Today, we hear from Ronnie Santana: a Licensed Office Manager for American Family Insurance in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He’s got some solid insight into our next Lenten Virtue... JUSTICE: 1. Doing what is right for the sake of the other. 2. Justice is not about doing what is legally required of you but rather justice is about giving the other what is due with your entire self, recognizing their dignity as a human person. Justice is commonly understood to be that action which one acts in order to render unto the other whatever is right. Yet, I noticed that in the cases when I was actualizing the virtue of ‘justice’ I was in fact doing so in its most minimal understanding. This minimal understanding of justice I name positive justice. Positive justice is pharisaic justice. It is doing things according to the letter of the law while being incapable of understanding why a particular action may be just due to ignorance or to hardness of heart. Contrary to this, true justice demands right action not just on pharisaic terms but also on terms which recognize the dignity of the human person. True justice recognizes the dignity of the human person and responds according to the love of Jesus. The Lord loves us so much that he gives us the freedom to determine what is right and wrong to do according to the dictates of our conscience! Pope Francis stated in Lumen Fidei: “Faith does not merely gaze at Jesus, but sees things as Jesus himself sees them, with his own eyes: it is a participation in his way of seeing.” So too with the virtue of justice, true justice is about seeing “things as Jesus himself sees them” and then acting in a way that renders unto the other whatever is due. See with the eyes of Jesus, love with the heart of Jesus, act with the will of Jesus.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:20:15 +0000
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