{"id":18577,"date":"2017-06-07T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18577"},"modified":"2017-05-16T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T11:28:11","slug":"18577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/06\/07\/18577\/","title":{"rendered":"God Wants Us to Be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Missa de renova\u00e7\u00e3o do compromisso dos membros da Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cancaonova\/32302848360\/in\/album-72157676331833253\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/571\/32302848360_03f1b7d486_z.jpg\" alt=\"Missa de renova\u00e7\u00e3o do compromisso dos membros da Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><strong>The Lord created us to be free men and women<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Never forget that blindly to follow the impulse of our emotions often means we become slaves to our passions&#8221; (John Paul II).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Lord created us to be free men and women. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We can no longer let us enslave by anyone or anything. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Many people adopt a false concept of freedom and live from it, a life totally demented and pointless. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Jesus is a friend. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">He points to lofty goals; <\/span><span lang=\"en\">asking us to come out of ourselves in order to go his way, trusting him with all our lives. <\/span><span lang=\"en\"><em>&#8220;Those who lose their life for my sake and the Gospel&#8217;s will save it&#8221; (mark 8.35).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This proposal may seem difficult and even scary, but what&#8217;s best: resigning ourselves to a life without ideals, a world made in our image and likeness? Or to seek generously the truth, goodness, justice, working for a world that reflects the beauty of God, that still face difficulties? T<\/span><span lang=\"en\">he decision falls to us, and every decision carries a consequence. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">God created us to do great and noble projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The more we put at His disposal, the more we will discover the true meaning of our life. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Let us pray: Holy Spirit, today I want to live for Jesus. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I give you my mind, my emotions, my will, my intellect, my lips, my mouth, my ears, my eyes, everything I have and that I am for the glory of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Jesus, I trust in you!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en\">Luzia Santiago<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en\">Co-founder of the community\u00a0Can\u00e7ao Nova<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luziasantiago.cancaonova.com\/mensagem\/deus-nos-quer-livres\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord created us to be free men and women &#8220;Never forget that blindly to follow the impulse of our emotions often means we become slaves to our passions&#8221; (John Paul II). The Lord created us to be free men&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10351],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18580,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18577\/revisions\/18580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}