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We witness different approaches to God, the Church, spiritual and material things. You also know people who are baptized say “we believe” and their life reveals something else. Jesus told Thomas, “I am the way, the truth, and the life…” (Jn 14:6).

In the Easter season, we read from the Gospels, especially from those parts where the apostles’ faith matures. Thomas called Didymium said: “Unless I see the marks of the nails on his hands and put my finger into the nail wounds and put my hand into his side, I will not believe” (Jn 20:25). And on the eighth day, “Jesus said to him: “You have believed, because you have seen me. Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed” (Jn 20:28-29). Here, too, we see that reproach is not just reproach. Thomas was experiencing great disappointment. We already have many comments on the words of the Lord Jesus. We have heard many interpretations of the Gospel texts. We have become convinced that Jesus is truly the Good Shepherd and the “gate to the sheep” (John 10:7). The apostle Philip was also reprimanded at the last supper, when the Lord Jesus said goodbye to the apostles. Yes, he witnessed the teachings and miracles of the Lord Jesus for three years. He has not yet matured in faith. Jesus had not yet died and risen from the dead, and especially the Holy Spirit had not yet descended upon him. And yet Jesus reproaches Philip – he did not cooperate with God’s grace – which is what the Lord Jesus wants to remind us.

We are taught, explained that it is necessary to cooperate with God’s grace. Faith is a constant struggle between good and evil as long as we live on earth. However, we are not dependent only on our own strength in our battles and works of faith. Jesus reminds us: “Do not let your hearts be troubled! You believe in God, believe also in me” (Jn 14:1). Jesus sent us the promised Holy Spirit. Not only the apostles on the fiftieth day after his resurrection, but we also received him, especially in the sacrament of confirmation and many times before after receiving the sacrament. No one will come to the Father who wants to bypass Christ. He says, “I am the way, the truth and the life” (Jn 14, 6). The path means orientation, meaningful direction, constancy, certainty. This is what Jesus gives to the person who believes. When the Bible speaks of God’s truth, it means God’s faithfulness and reliability, on which man can unconditionally rely, on which he finds his salvation. And life – life is the gift of Jesus. This is not about natural life, supernatural life, or salvation. Whoever accepts Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life comes to the Father. Fellowship with the Father is the ultimate goal and complete fulfilment of human search and desire. So our life acquires meaning and security when we rely on Jesus. Therefore, unnecessary fear and anxiety have no place in our lives. It is true that life sometimes brings sorrow. For example, when a loved one leaves us. However, death is not the end. It is just a change, a transition from earthly life to eternal life.

In his book Through Your Eyes, Michael Quist writes: “Do the dead exist? No, there are no dead, Lord. They are only alive on our earth and in eternity. Death exists, Lord, but only for a moment, it’s a moment, a second, just a step, a step from the temporary to the eternal.” We will also hear in the liturgical texts that for those who believe in God, life is not taken away, only changed. And the holy apostle Paul encourages us: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2, 9). Jesus says to his disciples: “And the way I am going, you know” (Jn 14, 4). In the Easter season, we should remember the strengthening of the Holy Spirit in faith. Today’s Gospel text wants to remind us to prepare for the feast of the Sending of the Holy Spirit. In the early times among Christians, the power of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit manifested themselves more visibly. This does not mean

The words of the Lord Jesus do not lose their relevance and meaning today and until the end of the world. It is up to us to cooperate with God’s grace. It started at our baptism. Through baptism, we incorporated ourselves into Christ and became members of the Church, and accepted the role of the general priesthood. We recognize a dual priesthood. The first is baptismal, when by accepting the sacrament of baptism we participate in spiritual goods. The second priesthood is sacramental, that is, the sacrament of priesthood. One cannot exist without the other. Each has its role and mission. Apostle Philip was overcome by reproach. Today, Jesus wants to show us his love even more. 

But who among you will be willing will be your servant.Matthew 20:26
A leader’s generous vision is serving others – family, customers, colleagues, the country, and humanity. This noble ambition to do is one of the fruits of the wonderful the virtue of humility. Since humility is often misunderstood, in the next section, we will try to clarify the nature of this virtue. “Humility,” says the German philosopher Josef Pieper, “is not primarily an attitude that concerns man’s relationship to man: it is man’s attitude before the face of God.  Humility is a religious virtue. It encourages man to acknowledge his condition, the condition of man as a God-created being. The idea that God is everything and man is nothing does not disturb the humble man. On the contrary, he is uplifted by the idea that God has chosen to call him into being.

The ancient Greeks highly esteemed the virtue of generosity. Still, they failed to grasp the true meaning of humility because they needed the concept of creatio ex nihilo – creation out of nothing. The mystery of creatio ex nihilo contributes to the Judeo-Christian tradition, although it can also be derived by natural reason. Humility enables man to relate to God; it is the habit of living in truth – the truth of one’s metaphysical disposition and virtues and weaknesses. Humility is an attitude that enables one to relate to other people. Through humility, leaders gain spontaneous respect for what is divine in every creature. This reverence encourages service to others. Leaders serve God present in people. If they act consistently, they develop a habit of service.
The opposite of humility is pride, the fruit of which is not life in truth, but a life of error; its fruit is not service but selfishness. I lose touch with reality if I fail to understand the fundamental truths about myself and others. Pride turns our inferiority into fiction, makes us blind to the beauty of service to others. People who succumb to this existential blindness need what the Greeks called metanoia – a true conversion of the heart. Metanoia (literally “beyond the mind”) pushes us beyond our ordinary thoughts and feelings, leading to a complete change of perspective, a new formulation of life’s goals, and a modification of life itself. Modern psychology calls this a “paradigm shift” or “breakthrough”. Neither of these terms, however, do not do justice to the magnitude of the transformation that is required to overcome the existential alienation caused by pride.

Humility and generosity
Generosity (striving of the spirit for great things) and humility (humility before God and what is Godly in others) go hand in hand
hand in hand and cannot be separated. Jesus Christ did not need to strive for greatness during his ministry on earth, as we perceive it from our human perspective. In Him, the but God met with man so that man could achieve lasting happiness. Nor did he need to humble himself before God and what is God in other people, but as it turned out, that was part of the fulfilment of his extraordinary mission for humanity: he took on the nature of a servant who died on the cross and offered his body to humanity as spiritual food. Unfortunately, humility has, in the meantime, taken on pejorative connotations. The humble person is often considered to be without ambition and nobility, undeserving of respect. Many Christians, by their behavior, promote a false understanding of humility. Some are too prone to give in to “fate” or the judgment of the wicked; they do not realize that deep respect for what is Godly in others is not the same as servility to authority. Some need more courage to strive for excellence in their personal and professional lives. They ignore Jesus’ call to “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

They pretend it is better to sin.

In modesty” then “in pride” to strive for perfection, as if sinfulness has nothing to do with pride and self-improvement has nothing to do with humility. This false humility is a refuge for the small-minded.
It is not a virtue. It is self-castration and grossly contrary to human dignity, See Phil 2:5-7. Mŕ5,48 . It is the kind of “humility” he had at
Nietzsche had in mind when he described Christian morality as the morality of enslaved people. People who are falsely humble have no interest in God, society, or even themselves. They fail to fulfil their
and shirk their responsibilities: “This false humility is convenience,” Escrivá writes. “In such humility, you give up rights that are really duties.” The humble person sees himself as he really is. He acknowledges his weaknesses and shortcomings but,  on the other hand, has his strengths and abilities. “To despise the gifts God has given us is not humility but ingratitude,” writes Thomas Aquinas.
The word humility comes from the word humus, which is essential to soil fertility. Indeed, humility is fertility, not sterility. “Humility and magnanimity,” says Pieper, “are not only are not mutually exclusive, but are, in fact, neighbours, even relatives…

 Some people know how to passionately talk about someone they know who means a lot to them and is significant in science, art, or sports. The result of such a committed witness is that we want to see and hear that person, or at least buy his book or some CD.

Jesus’ apostles witnessed that for their Teacher, the most important relationship was with God, whom he called his Father. He knew how to spend whole hours, even whole nights, in a deeply experienced conversation with the Father; he did everything in accordance with the Father’s will, and he drew strength from Him for deeds that exceeded natural possibilities. Jesus was aware of the complete harmony of his life with the Father, and therefore, at the end of his earthly life, he announces to his apostles that whoever sees Him, His life, and His deeds, can see in Him, as if in a mirror, what the Father is like. That would be something! The apostles will show interest at last in seeing Him to whom their Teacher had such a deep relationship, for whom He lived and under whose guidance He did such great and beautiful works.

Jesus responds to this concern of theirs with a surprising statement: “Whoever sees me sees the Father.” What does this visibility of the invisible God the Father consist of? In the conversation with the Samaritan woman, Jesus clearly said that “God is spirit” (Jn 4, 24). So, this similarity is not in the color of hair or eyes, the height of the figure, and the appearance of the face… So what? Again, Jesus himself makes it clear: “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me. If not for other reasons, at least for those works, believe!” So Jesus does everything in perfect unity of love with his Father. Therefore, through His works, through His attributes, we can perceive the attitudes, characteristics and manifestation of the heavenly Father himself. Jesus is the “face” of God throughout his life.

We also know from our human experience that a person’s face also says a lot about a person’s worth. On the one hand, appearances can be deceiving. Someone has a pretty and nice look, but in reality it’s just a deceptive facade, behind which an evil inside often hides. And on the contrary, a person with an ordinary, unattractive face – yet, when we talk to him and get to know him, we are surprised by the goodness and nobility that radiates from him, which arouses our respect, admiration, and love for that person…

On the Shroud of Turin, we have preserved the image of Jesus’ tortured face, about which Isaiah’s words apply: “He has no form or beauty for us to look at him, and he has no appearance for us to desire him” (53, 2). And yet, when we think about the martyrdom of Jesus based on the Gospel, when we notice His attitudes and expressions – how he asks for forgiveness for his tormentors from the cross, as he promises paradise to the penitent criminal, as he surrenders his soul into the Father’s hands – so it must arouse admiration, respect and grateful love in us. From that tortured body and disfigured face radiates the beauty and glory of God himself. This was also felt by the centurion under the cross, who responded to Jesus’ death by exclaiming full of admiration: “This man was truly the Son of God” (Mk 15.39).

This is how the Apostle Paul understood the meaning of his action – also the one we heard about in today’s excerpt from the Acts of the Apostles: “We do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ, the Lord…For God, who said: “Let light shine out of darkness,” also shone in our hearts for the illumination of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor 4, 6-6).

But why was – and still is – such a different reaction of people to the mediation of God’s glory, which shines from the “face” of Jesus Christ, that is, from His life? Why do some see this glory of God and are happy about it – while others consider the fact that Jesus should be God’s image an insult, a blasphemy against God?

We have the answer in a passage from the Acts of the Apostles: “all who were predestined to eternal life believed.” This is something similar to artistic talent. Michelangelo saw a beautiful sculpture in a block of stone, while it was just a shapeless boulder for others. The ability to see by faith is primarily a gift of God. We cannot understand who gets it and why. However, it is certain that God wants to give the grace of faith to everyone. If someone doesn’t get this ability to see God in the face of Christ, it may have been caused by himself to a large extent, the environment, upbringing, may have deformed him, maybe he doesn’t have this gift now, but there is hope that God will give it to him in the future…

It is, therefore, suitable to use what Jesus assures us at the end of today’s Gospel: “I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask for something in my name, I will do it.”

So let’s ask our risen Lord to ask the Father for the gift of the light of faith for us, for everyone we care about, and for the people of our time, so that we can experience the joy of God’s goodness and beauty radiating from His “face” – and that by following Him we too become people whose lives radiate at least something of God’s presence, beauty, and goodness into our world.

Jesus did not deny the need for bread. He multiplied the loaves twice and fed the hungry multitudes. But he didn’t stop there. He wanted people to understand the meaning of the Eucharist. What is the Eucharist? This is the actual body and blood of the Lord Jesus. Why it is essential to receive the Lord Jesus. Of course, the point here is to embrace the teachings of Jesus and try to follow Him. If we follow Jesus, we will also have the right attitude toward material values. It is undeniable that in today’s world, many people live in poverty, literally starving, while in other countries tons of food is being thrown away, and people are overeating. Selfishness, the desire for profit, is to blame. How many times has it happened that, to keep prices down, food has been destroyed instead? Only Christ is able to change a man. The desire for material things must not exceed its measure. It depends on what prevails in our life. Is it love, or is it selfishness? If egoism prevails, then we think only of ourselves and do not care about the fate of other people. In the former socialist countries, after the regime change and privatization, people got factories. But many of these factories went bankrupt. Why, because the new owners, squandered the property. Why? Because they had no peace in their material desires. And worse, hundreds of people lost their jobs and thus the opportunity to earn their bread. Therefore, if we want to eradicate world hunger, we must change people. But we cannot change ourselves. Only Christ can change us. The question is whether we want to change. There are huge differences between people. It is the result of human egoism. If people reject Christ, it will end in disaster because negative human qualities will begin to manifest themselves. History has shown us this many times, but people have yet to learn their lesson. Our desires for material things mustn’t become a drug for us—finally, here are two statements of the Lord Jesus. The camel will sooner go through the eye of a needle than the rich man will get to heaven. And do not lay up for yourselves treasures which moths and rust will devour, but treasures which will endure to eternal life. And I’ll add one more. What does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world but harms his own soul?

Although today we do not feel more or less a lack of priestly vocations in particular, we hear voices from the Church that today there is a deficit of 300 thousand priestly vocations. There are dioceses, for example, in Bohemia, Litoměřice, Pilsen, and Budějovice, where a priest administers more than three or four parishes. 

Jesus said: “My sheep listen to my voice, I know them, and they follow me” (Jn 10:27). These are Familiar words. The image used by the Lord Jesus was well known and close to his listeners. Jesus gave this image a deep meaning. Thought. The sheep know, recognize the voice of their protector, and shepherd from other voices. They know that behind this voice is protection, help, safety, and a caring hand.Already in the Old Testament, the prophets speak about this topic. The prophet Ezekiel refers to the people as sheep about the shepherd who cares for them. It is not an insult to the people that they would be compared to an unreasonable herd. The shepherd is understood as the expected Messiah. Ezekiel points out that the Messiah is to be a descendant of David (cf. Ezekiel 34, 23-26). He talks about the protection and safety that the sheep will receive from the shepherd, that is, the faithful from the Messiah. The prophet Jeremiah predicts that the Messiah will gather the scattered nation, the sheep, that is, the nation that suffered in captivity at that time, receives a prediction of freedom (cf. Jer 23:3). In the prophet Micah, we read that the Messiah will walk at the head of his people and open the gates of captivity for them (cf. Micah 2:12).

The idea of ​​the shepherd, the sheep, the shepherd again and again becomes current and timely, and those who accept it and believe in its power do not become a little herd or an unnecessary shepherd, but the opposite. To belong to God, to be more with God, to give oneself completely and completely to Him, to fulfill God’s will specially, to dedicate one’s life on earth to God, is the answer to the call, the address that God gives as a gift to man. Not everyone can meet the criteria to be a shepherd. We understand a vocation as a gift that a person must receive, cooperate with it, and be aware that he did not receive it only for himself, but as a shepherd he takes responsibility for the brothers and sisters entrusted to him. Vocation is a gift. It cannot be bought. God is the giver. It is the secret of his love for man. He often calls those who least expect it. We are all responsible for future occupations. There is often a lot of mystery surrounding the profession. It is necessary, even today, to pay attention to future professions. The number of children in families is decreasing; thus, the number of jobs is also decreasing. Consumer society seduces those who have felt the call. Young people are threatened during childhood and adolescence. Morale is falling. Resistance to spiritual things is increasing.

Today, let’s ask Jesus, the “Good Shepherd, ” for these great blessings.

Apostle of Nations – St. Paul wrote: “He who does not want to work, let him not eat” (2 Thessal 3,10). It is known that Indian sages forbade boys to eat when they did nothing for themselves or their parents. The Spartans had extraordinary judgments against lazy people. A lazy person was first reprimanded. Later he was caned. After the third reprimand, if he didn’t improve, he was sent into exile. Old Cato in Rome used to have applicants for Roman citizenship look at their hands to see if they were calloused or worked. No, we don’t talk about laziness, but on the contrary, about the need to work also in the field of faith, to work on one’s sanctification, improvement and acquisition of new virtues and merits.

The month of May is the month of the Virgin Mary. Since the Middle Ages, the Church has been praying the litanies to the Virgin Mary this month, which we call the Loreto litanies after the well-known Italian Marian pilgrimage site of Loreto. Even though centuries have passed and many of the titles and epithets we give to the Virgin Mary have lost their timeliness, and especially young people no longer understand them, or they seem out of date, we still want to pay more attention to them for our benefit.

On the first of May, Pope Pius XII. in 1956 declared St. Jozef, a worker. From IV. century we meet with the veneration of St. Joseph was not recorded in a single word, sentence in the Gospels, what he would have said. However, we know that he was a caring partner of the Virgin Mary, a husband before the world, and a true foster father to the child Jesus. After the annunciation, when the angel told him not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife (cf. Mt 1:20), he takes upon himself the beautiful mission of working for Jesus here on earth, thus proving his faithfulness to God in quiet work.

In the synagogue, Lord Jesus told his countrymen: “A prophet is honored everywhere, except in his homeland and in his house” (Mt 13:57). Despising someone hurts and offends. Jesus tries to be the first to prove his mission to his fellow citizens, that he is prophesied and the expected Messiah. He will not convince them with his words or deeds. They look at him only with natural eyes, and that is why the evangelist Matthew remarked: “And because of their unbelief, he did not do many miracles there” (Mt 13:58). We know that the Lord Jesus is very grateful to the mother and foster father for the good deeds they have shown. Their intercession in the kingdom of God is great. That is why the Church has been paying attention to the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. We do not bow to them, but in many devotions we turn to them for intercession with the Lord Jesus. Yes, we also pray directly to the Lord Jesus, but we also use this possibility and desire our work through them, turn your activity into a reward from the Lord Jesus. We have many proofs that we are not left without graces when we invoke the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph for help and protection. So we realize that it pays to pray, beg, that is, to work on our sanctification, obtaining graces for our life here on earth and through these saints.

The example of the Virgin Mary does not lose its meaning and value even today, in the age of advanced civilization. During May, we used to decorate pictures, statues, altars of the Virgin Mary with spring flowers and visit Marian pilgrimage sites and our churches in more significant numbers and more often. In this month, we pay special attention to the Litany of Loreto, where we say fifty times various attributes and titles of the Virgin Mary, thus paying her respect and at the same time working on our sanctification.

We too, want to notice the individual titles, think about them, explain them to ourselves, maybe speaking little today, but the same effective meaning when we follow her in her humility and humiliation. When we stand at the beginning of these reflections, it is like the desire of a little girl who wants to make a flower for her mother from the first spring flowers. The little girl feels joy in this activity. She is tireless in picking flowers. and when he puts flower to flower, he thinks of his mother, to whom he wants to give a flower out of love. The little girl knows that she will make her mother very happy. What can such a child give his mother more beautiful? After all, his mother is only waiting for this. The little girl cannot and cannot provide her with anything more. Our activity is also similar to a little girl. After all, we feel that we are sons and daughters of the Virgin Mary. The Lord Jesus reminded us of this on the cross: “Behold your mother” (Jn 19:27). In this month, when nature revives after the winter months, it’s as if we too feel the need to notice our heavenly Mother in this Easter season, in this most beautiful month for many. That’s why we want to willingly offer our hearts in every consideration. We realize that to the Virgin Mary, we cannot add anything to her glory, which she received for her faithfulness from her Son. The Virgin Mary already has the highest degree of glory, a reward from the Lord Jesus. Despite this knowledge, our voluntary participation in her devotions, prayer and meditations at the Litany of Loreto manifests our active love for the Virgin Mary. we know she likes such an activity and appropriately asks us for blessings, graces from her Son and everything necessary for us and those we will think of. When we fulfill this commitment, we too will surely receive the reward that the Lord Jesus gave to his mother and his foster father – St. to Joseph.

We don’t want to have our hands folded and wait. We know that even heaven is conquered by violence and only violent people can take it. Our violence, our increased reverence for the Virgin Mary, and our more frequent prayers and reflections on her life will be rewarded. We believe that her love will manifest even more in our lives.

We can hear the mathematical lesson. We understand the words, but we can’t understand it. It happens that after the explanation, the teacher asks the pupils if they have understood the reason. Most of the time, the pupils answer yes. Then, when the teacher gives the pupils an example, they have to practically prove whether they have understood the explanation correctly. Many times it turns out that many pupils have yet to understand the explanation or have misunderstood it. Many times this was also the case when the Lord Jesus was teaching. Of course, He did not teach mathematics, but spiritual things. He was teaching about eternal life, the salvation of the soul. Many times people did not understand these words. For example, they talked about suffering, dying, and rising from the dead. We need the help of the Holy Spirit to understand Jesus’ teachings. There is a difference between mathematics and the teachings of Jesus. Math can be understood by reason. Of course, not everyone can understand, at least the higher mathematics, by reason. Not all are able to pass a math exam at university. To understand what Jesus taught, we require our reason and our faith. Faith transcends our reason. Faith is not against reason, but it is beyond our reason. Sometimes people will say. I only believe what I can understand, what I can see. This attitude is wrong. Imagine if we told a person. Who lived 2000 years ago that people who are 10 thousand miles apart will be able to talk to each other, see each other as if they were quite crazy about each other. A person who lived 2000 years ago would say. I don’t believe that, that’s not possible. And yet it is possible. Today unbelieving people say, no heaven, and eternal life does not exist. There is only what I can see, feel. These people are called materialists. How much they are mistaken. We cannot see or feel many things that any measuring instrument cannot detect, yet these things and realities exist. Yes, some people say. I only believe what I see. There are people who have visited a miracle, and yet they remain unbelievers—and one more thing. Many times we believe what others tell us too readily and when someone tells us about believing in God for eternal life, we reject it. Judge for yourself if such an attitude is correct.

Jesus said, “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.” When his disciples heard this, many said, “This is hard talk! Who can listen to this?!” Jesus knew for himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, and he asked them: “Does this offend you? And what will happen when you see the Son of man appear where he was before? The spirit gives life, the flesh avails nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are Spirit and Life. But some of you do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe and would betray him. And he said: “That is why I said to you: No one can come to me unless the Father gives him.” Then many of his disciples left him and did not walk with him anymore. Jesus said to the Twelve: “You also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him: “Lord, and to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. And we have believed and recognized that you are the Holy One of God.”

Freedom. To encourage a free and responsible decision in life

When we think about our life, life often puts us in a situation where we have to make a free choice. It will only depend on us how we decide. God gave us freedom; he will not limit us in its exercise.

Jesus asks the apostles the question: “Do you also want to leave” (Jn 6:67)? He leaves everything to the free decision of the apostles. After the appearance of Christ in the Capernaum synagogue, where he announced the institution of the Eucharist, many disciples left the Teacher because of his words about the Eucharistic mystery they found it difficult to accept. “It is hard speech! Who can listen to it” (Jn 6:60)?! Only the most devoted remained with Jesus, and the Lord is now waiting for a reconfirmation of their friendship and unconditional trust in him. So he turns to those who faithfully followed him daily and asks them: “Do you also want to go away?” And Peter answers in the name of all: “Lord, and to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. And we have believed and recognized that you are the Holy One of God” (Jn 6:68-69). And the apostles said yes once more.

Let’s ask ourselves the question: What would the apostles be without Jesus? Where would their steps lead? Who would fulfill the desires of their hearts?
Life without Christ, as it was then, is meaningless now.

But our freedom is not only for us to wander aimlessly along the road, from one side to the other. It serves us to focus on a specific goal – on Christ. Then we will discover with astonishment that joyful dimension of freedom that chooses Jesus and everything that brings us closer to him and rejects what distances us from him. But, freedom is not enough by itself; it needs a guide – the North Star. The pole of our life, marking the direction of our steps at every moment is the Lord, because without him, to whom would we go? How would we fill our short days that God gave us? What is even worse without it?

Many people mean by freedom so much as being carried away by their passions and instinctive appetites of the moment. These people basically forget that freedom is indeed an absolute and fundamental human right, but a possible choice of evil does not characterize it but by the possibility of responsible action of good, which we recognize and desire as such. A person with a double understanding of freedom will reject any truth that presents a valid and binding goal for all humanity, because it will seem an enemy of his own freedom. In the Holy Scriptures, the basic thing on which the entire dignity of the human person rests is repeated over and over again: God created man as a free being. It follows that man is free. And where there is talk of freedom, there must also be options – at least two to choose from. God will never take away this freedom from man. “NEVER” This is the foundation that makes a person human. This is the definition of a person. And so each of us is in a state where we have to think about what to do and what not to do. Our responsibility for free depends on how we decide.