Article 1 SACRAMENTALS

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

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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