Monday, May 15, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 290 – Part II.
(Youcat
answer- repeated) Christ wants us to be “set free for freedom” (see Gal 5:1)
and to become capable of brotherly love. That is why he sends us the Holy
Spirit, who makes us free and independent of worldly powers and strengthens us
for a life of love and responsibility.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1741) Liberation and salvation. By his
glorious Cross Christ has won salvation for all men. He redeemed them from the
sin that held them in bondage. "For freedom Christ has set us free"
(Gal 5: 1). In him we have communion with the "truth that makes us
free" (Cf. In 8:32). The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the
Apostle teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom"
(2 Cor 3:17). Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God"
(Rom 8:21). 1741
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) The more we sin, the more we think only
about ourselves and the less well we can develop freely. In sinning we also
become more inept at doing good and practicing charity. The Holy Spirit, who
has come down into our hearts, gives us a heart that is filled with love for
God and mankind. We avail ourselves of the Holy Spirit as the power that leads
us to inner freedom, opens our hearts for love, and makes us better instruments
for what is good and loving.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1742) Freedom and grace. The grace of Christ
is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords
with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On
the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more
docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and
confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and
constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit
educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his
work in the Church and in the world: Almighty and merciful God, in your
goodness take away from us all that is harmful, so that, made ready both in
mind and body, we may freely accomplish your will (Roman Missal, 32nd Sunday, Opening Prayer: Omnipotens et misericors Deus, universa nobis adversantia propitiatus
exclude, ut, mente et corpore pariter expediti, quae tua sunt liberis mentibus
exsequamur).
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