SPONSA RECIS - A SPIRITUAL REVIEW FOR SIS TERS - February 1965 - Volume 36 Number 6

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Sponsa Recis presents a February 1965 spiritual review focused on liberation, love, and the Christian understanding of freedom. The text traces freedom’s appeal across history, then contrasts political or military liberators with Jesus as the true emancipator. It describes Christ’s invitation to renounce burdens, follow freely, and challenges authority and fear. Baptism and grace are framed as the pathway to a life of spiritual liberty, culminating in a discussion of whether religious life visibly reflects this freedom.

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Liberty and Love

# PONSA RECIS THE MAN WHOIS REBORN ANDRISES AGAININ CHRIST OF HIS BEING. # SPONSA RECIS A SPIRITUAL REVIEW FOR SIS TERS FEBRUARY 1965VOLUME 36NUMBER 6 Liberty and Love 171RORY WELCH,O.CARM. Coadjutors in the Life of the Church 181WILLIAM F.HOGAN,C.S.C. Poem 187SISTER MARY JONATHAN,O.P. Friendships in the Novitiate 188 A.DURAND Book Reviews 193 NIHIL OBSTAT:Reinold Theisen,O.S.B.,Censor deput.IMPRIMATUR:Peter W.Bartholome,D.D.,Episc.Sancti Clodoaldi. Published monthly by monks of Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota.Rev.Ronald Roloff,O.S.B.,Editor;Rev.Myron Kasprick,O.S.B.,ManagingEditor;Rev.Raymond Roseliep,Poetry Editor.Advisory Board:Rev.KilianMcDonnell,O.S.B.,Sister Ritamary Bradley,C.H.M.,Sister M.Rose Emman-uella Brennan,S.N.J.M.,Sister M.Emmanuel Collins,O.S.F.,Mother MaryRobert Falls,O.S.U.,Sister M.Jean Frances Fiffe,O.P.,Sister M.JeremyHall,O.S.B.,Sister M.Jerome Keeler,O.S.B.,Sister M.Teresa Francis McDade, B.V.M.,Sister Mary Virginia Micka,C.S.J.,Sister M.Charles BorromeoMuckerhirn,C.S.C.,Sister Mary Emil Penet,I.H.M.,Sister Mary James Walsh,S.N.D.,Sister Annette Walters,C.S.J.,Mother Mary Florence Wolff,S.L.,Sister M.Francine Zeller,O.S.F. Address all correspondence except poetry to Sponsa Regis,Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota 56321 (Checks payable to Sponsa Regis.)Poetryshould be sent to Rev.Raymond Roseliep,Loras College,Dubuque,Iowa 52003.1 year $2.50;2 years $4.00;single copy 25 cents.Sterling area(exceptAustralia):1 year 18s;2 years 29s;single copy 1s 11d.Australia:1 year 23s;2 years 37s;single copy 2s 3d.Agent for India:Asian Trading Corporation,Post Box No.1505,Bombay-1.Indexed in the Catholic Periodical Index.Printed by Sentinel Publishing Company,413 East Saint Germain Street,Saint Cloud,Minnesota.Second class postage paid at Saint Cloud,Minnesota.(Do not send mail to this address.) ## Liberty and Love Freedom is a desired good which has stirred men in every age,from the Machabean revolutionaries to the Negro demonstratorsin the United States.Where it is present,men jealously watchand protect it;where it is absent,no effort,even death,is con-sidered too much to possess it.Countries take pride in theirindependence,peoples relish freedom,individuals constantly demandfreedom.Without it,a man is not a man. Those particular men who,through a happy combination oftalents,providence,and the propitious moment have led a peopleout of some type of oppression or bondage to a new existence asfree,independent people,are the men most admired and remem-bered.It is the spirit of such men as Moses,Judas Machabeus,Daniel O'Connell,Simon Bolivar,Abraham Lincoln or Martin LutherKing which a people tries to keep alive.The laws followed by apeople are followed only because they preserve a spirit,not becausea law is to be followed.When this spirit is not present,when theleader’s influence is gone,laws lose their meaning and a people dies. The greatest liberator of all time,the one who emancipatedthe largest number of people,was not a military leader or a politicalfigure.He was the Son of God,a man.His vision of mankindinfinitely surpassed the vision of the wisest leader who ever gavethought to man's journey on earth.In him was the spirit of man,the true destiny of peoples.Any hope that ever burned in a man,any ideal that ever seized him,any dream that inspired him foundits reason in this Son of Man,and its support on his shoulders.He alone understood the yearnings of man,yearnings the sourceof which and the outcome of which man himself could not reallyfathom.He understood the nature that cried in man,and he knewwhat it was that called this nature. Man knew He would come on this earth,and he came.Manwatched.A life was being lived,by a child,then by a boy,thenby an adult,and always he was God.Words used over and overfor centuries finally seemed to have meaning when they came from him.Roads were walked by him and for the first time the roadsseemed to go somewhere.He stopped on hi

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What does the article say freedom is and why it matters to people?

Freedom is described as a desired good that stirs people in every age. It is treated as essential to human dignity—without it, a man is not a man.

Who is presented as the greatest liberator, and what is the basis of that liberation?

The greatest liberator is described as the Son of God, not a military or political leader. His vision and the spirit he brings are said to surpass all other leaders’ hopes and ideals.

How does the text connect baptism to freedom?

The article states that man dies in Baptism, dying to a self chained by original sin. With faith and love, the believer begins to live the life of a free man in grace and union with the Trinity.

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