SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lumen Gentium, Eucharist, Common Good
16 May 2012
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Also when in church we take the eucharist because we are all gathered and talking the eucharist. Its a union relationship with god as its foundation and basis. Family and marriage itself is a communion. Final communion and unity is found then in the kingdom of god: christ has united himself to every person. Which means that everyone shares to some extent -according to john paul the second- a bond of communion with christ. In gaudium et spes: article #24 humankind=one family, #25 social life and social sin, #26 human dignity and rights =common good. In connection with the notion of the common good. Common good describes unity and attains at building each other. Common good becomes the ideal that social life strives for; that each person/group does for each other. And because of this nature society also has social structures. Existence of social structure requires in an investment in social justice.
