man’s freedom and responsibility and their role in his own salvation

1. HUMAN FREEDOM
AND SALVATION
In the Cateshism of
the Catholic Church
1730-1748

2. God created man a rational
being, conferring on him
the dignity of a person who
can initiate and control
his own actions.

3. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand
of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own
accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full
and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."

4. Man is rational and therefore like God;
he is created with free will and is master over his acts

5. Freedom is the
power, rooted in
reason and will,
to act or not
to act, to do this
or that, and so
to perform
deliberate
actions on
one's own
responsibility.

6. By free will one
shapes one's
own life.
Human freedom
is a force for
growth and
maturity in truth
and goodness;
it attains its perfection
when directed toward
God, our beatitude.

7. As long as freedom
has not bound
itself definitively to
its ultimate good
which is God, there
is the possibility of
choosing between
good and evil, and
thus of growing in
perfection or of
failing and sinning.

8. This freedom
characterizes
properly human
acts. It is the
basis of praise
or blame, merit
or reproach.

9. The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true
freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey
and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin."

10. Freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that
they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, knowledge of the good,
and ascesis enhance the mastery of the will over its acts.

11. Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished
or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit,
inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.

12. Every act directly willed is imputable to its author:
Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the
garden: - "What is this that you have done?“

13. He
asked
Cain
the same
question,
where is
your
brother?

14. The prophet Nathan questioned David in the
same way after he committed adultery with
the wife of Uriah and had him murdered.

15. An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from
negligence regarding something one should have known or done:
for example, an accident arising from ignorance of traffic laws.

16. An effect can be tolerated without being willed by its agent; for instance,
a mother's exhaustion from tending her sick child. A bad effect is not
imputable if it was not willed either as an end or as a means of an action,
e.g., a death a person incurs in aiding someone in danger.

17. For a bad effect to be
imputable it must be
foreseeable and the agent
must have the possibility of
avoiding it, as in the case of
manslaughter caused
by a drunken driver

18. Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings.
Every human person, created in the image of God, has the
natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being.
All owe to each other this duty of respect. 1738

19. The right to the exercise of freedom,
especially in moral and religious matters,
is an inalienable requirement of the
dignity of the human person.

20. This right must
be recognized
and protected
by civil
authority within
the limits of the
common good
and public order

21. II. HUMAN FREEDOM IN THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION
1739 Freedom and sin.
Man's freedom is limited and fallible. In fact, man
failed. He freely sinned. By refusing God's plan of
love, he deceived himself and became a slave to sin.

22. This first alienation
engendered a
multitude of others.
From its outset,
human history attests
the wretchedness and
oppression born of
the human heart in
consequence of the
abuse of freedom.

23. Threats to freedom. The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or
do everything. It is false to maintain that man, "the subject of this freedom,"
is "an individual who is fully self-sufficient and whose finality is the
satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly goods."

24. Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural conditions that are
needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often disregarded or violated.
Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the moral life and involve
the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin against charity.

25. By deviating from
the moral law
man violates his
own freedom,
becomes
imprisoned within
himself, disrupts
neighborly
fellowship, and
rebels against
divine truth.

26. By his glorious Cross Christ has won salvation for all men.
He redeemed them from the sin that held them in bondage.
"For freedom Christ has set us free." In him we have
communion with the "truth that makes us free."
1741 Liberation and salvation.

27. The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the Apostle
teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God."

28. 1742 Freedom and grace.
The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our
freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the
true and the good that God has put in the human heart.

29. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer,
the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we
grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those
we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world.

30. By the working of grace the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual
freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work - in the
Church and in the world: - Almighty and merciful God, in your
goodness take away from us all that is harmful, so that, made
ready both in mind and body, we may freely accomplish your will.

31. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 13-3-2022
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
All Souls Day
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Freedom
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Life in Christ
Love and Marriage 12,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Martyrs of North America and Canada
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in Hungary, Slovaquia
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr
Saint Albert the Great
Saint Anthony of Padua
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Saint James, apostle
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint Joseph
Saint Maria Goretti
Saint Martin of Tours
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Saint Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Saint Jean Baptiste MarieaVianney, Curé of Ars
Saint John N. Neumann, bishop of Philadelphia
Saint John of the Cross
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Saints Zachary and Elizabeth, parents of John Baptis
Signs of hope
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
Vocation to Beatitude
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Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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32. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 13-3-2022
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Dia de todos los difuntos
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
La Vida en Cristo
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Libertad
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Martires de Nor America y Canada
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Papa Francisco en Hugaría e Eslovaquia
Queridas Amazoznia 1,2,3,4
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1, 2, 3
Santa Agata, virgen y martir
San Alberto Magno
San Antonio de Padua
San Francisco de Asis 1,2,3,4
San Francisco de Sales
Santa Maria Goretti
San Ignacio de Loyola
San José, obrero, marido, padre
San Juan Ma Vianney, Curé de’Ars
San Juan de la Cruz
San Juan N. Neumann, obispo de Philadelphia
San Martin de Tours
San Maximiliano Kolbe
Santa Teresa de Calcuta
San Padre Pio de Pietralcina
San Patricio e Irlanda
Santiago Apóstol
Santos Zacarias e Isabel, padres de Juan Bautista
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Virgen de Guadalupe
Vocación a la bienaventuranza
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Vocación a evangelizar
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