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00:25In our previous catechesis, we saw one of the greatest gifts that abundant life brings us: love.
00:34Now let's look at freedom.
00:37Freedom, like love, comes from abundant life, since Jesus, through his death and resurrection, freed us from the slavery of sin.
00:46That's why we are free from vices, from our bad temper, etc.
00:51But, on the other hand, we have other kinds of ties that prevent us from being happy.
00:58The spiritual life, from which grace comes, makes us completely free from all our bonds, especially from ambition which ends up destroying our life.
01:11Only those who are fully free can lovingly follow the Lord.
01:15The apostle Paul summarizes this freedom that God has given him in his letter to his friends in Philippi, in which he tells us that he is used to everything, that it makes no difference to him whether he has or does not have, whether he has too much or too little.
01:33In all circumstances of life, he is always happy.
01:36This is what St. Ignatius calls holy indifference.
01:41When a man achieves this, there is no way he can lose his happiness.
01:46It's not that having things is bad, but having things becomes our prison, the chain that prevents us from following the Lord and doing his will.
01:57As we said, in this we find true happiness.
02:00The clearest example we have of this lack of freedom is the passage about the rich young man.
02:08We notice that the young man's refusal to answer Jesus's request leads to sadness.
02:16Freedom from poverty is the ability of a man to have without withholding.
02:22In other words, we can have things, but we shouldn't accumulate them.
02:26Zambé del Venerable said that what we have left over belongs to someone else.
02:32When a man understands this, he finds happiness and consequently can, without much difficulty, make those around him happy.
02:42because it will stop oppressing others, manipulating them for its own selfish interests, etc.
02:49The man who achieves this, possessing without possessing, is freed from all earthly attachments and becomes God's.
02:59and will be free to aspire to the best goods and gifts.
03:04Our modern world, cunningly used by our enemy, the devil,
03:09It seduces us very subtly in the web of selfishness.
03:13It makes us believe that freedom and happiness lie in having things.
03:18That sharing impoverishes us, that each person should have what they can afford,
03:24without taking into account whether others have what they need or not.
03:29Jesus teaches us precisely the opposite,
03:32that in sharing lies multiplication and true happiness.
03:37By sharing, no one lacks what is most necessary.
03:41Freedom brings us closer to God and helps us to properly value all the things He has placed in our hands.
03:50Because, freed from earthly and selfish affections, each temporal value acquires its own dimension.
03:58A free man will be able to correctly prioritize the things around him.
04:04It is not uncommon to find people in our community who are enslaved by alcoholism.
04:10drug addiction, prostitution, etc.
04:13which only bring them destruction, loneliness, sadness, bitterness,
04:18and the total unhappiness of them and all those around them.
04:22We must remember that everything belongs to us, but at the same time it belongs to others.
04:28which makes us administrators.
04:31Only a good steward knows how to reach out to his brother to share.
04:36knowing that he too will have to be open to receiving,
04:40And that's not complacency.
04:43We know that Jesus strongly rebukes the conformist.
04:47What does the above lead us to?
04:49Well, to inner freedom, to the purity of heart that frees me from envy
04:54and that drives me to improve myself, discovering within myself all the abilities that God has placed
05:01so that I and those around me can benefit from them.
05:07Only by living the freedom that Jesus communicates to us through abundant life,
05:11We can be happy, we can enjoy all the wonderful things
05:16that God has placed in our hands, but without being bound to them.
05:22As always, I invite you to expand this knowledge in our fundamental evangelization course.
05:27Visit our website www.evangelizacion.mx
05:32I'll see you tomorrow to continue our exploration of Jesus with the topic
05:36The promises of Jesus.
05:39Receive my blessing.
05:40See you tomorrow.
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