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[wcatradio]

Episode 1: David Hajduk on his book Healing the Culture and Family (July 18, 2022)

#catholic #catholicfaith #catholiclife #catholicmarriage #davidhajduk #healingthecultureandfamily #johnpaulii #kikilatimer #thecatholicbookworm #theologyofthebody

[onevoice4jesus]

I have been blessed to write several articles for @christiancatholicmedia and I'm happy to share my latest article published regarding the teaching of the Church on contraception. Hope y'all enjoy. http://bit.ly/2INekcq #christiancatholicmedia #contraception #catholic #churchteaching #intrinsicevil #life #love #article #sexualethics #catholicapologetics #babies #truth #tob #theologyofthebody #humanaevitae #popepaulxi #stjohnpaulii #thebody #stpopejohnpaulii #soul #humanperson #logic #reason #incarnate #bodysoulcomposite #oneflesh #2become1 #loveincarnate (at One Voice for Jesus Ministries) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3lYdfzlMv7/?igshid=a67kpw0hekwk

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[igate777]

#Godsword, #sounddoctrine, #theword, #eternaltruth, #spiritualdevelopment, #Godstruth #discipelship, #doctrine, #theologyofthebody, #apologetics, #kingdomdynamics, https://www.instagram.com/p/CL1J69FJxDF/?igshid=88mlvom6jfb0

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[beautifullysavedbygrace]

The human body, even in its brokenness, is still an icon of our call to love of total gift of self. . Jesus suffered so we can know how to suffer. Let us not waste our suffering. Our suffering is our call to the new evangelization. Our goal should be victorious in our suffering. . Let us remember that our suffering is our cross. And the cross is a powerful symbol of redemptive suffering. #TOBVirtualConference #TOBVC #TheologyOfTheBody #suffering #cross #JPII https://www.instagram.com/p/CACk9neFz6k/?igshid=1hcbi01cm3jcr

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[proudcatholic1977]

Reposted from @catholicbryan Tis the season for engagements! If you recently got engaged, take the time to really contemplate what you are committing to and build the foundation for a life centered on God. @jasonevert #catholicmarriage #catholic #theologyofthebody https://www.instagram.com/p/B7DoPsVlYnF/?igshid=10pjvie0a38ph

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[sashasolmaya]

Sex is today's issue. The old teaches the new. The ancient guides the young. Experience takes us by the hand and shows us the right road. The ruins of the fallen empire are a warning to us: change or die. #endsexabuse #sacredsexuality #theologyofthebody #twobecomeone #montealban #Oaxaca #pyramids #mexico #unionoftheflesh #tantra #yoga #kundalini #procreation #inception #soulbirth #holymatrimony #consummation #makelove #puredesire #sexisgood (at Monte Albán)

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[sentinel130]

Christopher West #TheologyOfTheBody for Beginners

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[lisasargese]

Thanks to the gang at @newman_catholic for hosting a wonderful Testimony Tuesday! It was wonderful to share our story of the warm hospitality we received at the Turkish Cultural Center of NJ. Thanks to @amaroldan for the lovely, appreciative words, and openness. Everyone admired the artistry of the water-marbling ebru painting on display for our talk! #interfaith #intercultural #theologyofthebody #loveintheholybooks #proflisa (at Newman Catholic Campus Ministry at Montclair State)

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[jimmyrayn21]

SDYD forms for grab! Get it while it's still hot! #Sdyd2017 #sdyd #sibudiocesanyouthday #2017 #perfectlovedrivesoutfear #1john4:18 #tob #theologyofthebody #comeandsee #youth #revival #hot

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[wcatradio]

Episode 137: Cynthia Toolin-Wilson interviews Ivan Arthur on his book Saynt Lachmi (January 10, 2022)

#catholic #catholicfaith #catholiclife #catholicrealism #catholicsaint #cynthiatoolinwilson #india #ivanarthur #magicalrealism #nursing #sayntlachmi #theologyofthebody

[respectlifeperth-blog]

Happy Wednesday, all! ✨ #wisdomwednesday #love #happiness #life #respectlife #God #jesus #christ #christian #catholic #tob #theologyofthebody #popesaintjohnpaulii #jpii #jpiiweloveyou (at Respect Life Office)

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[sowingseedsandshootinghoops]

John Paul II and the Nature that Men and Women Share: The Theology of the Body

A note on the text: I used Michael Weldstein’s translation of Pope John Paul II’s Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body as published by Pauline Books and Media in 2006.

Pope John Paul 2 gave a series of lectures, over the course of four years, centered around what he called “The Theology of the Body”. Each section of this seminal project was focused on one Bible passage, and the one that I thought most interesting was the one that was focused around Matthew 19:3-8. I liked how he used that passage to talk about sexuality and the relationship between the sexes.

Before going any further, its probably best to quote this section of Matthew’s gospel in its entirety: 

Some Pharisees came to [Jesus] to test him and asked him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?’ And he answered them, ‘Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator created them male and female and said [that it is] for this reason [that] a man should leave his father and mother and unite with his wife and the two shall become one flesh? So it is that they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined let no man separate.’ They objected [to this, saying:] ‘Why then did Moses [allow the husband] to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?’ Jesus answered, ‘Because of the hardness of your heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wife, but from the beginning it was not this way (Mt 19:3-8).

Christianity has the unfortunate distinction of, at times, a more dualistic type of theology where the spirit is good and the body is bad. This is definitely not the type of theology that John Paul II adheres to. While most Christians agree that God created mankind to be good in both body and spirit, indeed God himself says that it was all “very good” after he created man, many believe that the incident with the Tree of Knowledge irrevocably changed things. That mankind was, in that moment, somehow, remade. That there was an “innocent” version of man that was in that moment replaced by the “sinful” version that we have today. The first thing that the Pope does is completely dismantle that way of thinking by pointing out that “Christ’s words [in the passage quoted above], which appeal to the ‘beginning’, allow us to find an essential continuity in man and link between the two different states or dimensions of the human being” (142). 

What he means is that the fact that Christ appeals to the “pre-historic” or “pre-fall” man in the way that he does shows us that the goodness that was in man “in the beginning” is still there. It’s just being covered up by more junk than it was at that time. The state of “original innocence” is still as much as a part of man now as it was back then. What this means for John Paul II, among other things, is that the body was created as a good thing and that it still is. The rules that applied back then, to Adam and Eve before the fall, still apply because that good nature that Adam and Eve were born with is still present in us. 

Having set the stage by bringing us “back to the beginning”, the Pope now goes on to talk about what Genesis can teach us about what it means to be human. Christ talks about God having created them as both male and female, and that the two will become one flesh. Which means that men and women have more in common than they might at first assume: they share a common human nature. When Adam is first created, one of the first things he realizes is that there are no other beings in the world like him. Although he does not really know what he is yet, he definitely knows what he is not: “The observation that he ‘is alone’ in the midst of the visible world and, in particular, among living beings has a negative meaning in his search inasmuch as it expresses [only] what [he] is not” (149). When Eve appears on the scene though everything changes immediately. Adam sees her and exclaims, “She is flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone” (Gen 2:23). He sees her and is able to immediately recognize and she and he are made up of the same “stuff”, that they have the same essence. This is despite all of the differences, including the physical ones, that are obviously there. In some strange sense, she becomes “another I” for him because he could not even recognize the type of nature that he himself had until he saw that same nature in her. It was only then that he was able to positively identify his nature. Prior to that he could only identify it in terms of “not being like the other animals” and being “alone” in the world.��

That also points to the reason why Adam and Eve felt no shame in each other’s presence despite the fact that they were naked. When they looked at each other what they saw was their common humanity being expressed in unique ways through their respective bodies. There was no need for shame because there was no form of objectification at work here. It is only after the fall that shame enters the picture. Most people think that the fact that shame does enter into the picture is a sign that that “original innocence” has been eradicated, but nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that shame only enters the pictures because that seed of “original innocence” is still there since “with shame, the human being manifests, ‘instinctively as it were, the need for affirmation and the acceptance of this ‘I’ according to its proper value” (173). Shames comes not as a replacement for that original goodness, but a defense mechanism that is designed to protect it. That goodness is still in there. The body is still a good and holy thing and it is through the body that man’s nature is revealed to himself. 

This then leads to what is, I think, one of the most beautiful sentences in the whole work because it puts the sexual differences between men and women into the proper context of the humanity that they share: “Before they were man and wife. . . man and woman came forth from the mystery of creation first of all as brother and sister in the same humanity” (200-201). We can see this being spelled out again later in Genesis because Adam’s reaction to Eve “being born” is the same as Eve’s reaction to Cain being born: “I have acquired a man from the Lord” (Gen 4:1). Now it is she who starts to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be human she recognizes the “humanity in the new man who is generated” (214). 

Now the question is how does this connect back to what Jesus said the Pharisees? Well the first thing is that Jesus acknowledges that what he is saying about marriage is very hard. The reason that Moses allowed them to divorce in the first place was because of how hard it was for them to remain married. But he also points to the beginning in a way that allows us to see that the rules that applied to Adam’s nature which was made before the fall, still applies to ours now. That the “pure” nature that Adam and Eve had, is still in us and needs to be protected and cultivated in some way. Now why is it so bad for people to get divorced? Well, on a very basic level Christ may be reminding his audience that women are just as “human” as men and that husbands should not treat their wives as if they are trash that can be simply thrown aside whenever it suites them. But beyond that, on a much deeper level, Adam and Eve reveal what it means to be human to each other. Adam doesn’t know what human nature is until he sees Eve, and Eve doesn’t fully recognize it either until she sees Cain. By sharing themselves, including and perhaps especially their bodies, with each other, the husband reveals to the wife something important about what it means to be human and visa versa. But this information can only be shared, or even obtained, through that open connection in which each gives of themselves to the other. They both exhibit a unique part of what it means to be human, and it is only by sharing in the side of humanity that is being presented by the other person that you yourself can become “more human”.  

#theologyofthebody #johnpaul2 #pope john paul ii #gospelofmatthew

[beautifullysavedbygrace]

God wants a relationship with you that is free, total, faithful, and fruitful. He wants us to be free to what ties us down and keeps us away from him which is sin. He wants us to give ourselves fully to him - total. He wants us to be faithful because he is faithful, and to be fruitful which he will take care of. He will produce the graces for us to grow in virtue to live a life we’ve been made for because we are made for more. We are not made for this world, we are made for the next. We are made to be with Christ for eternity and we have the opprtunity now to dive into that in this moment through His mercy. Let us lean to Christ’s mercy! #TOBVC #TheologyOfTheBody #TOBViritualConference #Mercy https://www.instagram.com/p/CACjkM6FlCR/?igshid=1vw3jip5efv80

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[ofhisgloryblog]

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