Conceptual Key: Prosperity 
Fragment of ecclesial documents that talk about prosperity, wealth and justice 

By: C.L. Rossetti | Source: Vatican.va 

In the material prosperity represents a divine blessing (cf. P.E. Dt 28.12). There is the consciousness that everything, wealth and poverty, comes from the Lord (Si 11.14). Wealth is good when it is the fruit of the fear of God (Sal 25,12-13) and destined to exercise beneficence (Sal 112.5). Otherwise, abundance hinders the heart, making it foolish and proud (Sal 49.13; Ez 28.5). Biblical wisdom leads to asking God to possess the righteous: what is enough to be thankful to the Lord and not to resort to robbery (Pr 30,8-9). But true prosperity is in wisdom, in the love of God and in the observance of his Torah, which is worth more than "a thousand pieces of gold and silver" (cf. P.E. Sal 119.72; Sb 7.11). Christian teaching is in continuity with the First Testament. Jesus often stigmatizes the danger of the riches that prevents entering the Kingdom (cf. Mt 19.23), who stun the heart, close it to the hope of Providence, blind it to the true wealth that is obtained through alms and charity and desensitized to → → Neighbor suffering (cf. Lc 12,15-34; 16, 19SS). In the Third Gospel lies a theology of the redemption of material wealth through charity: the faithful are called to "enrich himself in order of God" (Lk 12.21); to become friends with the money used with a liberality without prejudice (LK 16.9). The perspective is always that of "eternal life in the coming world" (Lk 18.30). It is understood that in Christianity the perspective is not demonized but must be integrated into the search for true and eternal wealth, which the Lamb has inherited (cf. 1 Tm 6,17-19; Ap 5.12). The more you believe in the eternal reward, the more you live with sobriety, justice and true peace on this earth.