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he freedom ‘for which Christ freed
us’ – there is no other freedom—is no individualistic freedom, since this
freedom consists in service to one’s neighbor: ‘serve one another in love’. It
is no libertine freedom, for sensual lusts directly contradict the freedom that
the guiding Spirit of Christ grants us. That man has to struggle against
himself and his lusts in order to receive true freedom is not denial of his
having been given freedom, for Christ himself had to struggle during his
temptations. In order to be free one must overcome the contradictions within
himself. The freedom of Christ is to constantly do the will of the Father. To
follow him in that makes one truly free. The freedom to which Christ calls us
is his own freedom. In that freedom we receive a share in God’s inner,
Trinitarian, absolute freedom. – Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar
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