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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: \u201cDoes this offend you?\u00a0And what will happen when you see the Son of man appear where he was before?\u00a0The spirit gives life, the flesh avails nothing.\u00a0The 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.\u00a0Jesus 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.”<\/span><\/h2>\n

Freedom.\u00a0To encourage a free and responsible decision in life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When we think about our life, life often puts us in a situation where we have to make a free choice.\u00a0It will only depend on us how we decide.\u00a0God gave us freedom; he will not limit us in its exercise.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0So 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. <\/span>And we have believed and recognized that you are the Holy One of God”<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(Jn 6:68-69).\u00a0And the apostles said yes once more.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Let’s ask ourselves the question: What would the apostles be without Jesus? Where would their steps lead?\u00a0Who would fulfill the desires of their hearts?<\/span>
\nLife without Christ, as it was then, is meaningless now.<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Many people mean by freedom so much as being carried away by their passions and instinctive appetites of the moment.\u00a0These 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:\u00a0<\/span>God created man as a free being. It<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0follows that man is free.\u00a0And where there is talk of freedom, there must also be options – at least two to choose from.\u00a0God will never take away this freedom from man.\u00a0“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<\/span>.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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