The three powers of my soul are my memory, my understanding, and my will.
God has given every human soul spiritual faculties that allow us to know Him and respond to Him freely. Memory allows us to retain knowledge and reflect on our experiences. Understanding enables us to reason, learn truth, and contemplate God. Will gives us the ability to make choices and direct our actions toward what we believe to be good. These powers work together constantly in daily life. We remember, we understand, and then we choose. Because of original sin, these faculties can be weakened or misused, but they remain gifts from God that can be strengthened through grace. By using our memory to recall Gods blessings, our understanding to learn His truth, and our will to choose what is right, we grow in holiness and become more fully the people God created us to be.
The human person participates in the light and power of the divine Spirit. By reason he is capable of understanding the order of things established by the Creator. By free will he is capable of directing himself toward his true good. Freedom is the power to act or not to act, and so to perform deliberate actions on ones own responsibility.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
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