[3] Spirituality of Mercy Flashcards
There is… a spirit of hedonism aboard today which beguiles men into thinking that life is nothing more than the quest for pleasure and satisfaction of human passions
Mater et Magistra, 235
Means ‘pleasure’ in Greek
Hedonism
The doctrine that pleasure (sensual pleasure) is the ultimate goal of life, man’s highest good & greatest happiness; Devotion to pleasure and self-gratification as a way of life; This philosophy is more often promoted through advertisements
Hedonism
Wants to have a pleasurable life to avoid any forms of suffering in life.
Hedonist
He stated “it is also necessary to reject the….total technical dominion over nature, because the natural environment is material to be manipulated at our pleasure”
Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritas, 48
This invites contemporary society to a serious review of its life-style, which, in many parts of the world, is prone to ________________, regardless of their harmful consequence
Hedonism and Consumerism
Ideology that emphasizes the acquisition and consumption of goods and services as a primary way of life.
Consumerism
T/F: Reducing nature merely to a collection of contingent data ends up doing good to the environment and even encouraging activity that fails to respect human nature itself.
FALSE
Pope Francis stated that we have created a ___________ which is now spreading
Throw away Culture
Ruthlessly consumes, exploits, and discards human life and our natural resources as one of the root causes.
Throw away Culture
Overflowing landfills, broken relationships, forgotten people, abandoned beliefs, dilapidated dreams
Signs of Throw away culture
What legal provision has been passed for resolving throwaway culture
RA 9003 Ecological Solid Waste Management Act 2000
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense ___________.
Pile of filth
T/F: Our present system of discards management is management and not disposal.
FALSE
Also known as collect and dump system, that is not ecological.
Hakot/Tambak
The excluded are not the “__________” but the outcast, the “____________”.
Exploited; Leftovers
To hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor
Laudato Si, 49
Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a ______________
Social approach
It is a spirit- filled movement of the heart that arises from our own experience of God’s mercy
Spirituality of Mercy
The spirituality of mercy lives both the ___________ and ____________ actions of mercy.
Corporal; Spiritual
T/F: As followers of Christ, mercy is indeed is our vocation.
TRUE
T/F: If we are truly faithful to God’s call to be merciful, it does not necessarily mean to include the natural world, the environment and non-human creatures.
FALSE
T/F: Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; although it can be an option or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.
FALSE
He believed that the virtue of “mercy” is the “the compassion in our hearts for another person’s misery, a compassion which drives us to do what we can to help him.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Two aspects of spirituality of mercy
Affective mercy and effective mercy
The emotion that we feel pity for those who suffer because we too are subject to such miseries which arises from our capacity for empathy
Affective mercy
It is something that we do, a positive action for the good of another, taking steps to relieve the miseries or meet the needs of others.
Effective mercy
In Latin, it means having a miserable heart for another person’s misery
Misericordia
Must be rooted in right reason, Effective action for the good of others
2 additional characteristics of mercy
Indicates in the direction of gratitude for an unmerited gift and unmerited grace
Mercy
Hebrew language that can be used in English which means mercy
Chesed
In Biblical and in Christian Augustinian language the ________ (cor) is the center of the human person and the seat not only of the emotions, but of conscience, determination and responsibility.
Heart
T/F: Mercy can become a mere parenthesis in the life of the Church
FALSE
Served as antidote to the double degradation brought about by the throw-away culture :
Culture of care
Laudato Si mentioned the word “care” ___ times, while “stewardship” only ____
35 times; twice
There has been a shift from duty-based ethics to a __________________
Virtue-based ethics of care
Objectification, Consumption, Maximization/squandering, Wasting/depleting, Disposal
Throw away culture (Sawà)
Contemplation, Compassion, Care, Communion
Culture of Mercy (Awà)
