1676. Pastoral discernment is needed to sustain and support popular piety and, if necessary, to purify and correct the religious sense which underlies these devotions so that the faithful may advance in knowledge of the mystery of Christ.180 Their exercise is subject to the care and judgment of the bishops and to the general norms of the Church.
At its core the piety of the people is a storehouse of values that offers answers of Christian wisdom to the great questions of life. the Catholic wisdom of the people is capable of fashioning a vital synthesis…. It creatively combines the divine and the human, Christ and Mary, spirit and body, communion and institution, person and community, faith and homeland, intelligence and emotion. This wisdom is a Christian humanism that radically affirms the dignity of every person as a child of God, establishes a basic fraternity, teaches people to encounter nature and understand work, provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life. For the people this wisdom is also a principle of discernment and an evangelical instinct through which they spontaneously sense when the Gospel is served in the Church and when it is emptied of its content and stifled by other interests.181
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
436. What does “Decalogue” mean?
293. When is it possible to give Holy Communion to other Christians?
497. When is it moral to regulate births?
203. What is meant by the “resurrection of the body”?
214. In what does the final judgment consist?
472. Why must society protect every embryo?
533. What is the greatest human desire?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
What is the role of faith in the midst of suffering, according to Job 13:15-16?
How important is God’s love to our lives, according to 1 John 4:8?
The Woman and the Dragon: The Struggle Between Good and Evil (Revelation 12:1-17)
What is the story of Abimelech and forgiveness in Judges 9:22-57?
