, priests and deacons. The ministry is therefore the art of driving, watch and guard the flock, an art that applies only to ordained ministers, the Church hierarchy.
So, please, because almost everything in the Church today has assumed the status of pastoral care? Pastoral councils at all levels (parish, zonal, diocesan, national), training courses for pastoral workers. If everything is almost pastoral, meaning that almost everything is clerical, which in fact is true with the clericalism that afflicts many lay people involved and that is reflected in its opposite, the secularization of the clergy. Of course, this confusion of roles is also a consequence of more general liquidity of contemporary society, characterized by the non-differentiation between man and woman, struck by the indifference that according to the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is the spiritual disease today.
The clericalization pastoralism is the sign of the Church, its reduction to a mere bureaucratic body. If we consider the fact that bureaucratic involution of the ecclesial despite the rediscovery of the ecclesiology of communion, not only confirms the diagnosis made decades ago by Balthasar on the pernicious division between thinking (theology) and being (mystic), from which Hence the separation between the dogmatic and moral.
So pastoralism is not a recent illness of the Church, is not due to Vatican II, but has roots that sink through the centuries and which is, throughout the history of the Church. Already Blessed Antonio Rosmini work The Five Wounds of Holy Church (1848), which had indicated diseases afflicted the holy Church, and what remedies to cure it. Coming to the present degeneration of pastoralism affecting the Church is already evident with the Blessed John XXIII who convoked the council with the intention to implement a regrettable because mere " pastoral renewal" of the Church. In my opinion it is the pastoral nature of the Vatican to drop the limit from the data because it reveals dogmatic, or better, or the mysterious nature of salvation history. fact, as stated by the father and Balthasar, one must overcome the separation between theology and mysticism, which was followed by the split between the dogmatic and moral. Integrity must be restored characteristic of the apostolic preaching in the proclamation of the kerygma, the explanation given dogmatic or moral exhortation exhortations, all formed from the humus of prayer.
Do an adverse opinion on everything and is given the attribute of pastoral care, including the pastoral character of the Second Vatican Council. It is an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, neither better nor worse than the others, one of many. It is not the event of the twentieth century. For Christians, the event is only one: Jesus Christ, yesterday, today and forever.
The historical event of the twentieth century is the systematic murder fueled by hatred and contempt for human life. It has been realized in various ways: Armenian Genocide, Assyrian-Chaldeans and Greeks by the Ottomans (1915-23), famines and massacres at the hands of communist regimes in Russia (30s), Ukraine (1932-33), China (1956-61), Cambodia (1975-79), the genocide of Jews, Gypsies and Slavs by the Nazi regime (1938-45), the Hutu and Tutsi genocide in the Great Lakes region (1972, 1994), the massacre of unborn children with the return of abortion and euthanasia which eliminates sick, disabled, elderly. The hatred of life and the human person has been justified and promoted by different schools of thought: nationalism, communist atheistic materialism, paganism, pantheistic Nazi biologists is scientism, and produced on an industrial scale with the help of modern technology, a true hero today. Thus was narrated by the nightmare of Aldous Huxley's new world .
From this point of view the only Constitution of Vatican II formally classified as a ministry, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, better known as Gaudium et Spes , is far removed from pastoral to recover the genuine and important immutable doctrinal dimension. It is located within the furrow of the Social Doctrine of the Church inaugurated by Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII and fully developed by popes in the twentieth century, particularly by Paul VI in Humanae Vitae and Karol the Great in his extensive teaching on the dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.
logorrhoea
is a spiritual disease that afflicts the Church, a disease that afflicts many years, even with the pontificate of Pius XII and which is not exempt even the Second Vatican Council , with too many documents issued, too long or gave to the flood of words that the Magisterium of the Church after the Council has flooded the Church and the world, to other less and less eager to listen.
The then
card. Ratzinger had raised the issue of too many official documents produced by the Church, but without questioning the question. Fortunately, the People of God does not live the documents produced by the Church bureaucracy, composed mainly with its own language to the initiated, the so-called ecclesia injured. We hope to be able to ignore them, mostly to the Word of Life that is Jesus Christ.
The many words of their human logorrhea, as well as typical sign of some mental illness, illness of the spirit is also due to the inability to silence and lack of discernment between:
a. things that need to be said
b. things that can be said
c. things that need to be silenced
" The Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? "(Luke 18:8) With this question, Jesus concludes the parable of the judge and the widow whose purpose is explicit:" the need to pray always and not lose heart "(Luke 18:1). Faith is alive until the believer prays, as the dialogue between God and man began turning from God to man his word, continues only if the man answers to God, turning to Him in prayer. Prayer is all about: re-turn to God
" faith comes from listening comes through the word of Christ " (Romans 10:17). The apostle Paul emphasized the need to preach the Gospel, faithful to the tradition received (1 Cor 15:3), but it also highlighted the complementary side of the need to be quiet to hear the Word proclaimed. Silence is not limited to physical data and external, necessary and beneficial absence of noises, sounds, music and words. At this first level of silence should follow the silence of the heart and mind.
The crisis in the Church
The crisis of the church can not be due to one cause (the spirit of the Council). This is a simplistic diagnosis resting comfortably in laying all the blame on a mysterious spirit of the Council. The Church has until the end of the world in crisis because under God's judgment The crisis is not a curse to be avoided, but a blessing of God be made fruitful.
The spirit of the Council is a definition ambiguous to be defined. Intended as a plan to lobby should be excluded as partisan and non-Catholic. The spirit of reconciliation is not antithetical to the letter of the conciliar documents, as the Spirit of God is not antithetical to Scripture inspired by it. The letter is formed and the first formal expression of the spirit, without which Spirit would only wind, hurricane storm that sweeps the liquid surface chaotic and formless abyss of the origins (Genesis 1:2).
The text is the text, the text discussed, amended, approved and promulgated. The Second Vatican Council as all previous ones, as the Church of which expresses, not the ruler of the Holy Spirit, on the contrary is true Instead, the Church is dominated by the Spirit of God, to whose authority they appeal from the Councils of Jerusalem on " the Holy Spirit and we ..." (Acts 15:28).
I find that one possible cause, the only and perhaps not even the main, this crisis is the refusal of the Church to condemn the ruling error / errors. That refusal has left to enter the church, by its nature to believe in the infallible and know the truth of salvation, the error of relativism .
errors to creep in and doubly false, because it is hidden behind a mask of honesty, fairness, Opening and mercy toward those who err. But one thing is to welcome those who make mistakes, and accept other is almost sanctify the mistake! Evil must always be condemned, rejected and hated. An error is always said no loud and clear. The fact that God can write straight on crooked lines and to draw our own good, even through our bad deeds, does not mean that evil is equivalent to good, or that the fake is on the right.
relativism in the church, as well as feelings of love greasy false, is expressed with the obscure language and suggestive, such general and vague as to be able to affirm and deny the same principle, sumptuously drowning in hypothetical and secondary. Or you forget to say very clearly what the world does not want to hear. De-Christianized and the pagan world that is against the Church and the world that lives inside the hearts of believers.
