Freedom and Love

Christ is the perfect realization of the revealed law: in Him it has been perfectly accomplished. We who are his disciples cannot fail to follow him in this obedience. It is through this obedience that our freedom finds its true and full realization. The law of God, in fact, do not attenuate and do not eliminate the freedom of man. On the contrary, it guarantees and promotes it. In the light of this word of God, we must guard against making our own all those cultural currents that place at their center a supposed conflict between human freedom and moral law.

The true autonomy of man consists in obedience to God holy Law: this frees us from everything that enslaves us. Freedom of man and the law of God help each other; in this unity lies the greatness of our person. The unity of 2 wills or hearts, man’s and God’s, is love. To better explain what it means to fulfill the Law, we read the first verse of today’s Gospel, in which Jesus says:

“Do not believe that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets:

I have not come to abolish, but to give full fulfillment” (Mt 5:17).

The literal translation of this sentence from the original Greek, is:

“Do not think that I have come to dissolve the Law or the Prophets;

I have not come to dissolve, but to fill”.

This makes us understand that Jesus, the Messiah;

is the one who makes the law, filling it with love.

6th Sunday Ordinary Tima year A