Freedom

St. Josemaria Institute Podcast

St. Josemaria Institute

St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei, Christianity, Spirituality, Catholic, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Gospel

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On today's podcast we are reminded, for our contemplation, of the words Pope Benedict XVI offered on the meaning of freedom: “Who is freer than the One who is the Almighty? He did not, however, live his freedom as an arbitrary power or as domination. He lived it as a service. In this way he ‘filled’ freedom with content, which would otherwise have remained an ‘empty’ possibility of doing or not doing something. . .freedom draws its meaning from love . . .” If it is true happiness that we are...

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0:00.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.
0:14.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:18.0	I ask your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.
0:23.6	My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
0:32.6	During these past weeks we have been contemplating our Lord's preparation for his passion and death.
0:43.4	We find ourselves spellbound by all that Jesus did, all he suffered, to liberate us from the bondage of sin.
0:55.4	All that he did in order to restore our freedom.
1:00.0	On Holy Saturday, we read from an ancient homily
1:03.1	that depicts Jesus after his death,
1:07.3	descending to what is referred to as the hell of the just,
1:11.6	where he first seeks out Adam and Eve.
1:14.6	And he says to Adam,
1:18.6	I order you, O sleeper, to awake.
1:22.6	I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell.
1:30.9	Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.
1:34.6	Rise up, work of my hands.
1:38.2	You who were created in my image.
1:42.1	Rise, let us leave this place.
1:47.7	For you are in me, and I am in you.
1:54.7	Together we form only one person, and we cannot be separated.
1:58.1	How moving to hear Jesus say,
2:00.6	work of my hands. You who were created in my image.
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