the indissoluble relationship between natural and supernatural life
synthesis highest elevation of human dignity
How many times again, even in this magazine, you do not can fully understand the political and administrative Sturzo if it is recalled that he was above all a priest.
Sturzo, said Joseph Palladino (in "The spiritual approach of Don Luigi Sturzo") "considered the political activity secular ... "but did not see it any ... incompatible with his political involvement and his priesthood, but in the transfused it to give it one big vocation."
His whole life was oriented to the fusion of all aspects of human life socio-political and religious, were not separated from each other and together they had a single purpose: the common good, that the supreme good that can be achieved only when the supernatural is inserted into the human process.
The natural society, said Sturzo, is a "... real synthesis with the supernatural ... supernatural life in human society as integrative, synthesizing and transcending the natural life, is taken as a divine initiative and as a man matching the man to the divine. "
"In the concrete experience" in the natural life, the vegetative, intellectual with "... his character in social life, family, professional, political and moral ... there is in us a vegetative or animal life that is autonomous while being distinct from rational life, so there's only one in us that autonomy does not imply any relationship of supernatural life. "
This indissoluble relationship between natural and supernatural life is the highest synthesis of the person human in which "... the particular purpose of each of us can not exist outside the orbit of the goals natural to man, which add up in the search for good ..". (In "real life" in the "Vocation")
man to realize his personality takes on a character who becomes the physiognomy of the soul that does not neglect his natural vocation, "which" as stated Sturzo ... is a call ... which leads us to work and to conquer us and the world around us. Our personality is formed and is characterized by calling (inner voice) that becomes purposes (well to be achieved). It is a prerequisite to the realization of the supernatural life in us that we are high. As the supernatural life is not realized in practice if not in living, so the supernatural vocation in concrete innovation in itself, subject, the natural one. "
There can be no man "... a purely natural life, but a natural life elevated to supernatural so there is a natural vocation to him, which is ordered to a supernatural vocation."
I do not think there are words more effective than those expressed above by the high priest of Caltagirone to fully understand the true life of a man and as the transcendental aspect is essential to maximize the highest levels of human dignity.
On the other hand, the intrinsic appeal of Sturzo the vocation of man to the supernatural and the common good can only flourish if it does not possess the food of human faced by religion in the extended family to a natural society, including states, federations of states and international companies.
This concept of love is the true revolution of Christianity as opposed to selfishness by the sense of our actual lives, when we talk about their observance of the commandments, and we realize how they are the foundation of our life raised to supernatural and I like to revisit Sturzo when he says that the observance of God's commandments is the result of love and how it happens in the human order: "... those who love their parents, children, spouse, girlfriend, friend tries to please his beloved, the second it desires, it prevents the signs, sacrifices himself for it; thus tends to become similar to it, because in him there is a sense of dedication, love each has its own laws and its sacrifices. Entering into a communion of love settles this race of self-giving for others, self-sacrifice for others, as an inseparable link between love and action. "
This unbreakable link between love and action is realized when the man listen to that inner voice that pushes him in his actions to continuously seek the purpose of development, welfare, the fullness of the self and its expansions.
know and love each other to tend to the fullness of their being do nothing, as Sturzo said that responding to that inner voice (call) "that drives him to achieve those ends that are joined by connatural man looking for the common good."
"... the search for the common good is fueled by love, raised to the supernatural natural life as well as the natural vocation for the common good can not being ordered to a supernatural vocation ("True Life").
Man can not neglect this natural vocation that leads us to the purpose for the common good to achieve high supernatural life.
Sturzo as a priest, but as a man, he instilled in others through this natural vocation and its political and social action has tried to give it that indissoluble link between natural and supernatural life as having purpose, the love of others and for the common good, God has led in the human heart so that they will raise to the supernatural and his dignity as a human being.
With love and inner vocation seeking the common good and not for themselves, the policy acquires a higher value, imbued with a nobility that the sense of this love
delineai In 2001, when the contents of the series of conferences on the Social Doctrine of the Church looked for answers on social issue facing the misery and injustice in the world.
struck me then to read some passages of "Populorum Progressio of Paul VI's encyclical on the development of peoples in which he laid emphasis on the development of humanism where people must have a strong evangelical message as a beacon that "... imposing" the encyclical reads "to be of service men and ... convince them of the urgency of action in solidarity. "
Paul VI went on saying how the social encyclicals not "... fail in their duty, their own office, to project on the social issues of their time, the light of the Gospel."
These observations confirmed me the importance of politics, the high, that the service of men for the common good and not for themselves.
A policy that was basically that of Sturzo which was not only a sociologist and a politician but it was mainly, as we argued in the previous rows, a priest and his example and his thought was an authentic witness to Christ.
He was a man of faith, but also action and worried, like other large Catholic, to give dignity to man, founded cooperatives, banks opened and found the system to create job opportunities always keeping in mind that this is essential to satisfy basic needs of every man and his family.
Sturzo But it was not the only one to pursue with determination the Gospel message, and I mind is the creation of numerous rural banks in Germany from an idea in 1849 of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, who organized a cooperative agricultural loans trying to leave so the peasants and smallholders from the oppression of usurers. In Italy some
Wollemborg followed Raiffeisen and the same system, with the help of parish priests, in 1892 created 72 rural banks, cooperatives many around them were born Catholic, not only in the Veneto and Lombardy, but pushed on, thanks to Sturzo, also in Sicily.
There are many other examples of saints, priests and lay people who have made a major contribution in the direction of "making human life more human" (Gaudium et Spes by): enough to remember the Saints social Piedmont 800 that bother to feed and unfortunate men trying to survive with speakers, schools, laboratories, small craft businesses and cooperatives to build their future.
We must remember in this regard, figures such as St. John Bosco, Don Cafasso, Don Murialdo, Don Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo and others who worked, among uprooted and desperate, in a world that saw growing out the gap between those who had a job and who groped for the day.
do not need to go further except to say that all these men did nothing but fight to spread the seeds of the gospel in the world whose only goal was only the love of others, they were also practical in solving the social question Leo XIII set himself as the first social encyclical, Rerum Novarum.
The cycle of conferences of five evenings that ended December 14, 2001 organized by the International Study Centre Don Luigi Sturzo Asti "The Church's social doctrine in a changing world" has the same thread of the foregoing that there has never been broken: the dignity of man, where man himself was always at the center of all exposures with the attempt to resolve the perennial conflict between the "physical plane of existence and opulence of one of the other" (Centesimus Annus), a conflict that is resolved in the peace which is built on the foundation of justice and love for others.
All contribute, each according to his ability to create national wealth and this should be justly distributed throughout the community, must benefit all "being universal interest"
We thirst for truth "and as Catholics we have forgotten, or perhaps do not know, some important moments of Christian history such as that of the great teaching of the school of canon law which developed their economic research dealing with it as moral theology, in substance they took into account the moral right of justice. Never remember
S. Thomas Aquinas with his important theory of the right price, a price that is seen only in terms of supply and demand of goods in the economy, but also takes account of social relations and ethical criterion.
In reality, political action must be to seek the common good, this can be achieved through love and the Gospel has to be to create a citizen to become better than today, the policy must be "... a form of being elected, without extravagance, contemplative, but without weakness, wealth appears not as an element of ostentation, but as an object of rational use, and we do not feel shameful poverty in itself, but rather, the lack of effort to avoid it, "this is what Pericles said , the greatest politician of Athens, one of the greatest statesmen who ever lived, there is no doubt that these words from today's world would still have much to learn ..
Marcello Figuccio
CISS President Asti
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