Is the World Reparable?

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Is the world reparable and is it our duty to repair it? Is there, in addition to individual salvation, a larger communal salvation?

Or is the world hoplessly corrupt, something from which we seek God’s aid to escape? Is the world designed to be so broken that we turn from it to God for salvation, huddling together for comfort in the mean time?

In modern Judaism there is the concept of Tikkun Olam, but this is a relatively modern invention, roughly corresponding to the development of socialism. Similarly, Christianity began experimenting with social crusades starting with the abolition of slavery.

But such movements to create a just world have often led to the worst outcomes, e.g. communism and fascism. Which leads back to the notion that mankind is not up to the job of repairing the world beyond making it a little more comfortable.
 
A certain amount of corruption is inevitable, what with original sin and all. But that doesn’t remove from us the obligation to keep trying to make this place the best that it can be.

That’s why such things as admonishing sinners and instructing the ignorant are considered to be works of mercy right alongside feeding the hungry or clothing the naked. Both the spiritual and corporal works of mercy have beneficial effects in this world as well as the one to come.
 
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Is the world reparable and is it our duty to repair it? Is there, in addition to individual salvation, a larger communal salvation?

Or is the world hoplessly corrupt, something from which we seek God’s aid to escape? Is the world designed to be so broken that we turn from it to God for salvation, huddling together for comfort in the mean time?

In modern Judaism there is the concept of Tikkun Olam, but this is a relatively modern invention, roughly corresponding to the development of socialism. Similarly, Christianity began experimenting with social crusades starting with the abolition of slavery.

But such movements to create a just world have often led to the worst outcomes, e.g. communism and fascism. Which leads back to the notion that mankind is not up to the job of repairing the world beyond making it a little more comfortable.
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Read the message of Fatima and that will answer your question. Fantastic thread though.
 
The world is in a state of journey, and it will have completed that journey at the time of the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom is in Christ, so when He comes in glory, the world be consummated. We live now in the Reign of Christ, the Age of the Church, and we can hasten the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God by living in the Holy Spirit, for He makes us holy like Christ. By sharing in His kingly office, we are princes and princesses, co-heirs of the Kingdom of God. The person who conquers sin in his own heart is a king. So let us conquer ourselves and live in Christ, and He in us, that we might hasten the coming of the Kingdom of God, for which the totality of creation waits with longing goans.
 
Let us not forget that Our Lady gave us the means of reparing the world. The Rosary and penance. Once Russia is consecrated the Immaculate Heart will triumph and there will be peace.
 
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