CRY OUT WITH JOY TO GOD....HOW?
Rev Fr James Yeo taught at his Catholic Moral Theology class:
“When freedom is seen as an absolute, moral chaos, relativism, subjectivism arise. And consequently, human conscience become the creator of what is good and evil. The human conscience becomes the creator of truth.
Instead of building a conscience based upon truth, society today has conscience invent what is truth, what is good and what is evil. And this leads to the disappearance of objective truth. And one then goes about looking for solutions that gives one peace, feel at ease, be happy with and we foolishly take these as truth."
St John Paul II said in his encyclical Veritatis Splendour [The Spendour of Truth]
"Certainly people today have a particularly strong sense of freedom…there is the insistent demand that people be permitted to "enjoy the use of their own responsible judgment and freedom, and decide on their actions on grounds of duty and conscience, without external pressure or coercion”…..
Certain currents of modern thought have gone so far as to exalt freedom to such an extent that it becomes an absolute, which would then be the source of values. The individual conscience is accorded the status of a supreme tribunal of moral judgment which hands down categorical and infallible decisions about good and evil…the notion of freedom must be tied to a measure of reality - to the truth."
And truth cannot be what we create. The world changes but truth is unchanging and it is absolute. 'I am the truth, the way and the life" John 4:16. Jesus is the truth. He was, He is and He will ever be. If we live by the Word of God, we live in freedom, free to enjoy the fullness of life, The precepts of the Lord gives us freedom and enable us to live in the fullness of our human dignity as true heirs of the heavenly Kingdom. Only the truth makes us free.
"Many misconceive that freedom means being able to do our own thing: to do what we want, when we want. There is no such thing as "our own thing". It's just what the devil likes to promote/ manipulate. But there is such a thing as freedom to do the right things. True freedom is freedom to do Gods will. That is the greatest thing human beings can possibly do...that is the ultimate dignity of the human person.
May the Lord have mercy, open our hearts and give us wisdom.
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