1. Common Good
Prepared by:
Jonah Lea Añes
Jan Pauline Rosal
Ylyssa Marie Tolentino
Ma. Ynah Rose Soriano
2.
3. Augustinian Rule 7,2
“The degree of which you are
concerned for the common
good (rem communem) rather
than for your own, is the
criterion by which you can
judge how much progress you
made.”
4. Common Good
• The sum total of social
conditions which allow people,
either as groups or as
individuals to reach their
fulfilment more fully and more
easily.
5. 3 essential elements
• The respect for the person as such;
• The social well-being and
development of the group to which
the person belongs;
• Peace which is the stability and
security of the just order.
6. Lucan description of the Jerusalem
community:
The community of believers
was of one heart and one mind
and no one claimed that any of his own,
but they had everything in common. . .
There was no needy person among them,
for those who owned property or houses
would sell the,
bring the proceeds of the sale
and put them at the feet of the apostles
and they were distributed to each according to need.
7. • Augustinian community consciousness
urges us to do what ever we can make
the ideal of the primitive community
of Jerusalem an inspirational force
both in the ecclesial and the human
communities, so that sharing of
goods may be the sign and sacrament
of unity of hearts and everyone may
have what he requires, thus leaving
no one in need.
8. • Augustinian spirituality
requires us to promote a
fraternal distribution of goods
which will show that we all
believe ourselves to be friends
and brothers in Jesus Christ
under the fatherland of God.
9. Those who desire to have an Augustinian mode
presence in the world takes as their specific
apostolate making unity and peace a reality in
the Church and in human society:
• This requires us to rid ourselves
to others of narrowness and
selfishness, and become attuned
to a broader social love, joining
ourselves to others in such wise
that we may have only “one mind,
the mind of Christ.”
10. • Christian formation in
Augustinian values, therefore,
cannot prescind from an attitude
that takes the common good
seriously. Love, when it is true, is
always directed away from
oneself; it is trancendent.
11. The two-fold commandment
of love translate into working
for the common good; working
for the common good is service.
