When we talk about freedom, we mostly mean bodily, racial, feminist and so on and we consider it absolutely vital in today’s society. The great problem that arises, however, is that we forget that people aren’t only bodies but that each of us also has a spirit. Like it or not, it’s patently obvious and can be demonstrated by the numerous forms of mental disturbances that we observe in people. According to the works of the holy Fathers of our Church, free people are those who do good, that is those who follow Christ, with all that that involves (frequent participation in divine worship, the sacraments and so on) and slaves are those who have chosen the passions, i.e. have rejected ...
