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February 9, 2025

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Being like yeast

Bible

Lk 5, 1-11

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch. “Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.“ When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come to help them. They came and filled both boats so that the boats were in danger of sinking. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.“ For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. Jesus said to Simon,

“Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.“ When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him.


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DOCAT

How are social doctrine and faith connected ?

Not everyone who is socially or politically involved is a Christian. But someone can hardly call himself a Christian if he is not socially involved. The Gospel very emphatically leads people to commit themselves to love, justice, freedom, and peace. When Jesus proclaims the coming of the Kingdom of God, he does not just heal and save individual human beings; rather, he starts a new form of community—a kingdom of peace and justice. Now God alone can bring about this kingdom definitively. Christians, however, should work for a better society. They should build a city of man “that is more human because it is in greater conformity with the Kingdom of God” (Compendium of Social Doctrine 63). When Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to yeast that gradually leavens a large measure of dough (Mt 13,33), he shows the way in which Christians should work in society.

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