The Sabbath

The Sunday obligation for all the faithful [is] a wellspring of authentic freedom enabling them to live each day in accordance with what they celebrated on "the Lord's Day." The life of faith is endangered when we lose the desire to share in the celebration of the Eucharist and its commemoration of the paschal victory. Participating in the Sunday liturgical assembly with all our brothers and sisters, with whom we form one body in Jesus Christ, is demanded by our Christian conscience and at the same time it forms that conscience. To lose a sense of Sunday as the Lord's Day, a day to be sanctified, is symptomatic of the loss of an authentic sense of Christian freedom, the freedom of the children of God . . . Sunday thus appears as the primordial holy day, when all believers, wherever they are found, can become heralds and guardians of the true meaning of time. It gives rise to the Christian meaning of life and a new way of experiencing time, relationships, work, life, and death. On the Lord's Day, then, it is fitting that Church groups should organize, around Sunday Mass, the activities of the Christian community: social gatherings, programs for the faith formation of children, young people and adults, pilgrimages, charitable works, and different moments of prayer. For the sake of these important values... we need to remember that it is Sunday itself that is meant to be kept holy, lest it end up as a day "empty of God."

--Pope Benedict XVI

The Law of the Spirit

"The hour of the law’s fulfillment, is when the law reaches its maturity when it becomes the law of the Spirit. Moving forward on this road is somewhat risky, but it is the only road to maturity, to leave behind the times in which we are not mature. Part of the law’s journey to maturity, which comes with preaching Jesus, always involves fear; fear of the freedom that the Spirit gives us. The law of the Spirit makes us free! This freedom frightens us a little, because we are afraid we will confuse the freedom of the Spirit with human freedom. "
--Pope Francis, Homily on June 12, 2013
http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-at-mass-true-progress-is-in-trusting-the-spir

A Mystic Being, G.K. Chesterton

Man is a mystic being who cannot do what is expected of him; but can only do more than is expected of him. He can die in torments in the trenches for a rag on a pole; but he cannot keep his temper for twenty-four hours. ~ G. K. Chesterton

Freedom, Dwight Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom.

— Dwight Eisenhower