Humble handmaiden of the Lord, the Virgin is the model of the spiritual person, totally free because she is immaculate, immune to sin, and completely holy, dedicated to the service of God and neighbor.

-Angelus Address, 1 July 2007

Christian freedom, therefore, is completely different from arbitrariness; it is following Christ in the gift of self, right up to the sacrifice on the cross.

-Angelus Address, 1 July 2007

He [Jesus] did not live his freedom, however, as license or dominion. He lived it as service. In this way he "filled" with content a freedom that would have otherwise remained an"empty" possibility to do or not do something. As the life itself of man, freedom takes its meaning from love. Who is more free? The one who holds onto all possibilities for fear of of losing them, or the one who "resolutely" gives himself in service and thus finds himself full of life because of the love that he has given and received?

-Angelus Address, 1 July 2007