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In this merely exploratory reflection, we look at the Common Home, and not only at the natural habitat, because the Common Home presents other dimensions, such as history, memory, dignity, that is, it looks at the human person in entirety. Given the vastness of the theme and texts, we focus on LS and the Holy Scriptures to see how they help to build a truly human Common Home. To this end, we use three concepts to show how the fundamental role of justice in the construction of this Common Home expands beyond the present: the concepts of memory, justice, and supererogation. The Holy Scriptures shows that justice has effects over time, for it is not reduced to the execution of a sentence. Otherwise, in biblical terms justice is not only the implementation of duty nor just the obedience to a set of rules but expands itself to what goes beyond duty. At that point justice becomes justification.