The following is an excerpt from the July 8, 2010, issue of The Wanderer:
He [Pope Benedict XVI] called the affirmative response to God's call "one of the most beautiful experiences that one has in the Church" in which one sees "the Lord's action in people's lives, touches it with one's hand; experiences that God is not an abstract entity, but a Reality so great and powerful that He can fill man's heart in a super-abundant way. He is a Person who is alive and near, who loves us and asks us to love Him."
The Pontiff continued: "Whoever renounces everything, even himself, to follow Jesus, enters into a new dimension of freedom that St. Paul defines as "walking according to the Spirit.'
" 'Christ has freed us for freedom!' the Apostle writes, and explains that this new form of freedom acquired for us by Christ consists in being 'in the service of each other.'
"Freedom and love coincide! Obeying one's own egoism, on the contrary, leads to rivalry and conflict."
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