FREEDOM!

When in your life you felt most

free?

When in your life you felt most

unfree?

What is freedom?
 OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM
INTERIOR ignorance, disordered
passions, personality defects, fears, bad
habits, prejudices, psychological
disturbances.

EXTERIOR FORCES violence force,

threat of violence.
Sources of these obstacles:
BIOLOGICAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL
SOCIAL PRESSURES economic,
political, cultural.
 SIN
THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO
AUTHENTIC FREEDOM.

Liberation to true freedom means

1st & foremost liberation from the
Slavery of SIN
 Levels of Freedom
Freedom of With Focuses
Choice indefinite on
number of DOING
choices

Fundamental Has only Focuses

Freedom one definitive on
choice: BEING
DOING THE
GOOD
 Levels of Freedom
Freedom of Restricted to See
Choice self- others
determination restrict
ones
freedom.

Fundamental Open to Others

Freedom others make
possible
ones
freedom
 Levels of Freedom
Freedom of Against moral Not truly
Choice obligation. free.

Fundamental Helped by Most

Freedom moral FREE.
obligation.
 TRUE FREEDOM

Is freedom to do the good.

It involves, first of all : freedom from
everything that opposes our true
self-becoming with others in the
community.
Authentic Freedom
Must lead a person to the fulfillment of
his original nature of being good,

Created
In the & the fulfillment
image of of his BAPTISMAL
God GRACE
FREEDOM From
FREEDOM For

A task, a process
 FREEDOM of the CHILDREN of
GOD
The goal of this process and the task of
personal freedom is to be set free from
slavery to corruption and share in the
glorious freedom of the children of God
(Rom. 8:21)
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is freedom (2Cor.3:17)
The power of Christs Spirit within us.
A life of loving service
We find our true selves by imitating Christ.
Freedom to attain the good simply means
to act as Jesus did.
True Freedom is for love & moral
obligation and laws serve to foster our
universal vocation to love.
Freedom & Moral Obligation
Freedom is inseparable from moral
obligation.
To be free one must be responsible.
Laws & Moral Obligations do not restrict
our freedom and the freedom of others.
BUT, they actually protect each ones
freedom.
Freedom is a GIFT & a TASK
Jn 8:32
The truth will set you
free.
Gal. 5:1,13,16
It was for freedom Christ set us
free; so stand firm and do not
submit again to the yoke of slavery.
Do not use this freedom as an
opportunity for the flesh, rather
serve one another through love, I
say then: live by the Spirit.
1 Pt. 2:16
Live as freemen. Do not use your
freedom as a cloak for vice. In a
word, live as servants of God.