Gaudium et spes

Joys and Hopes

GAUDIUM ET SPES

Human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed.

Group 5: St. Dominic

Members:

Patricia Ann Feliciano

Patricia Nicole Dela Cruz

Ovian Bulatao

Allen Chester Sanchez

HUMAN DIGNITY

MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE

POLITICAL COMMUNITY

PEACE

BACKGROUND• POPE: Vatican II council• DATE: Dec. 7, 1965• HISTORY:The document is an overview of the Catholic Church's

teachings about humanity's relationship to society, especially in reference to economics, poverty, social justice, culture, science, technology and ecumenism. Approved by a vote of 2,307 to 75 of the bishops assembled at the council, it was promulgated on the day the council ended.

WHY GAUDIUM ET SPES WAS CREATED?

• The council

• For the human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed.

Human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed.

INTRODUCTION• The “joys and hopes, sorrows and anxieties” of the

people of the world are the concerns of the People of God.

• Church’s duty: to scrutinize the “signs of the times”.• Technological changes have caused social changes.• Conflicting forces have ensued: tremendous wealth

and abject poverty, great freedom and psychological slavery.

• Conviction has grown that humanity can establish a political order that will serve human dignity.

SITUATION OF MEN IN THE MODERN WORLD

We are in a new age of human history, since the social and cultural circumstances of life have profoundly changed and is still changing due to industrialization, urbanization, communication, and socialization as well as changes in attitudes, values, and norms of behavior.

There is a mounting increase in the sense of independence and responsibility

Human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed.

But there are also negative ones: splits have developed from within individuals to nations and worse between people's faith and their lives.

The magnified power of humanity threatens to destroy the race itself.

SITUATION OF MEN IN THE MODERN WORLD

Human person deserves to be preserved; human society deserves to be renewed.

THE CHURCH AND MAN'S

CALLING

SOME PROBLEMS OF SPECIAL URGENCY

THE CHURCH AND MAN'S

CALLING

HUMAN DIGNITY• AS NATURE OF HUMAN

- Created in God’s image (free and intelligent), and as a social being.

-Split within self: inclination toward good and evil.

-Dignity depends on freedom to obey one’s conscience.

HUMAN DIGNITY• HUMAN COMMUNITY

-Advancement of individuals and society depends on everyone.

-All must work for the common good.

-Everything necessary for a truly human life must be made available for us.

-Scripture mandates love of neighbor; every person is our neighbor; active love is necessary.

-Jesus calls us God’s children so we should treat each other as sisters and brothers.

HUMAN DIGNITY• CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD

-The Church and humanity experience the same earthly situation.

- The Church is not bound to any particular political, economic, or social system.

-The Church needs to purify itself continually.

- Individual Christians need to penetrate the world with a Christian spirit and witness to Jesus in the midst of human society.

-The Church can be helped by the world in preparing the ground for the Gospel.

-The Church’s mission, part saving and part eschatological, begins in this world; Jesus is Lord of history.

SOME PROBLEMS OF SPECIAL URGENCY

MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY- Marriage is intended for the procreation and education of children and a whole manner and communion of life.

- Responsible parenthood is advocated.

-The healthy condition of individuals and society depends on stable families.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE• BASIC PRINCIPLES

-Fundamental imbalances between wealth and poverty exist in today’s world.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

-Technological progress which serves the whole person must be fostered.

SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE• ECONOMIC LIFE

-Human labor is superior to other elements of economic life; economic activity detrimental to the worker is wrong and inhuman.

-Public authorities can guard against those misuses of private property which hurt the common good.

-Genuine sharing of goods is called for.

POLITICAL COMMUNITY- Modern changes have increased the awareness of human dignity and the desire to establish a just political-juridical order.

- Public authorities (and individual citizens) should work for the common good.

-Church and political community

PEACE• BASIC PRINCIPLES

• Most noble meaning of “peace”—based on love, harmony, trust, and justice—should be fostered.

PEACE• AVOIDANCE OF WAR

• Non-violence and conscientious objection are legitimate.

• Just defense is permissible, but not wars of subjugation.

• Participation in armed services is allowed, but not blind obedience to orders.

• With new weapons, a new evaluation of war is needed.

• Arms race is not the way to build peace; it can actually foster wars and it injures the poor.

• No act of war at population centers is permissible.

PEACE• BUILDING UP THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

• Causes of dissension, especially injustices, need to be eliminated.

• Greater international cooperation demands the establishment of an international organization corresponding to modern obligations.

• Development of whole person is to be fostered.

• Ecumenical cooperation is needed to achieve justice.

• Church must be present to injustice.

FAMILY

With their parents leading the way by example and family Prayer, children and everyone gathered around the family hearth will find a readier path to human maturity, salvation and holiness.

ADVOCACIES

CULTURE

• Human culture must evolve today to develop the whole human person and aid man to his duties to whose fulfillment all are called

“Man comes to a true and full humanity only through culture.”

ADVOCACIES

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE

“Man is the source, the center, and the purpose of all economic and social life.”

Labor must: be adapted to the needs of the person and to his way of life, unfold their own abilities and personality through the performance of their work; enjoy sufficient rest and leisure to cultivate their familial, social and religious life; have the opportunity to freely develop their energies and potentialities; and obey basic rights of the human person.

ADVOCACIES

PEACE

ADVOCACIES

Peace is not merely the absence of war, instead it is an enterprise of justice. Peace results from its divine Founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice. This peace on earth cannot be obtained unless personal well-being is safeguarded and men freely and trustingly share with one another the riches of their inner spirits. Peace is likewise the fruit of love, which arises from love of neighbor and results from the peace of Christ.

"The Lord says, peace I leave with you, My own peace I give you; not as the world gave do I give. Do not let your hearts be troubled or

afraid."

ADVOCACIES

- Christians should cooperate willingly and wholeheartedly in establishing an international order that includes a genuine respect for all freedoms and amicable brotherhood between all. This is all the more pressing since the greater part of the world is still suffering from so much poverty that it is as if Christ Himself were crying out in these poor to beg the charity of the disciples. Do not let men, then, be scandalized because some countries with a majority of citizens who are counted as Christians have an abundance of wealth, whereas others are deprived of the necessities of life and are tormented with hunger, disease, and every kind of misery. The spirit of poverty and charity are the glory and witness of the Church of Christ.