{"id":25123,"date":"2009-11-30T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/god-gives-us-a-role-in-what-ha\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:47:50","slug":"god-gives-us-a-role-in-what-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/god-gives-us-a-role-in-what-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"God gives us a role in what happens in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; \">&#8220;Freedom is to acknowledge that God is all&#8230;. It is complete self-fulfillment &#8230; the possibility to reach and confront one&#8217;s destiny&#8221; (Giussani). Pope John Paul II reminded us that &#8220;communion with the crucified and risen Lord is the never-ending source from which the Church draws unceasingly in order to live in freedom.&#8221; Freedom means adhering to the risen Lord with the full force of our full-blown faith. As Cardinal Christoph Sch&ouml;nborn writes, &#8220;To allow oneself to be led by God, to abandon oneself to his direction, is the highest expression of our freedom.&#8221; For &#8220;God willed that man should be left in the hand of his own counsel so that he might&#8230;freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him&#8221; (<em>CCC&nbsp;<\/em>1730).<\/span> <\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#232323\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#232323\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Fr Peter J. Cameron, OP<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#232323\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><i>Magnificat<\/i> April 2002<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Freedom is to acknowledge that God is all&#8230;. It is complete self-fulfillment &#8230; the possibility to reach and confront one&#8217;s destiny&#8221; (Giussani). Pope John Paul II reminded us that &#8220;communion with the crucified and risen Lord is the never-ending source from which the Church draws unceasingly in order to live in freedom.&#8221; Freedom means adhering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/11\/god-gives-us-a-role-in-what-ha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God gives us a role in what happens in life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}