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Rather than cramping our freedom, the Christian moral code expands and elevates human freedom, enabling us to share in the infinite freedom of God, the freedom of self-giving love. This article can be found at my Substack newsletter, "Beauty-Goodness-Truth," or at Word on Fire.

One out of every five states in the U.S. now allows babies to be killed up to the point of birth, and more states seem poised to do the same. You can read this article at my Substack newsletter, "Beauty-Goodness-Truth," or at Word on Fire.

In the formulation of his own personal "system of salvation," John Keats has fallen victim to two perennial temptations to which we human beings are subject. You can read this article at my Substack newsletter, "Beauty-Goodness-Truth," or at Word on Fire.

Our finite freedom finds its ultimate fulfillment by entering into the infinite freedom of the divine dynamic of self-giving love.

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We’re all here to learn how to love. Life is a school of love. The things that happen to you in life are meant to help you learn how to love. The people who cross your path in life are meant to help you learn how to love, and you’re meant to help them learn how to love, too.

We’re all on a journey ad Deum, a journey back to God. It’s just that some of us don’t realize that yet, or have forgotten it, or else don’t want to believe it. But we are. We all came from God, and we’re all intended to return to God. Only in God will we find the ultimate happiness, freedom, purpose, and peace that we so desperately desire.

This article is an excerpt from my book, The Book of Love: Brief Meditations . The full article can be found at Catholic Exchange.

Image: The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus Teaching in the Temple, by Lodovico Mazzolino (Wikimedia Commons)

The path to our intended destination is the path of self-giving love, perfectly exemplified for us by Jesus in his sacrificial death on the cross.

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We want more than being able to break free from the limits that constrain us. We want to break out of finitude entirely, to find our way into the fullest possible life. We do indeed want “life without limits,” but what this desire really involves is our desire for the One who is, by definition, “life without limits”: God.

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One can argue that materialism, rather than religion, is the true "opiate of the masses" as it prevents people from seeing the world as it really is.

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It's important, even crucial, always to remind ourselves that the salvation of the world doesn't depend entirely on us.

Beauty can and will continue to help save the world, but at the most fundamental level, Beauty has already saved the world. Thank God for that!

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True and lasting peace has both a horizontal dimension (peace with our fellow human beings) and a vertical dimension (peace with God).

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