Freedom and the Limits of Human Nature
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. |
| 0:02.0 | Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:05.0 | Amen. |
| 0:06.0 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. |
| 0:09.0 | Yesterday, I wanted to help you see that the devil wants us to think that God is a tyrannical master, |
| 0:19.0 | that God takes away our freedom by giving us the Ten Commandments |
| 0:24.0 | and the moral law and the laws of the Catholic Church. See, Satan wants us to rebel against God, |
| 0:31.4 | just like a slave would rebel against a master. But also yesterday we tried to explain the way that the Ten Commandments, |
| 0:40.9 | the moral law, are really just an expression of our God-given design. It's like the owner's manual. |
| 0:50.3 | And the more we follow our design, the more free we become. |
| 0:55.3 | But the more we go against our design, the less free we become until we destroy ourselves. |
| 1:03.8 | Now today we have to understand the nature of freedom and the limits of human nature. |
| 1:13.4 | Our God-given free will, the freedom to choose, is a very great gift. |
| 1:19.7 | It's what makes us free to shape our own character, to choose our own destiny, to determine |
| 1:26.2 | the kinds of persons we shall become. |
| 1:29.8 | And yet, says St. Thomas, our freedom to choose only pertains to a choice of means, |
| 1:36.7 | not to a choice of the ends. What does he mean by that? He means that we are free to choose |
| 1:43.6 | among different kinds of actions |
| 1:45.2 | or strategies or external things to pursue, but we are not free to decide what our happiness, |
| 1:53.5 | our flourishing, our fulfillment consists in. That has already been determined, and there is |
| 2:00.7 | nothing we can do about it. |
| 2:06.3 | Our Father who art in heaven, hallow it be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. |
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