1. Freedom to Love
The Theology of the Body
Applied to Our Lives
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2. Table of Contents
A Brief Overview of the Theology of the Body
1. Sex and the Meaning of Existence
2. Understanding the Body as a “Theology”
3. God‟s Mystery & the Spousal Analogy
4. Unmasking the Counterfeits
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
1. What is Freedom
2. The Dependence of Freedom on Truth
3. How Do We Know the Truth?
4. The Freedom for Which Christ Set Us Free
5. The Holy Spirit is the Source of Freedom
Love as I Have Loved You
1. What is Love?
2. Chastity & the Integration of Love
3. Love & the “Unrepeatability” of the Person
Living the Redemption of Sexuality
1. Sex, Lies, & Redemption
2. The “Great Divorce”
3. Integration in Christ
4. Some Practical Points
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3. The Bouillon Cubes

4. True Freedom Serves the Good
2a. “There is no true freedom except in the service
of what is good…The choice to disobey and do evil
is an abuse of freedom and leads to the „slavery of
sin‟”
(CCC, n. 1733).
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5. Act Through Free Choice
1b. “Human dignity requires man to act through
conscious and free choice, as motivated and
prompted personally from within, and not through
blind internal impulse or merely external pressure.”
(GS, n. 17)
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6. True Freedom
quot;True freedom is liberation not from the external
constraint that calls me to good, but from the
internal constraint that hinders my choice of the
good.quot;
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7. The MOAB: Mother of All Bouillon Cubes
2c. “The body, and in fact, it alone, is capable of making
visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine. It was
created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the
mystery hidden since time immemorial in God, and thus to
be a sign of it” (TB, 76).
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8. Live Bold. Die Free.
I Want You

9. The Pillar of Truth
quot;Truth can only have meaning in a person's life, if
he freely embraces it.quot;
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10. The Necessity of Freedom
3a quot;God does not want to impose the good,
but wants free beingsquot; CCC 2847.
Thus, the quot;right to the exercise of freedom,
especially in moral and religious matters, is
an inalienable requirement of the dignity of
the human person.quot; CCC 1738
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11. The Risk of Freedom
quot;The drama of life is not in
the safety of the boat. The
drama of life is out amidst
the wind and the waves,
with our eyes fixed on
Christ.quot;
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12. Freedom from the Law
quot;Do not think that I have come
to abolish the law. I have not
come to abolish the law; I have
come to fulfill the law.quot; –Matthew
5:17
quot;I would not have known what
sin was, if it weren't for the
law.quot; -Rom 7:7
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13. For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
quot;For freedom Christ has
set us free; stand fast
therefore, and do not
submit again to the yoke
of slavery.. For you were
called to freedom.. only do
not use your freedom as
an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love, be
servants of one another.quot;
-Gal 5:1,13
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14. For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
quot;But, if you think that the way to avoid sin is to get
rid of your freedom, in the same stroke you have
eradicated your possibility of love.quot;
Not Bound to Lust
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15. Freedom’s Full Potential
quot;For freedom Christ has set
us free. Do not, again, take
up a yolk of slavery.quot;
Crucifixion is preferable to
slavery to lust.
Apples
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16. Do Not Be Confused
Freedom vs. License
You KNOW when you are free.
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17. The Actuals of Grace
quot;Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.quot;
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18. Live Bold. Die Free.
quot;Love God and do whatever you want.quot; - St. Augustine
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19. Pope John Paul the Great
pray for us
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