For this week’s TOB Tuesday check out Robert Colquhoun’s podcast on Seeking God’s Plan for Love and Life. Says Colquhoun: The main aim, purpose and meaning of our lives is to love. God calls us to this exceptional challenge to live our lives as a gift for others. Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA Colquhoun is … Read More
My Morning Meditation With St. Gianna
I love this mug (and this saint) See what else St. Gianna, who gave up her own life so that he unborn child would live, said about suffering. A related post worth re-visiting: The Paradox of the Cross Find this mug and others like it at Catholic to the Max
TOB Tuesday: How Far is Too Far?
Inevitably, when learning about chastity, some of our young people (and even many adults, for that matter!) want to know, “how far can I go without crossing the line?” But that is the wrong question to ask (h/t Inflated Tires): Chastity is about overcoming our selfish sexual desires, upholding our own dignity, the dignity of the other and the sacredness … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Spousal Meaning of the Body and God’s Will for Man
The body has a “spousal” meaning because the human person…is a creature that God willed for his own sake and that, at the same time, cannot fully find himself except through the gift of self [Gaudium et Spes 24:3] ~John Paul II — General Audience 1/16/80 (TOB 15:5) By our nakedness we can clearly see that man and woman were … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Human Beings as Objects of Use pt. II
In a previous TOB Tuesday post I pointed out the beginning of a three part series of columns over at Catholic Exchange in which Dale O’Leary attempts to answer the challenge posed to traditional sexual morality by the “Sexual Revolutionaries” of the last thirty years. In part one he reviewed the examination of the fundamentally anti-person Sexual Revolution made by … Read More
Together They Run, Swim, Bike…Live
Dick & Rick Hoyt dispel the myth that having a disability or a disabled child is an obstacle to living and enjoying life: What a supreme example of self-less love and dedication is Dick Hoyt! Find out more about this father and son on the Team Hoyt website Meet Patrick Thibodeau I Enjoyed Every Minute of It! People With Disabilities … Read More
TOB Tuesday: A Real Love Song
Matt Maher sings his song “Set Me as a Seal” based on the Song of Songs (See lyrics.): A few years ago, Pauline Books and Media released a revised version of the Theology of the Body text – a collection of 129 Wednesday audiences delivered by John Paul II on God’s plan for human love. The biggest difference in this … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Called to Love
Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, has written a new book with the help of Father José Granados explaining John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Here is a description of the book titled “Called to Love“: Christianity has long been regarded as viewing the body as a threat to a person’s spiritual nature and of denying … Read More
Excellent: Jeff Fortenberry Addresses Clinton
Video of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) addressing SOS Clinton and following up on Rep. Chris Smith’s comments about her love for the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger (h/t Catholic Fire): He even mentions the “genius of woman” I love that! Yes, women deserve better than abortion. The “genius” of woman is her ability to give love freely – in other words, … Read More
TOB Tuesday: What is Marriage?
A few years ago Pope Benedict said: There are some who believe that it is legitimate to destroy human life in its earliest or final stages. Equally troubling is the growing crisis of the family, which is the fundamental nucleus of society based on the indissoluble bond of marriage between a man and a woman. Experience has shown that when … Read More