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>>24866109
Cease being ruled over by your passions, appetites, and circumstance; cease a servant of the flesh and live for the spirit; cease being a slave to sin and seek the unspeakable and unfathomable glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Fasting, vigils, study, the Hours, meditation, nepsis, and above all the Holy Mysteries and prayer without ceasing are your allies. The demons can be overcome. Call upon the Blessed Virgin and Celestial Hosts to pray for you unceasingly, as you yourself pray, and treat your body as its true nature is, an image of the immortal God and temple of the Holy Spirit.

In the end, theosis is the only good worth pursuing.
>>24688508
Freedom isn't about our acts being undetermined; it is about our relative capacity for self-determination and self-governance.

Second, just as being is most properly predicated of substance, for there is never "nothing at all moving quickly" or "nothing in particular that is heavy," but always something moving or heavy, so too is freedom most properly said of men, not their individual acts. The same is true of virtue and goodness. The freedom and virtue of acts is parasitic on that of the person as an organic whole.
>>24686848
:-)