FREEDOM
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The divine & spiritual
power of intellect & will
to know & choose…
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…to act or not…
(commission or omission)
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like this or like that…
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in order to do good
deliberately…
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& to become a whole
holy person, with God’s
Grace…
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thus, reaching blissful
happiness...
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eternally
in love
in Heaven
with God.
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But all freedoms are not
equally blissful…
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Liberty is freedom
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But is liberty
the perfect freedom
of God’s children?
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The mentally ill may have liberty…
Is it freedom?
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‘A person is a slave of
whatever overcomes him’
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The phobic has liberty…
What of his power to panic or not?
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He has liberty and he had a choice…
Can he easily choose otherwise now?
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Liberty is the freedom
of external movement
from physical restraint
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Liberty may coexist with
the internal alienations
of folly, ignorance or
overwhelming passions
which limit our freedom
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Self-determination
is freedom
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The Hebrews were freed from slavery, yet, they
‘became slaves to things that…are not God’
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Nazis enjoyed liberty and self-determination…
Was it the freedom of God’s children?
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‘Everyone [with liberty and self-determination] who
commits sin is a slave of sin’
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Lucifer was free and deliberate…
The freedom of God?
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Self-determination is the
freedom
of internal choice or
deliberation from ignorance
and passion,
the freedom of indifference
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Self-determination may
coexist with the
alienation of sin which
leads to misery and
death
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‘Do not use freedom
[liberty and selfdetermination] as a
pretext for evil’
Saint Paul
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Virtue
is freedom
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Cardinal and
theological virtues
are freedom
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‘This is my commandment: love one another
as I love you … I no longer call you slaves’
The freedom of God?
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‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’
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‘I am free … I have made myself a slave to all ’
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‘The free person … is a slave of Christ’
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Virtue is the freedom
of love from sin,
the freedom of excellence
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To be alienated is to be
submitted to a power that
harms our dignity, which is
anything that is not God
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Virtue is the perfect power,
‘by the aid of God's grace’ to
act or not, like this or like that,
always & well ‘in the service
of what is good’ ‘and [to]
come freely to utter and
blissful perfection’.
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