1. FREEDOM

2. The divine & spiritual power of intellect & will to know & choose…

3. …to act or not…(commission or omission)

4. like this or like that…

5. in order to do good deliberately…

6. & to become a whole holy, blissed, happy person,with God’s Grace…

7. eternallyin lovein Heavenwith God.

8. But all freedoms are not equally blissful…

9. Liberty is freedom

10. Liberty is the freedomof external movement, freeing us from physicalrestraintorviolence

11. Liberty may coexist with the internal alienations of folly, ignorance or overwhelming passions which limit our freedom

12. Self-determinationis freedom

13. Self-determination is the freedomof internal choiceordeliberation,freeing us from ignoranceandpassion,the freedom of indifference

14. Self-determination may coexist with the alienation of sin which leads to misery and death

15. To be alienated is to be submitted to a power that harms our dignity, which is anything that is not God

16. Virtueis freedom

17. Cardinal and theological virtues are freedom

18. Virtue is the perfect power, ‘by the aid of God's grace’ to act or not, like this or like that, always & well ‘in the service of what is good’ ‘and [to] come freely to utter and blissful perfection’.

19. Virtue is the freedomoftruelove, freeing us fromsin & death,the highest form of freedom.