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Fr. Hardon Archives - A Meditation on Liberty - Choice, Love and Sacrifice
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A Meditation on Liberty - Choice, Love and Sacrifice
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
I suggest that we reflect on the subject of liberty in the religious life-the
last thing I think you would expect for a meditation. I doubt if there is any
single subject on which more has been written in recent years than the subject
of freedom. It is, so the analysts of the Church’s problems tell us, at the
root of the crisis that is affecting Christianity in our day.
In popular literature and in so many of our songs, the young sing about the
freedom to be , to be themselves, to do what they want . . . just to be
free. Hence, the value of a meditation on freedom, the kind of freedom that
God evidently wants us to practice, the freedom of the children of God.
I would like to address myself to the subject of liberty or freedom under three
aspects which, if you wish, can be three points: liberty as choice, liberty
as love, and liberty as sacrifice. Then, as we go along, I will make some short
but, I hope, practical applications to our spiritual life.
The first and most obvious meaning of liberty is the ability to choose, to
have options offered by the mind. And the more options the mind offers, the
more free we are-which is one reason why affluent societies can be in such a
crisis: there are so many options among which to choose! Freedom, then, whatever
else it means, first means that I select and am not constrained to do something.
So we ask ourselves: how important is this liberty of choice for us as "
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