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1 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> FREEDOM

2 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The power of intellect & will…

3 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …to act or not…

4 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …like this or like that…

5 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …in order to do good deliberately…

6 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> …thus, to reach happiness

7 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> But all freedoms are not equally blissful…

8 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty is freedom

9 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> But is liberty the perfect freedom of God’s children?

10 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Is it freedom? The mentally ill may have liberty…

11 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘A person is a slave of whatever overcomes him’

12 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> What of his power to panic or not? The phobic has liberty…

13 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Can he easily choose otherwise now? He has liberty and he had a choice…

14 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty is the freedom of external movement from physical restraint

15 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Liberty may coexist with the internal alienations of folly, ignorance or overwhelming passions which limit our freedom

16 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination is freedom

17 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The Hebrews were freed from slavery, yet, they ‘became slaves to things that…are not God’

18 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Was it the freedom of God’s children? Nazis enjoyed liberty and self-determination…

19 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Everyone [with liberty and self-determination] who commits sin is a slave of sin’

20 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The freedom of God? Lucifer was free and deliberate…

21 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination is the freedom of internal choice or deliberation from ignorance and passion

22 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Self-determination may coexist with the alienation of sin which leads to misery and death

23 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Do not use freedom [liberty and self- determination] as a pretext for evil’ Saint Paul

24 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Virtue is freedom

25 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Cardinal and theological virtues are freedom

26 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> The freedom of God? ‘This is my commandment: love one another as I love you … I no longer call you slaves’

27 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’

28 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘I am free … I have made myself a slave to all ’

29 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> ‘The free person … is a slave of Christ’

30 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Virtue is the freedom of love from sin

31 >>0 >>1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >> Virtue is the perfect power, ‘by the aid of God's grace’ to act or not, like this or like that, ‘in the service of what is good’ ‘, and [to] come freely to utter and blissful perfection’.


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