As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you. (Is 62:5) A friend of mine had this as her Facebook status today: “If the human body is really God’s image in the visible world, then the deep and powerful attraction we feel … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The Word Made Flesh
Because we are still in the Christmas season and because it is so significant, I want to re-post some of what I posted last week from Steve Pokorny’s Catholic Exchange article on the REAL meaning of Christmas: Have you ever really listened to “Oh come, all ye faithful?” Check out the third verse: Yea, Lord, we greet Thee Born this … Read More
TOB Tuesday: The REAL Meaning of Christmas
Steve Pokorny writes at Catholic Exchange: Have you ever really listened to “Oh come, all ye faithful?” Check out the third verse: Yea, Lord, we greet Thee Born this happy morning; Jesus, to Thee be all glory giv’n; Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing. GLORY In the public square, the Second Person of the Trinity was proclaimed by … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Technology and Human Conception
After coming across another IVF horror story today, I thought this article from Christopher West would be fitting for today. Certainly we can see that there are some serious problems with IVF with regard to the hundreds of thousands of “left-over” embryos that are either destroyed, frozen for later “use,” or intentionally farmed for medical experimentation. But even if we … Read More
TOB Tuesday: A Real Priest Speaks to Real Men
There is no question that men today, more so than in previous generations, are challenged with mixed messages about what it means to be a man. This is especially true when it comes to love, marriage, sexuality and family life. In his book Man to Man: A Real Priest Speaks to Real Men about Marriage, Sexuality and Family Life, Fr. … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Suffering as a Gift from God
This is an excellent article from Steve Pokorny at Catholic Exchange. A bit of an intro: Throughout human history, since Adam and Eve, there has been the temptation to want to take the powers of life into our own hands. There is the insidious idea that is floated through our fallible minds that if we manipulate things to our liking, … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sex, Life and Death
In a column for Catholic Exchange not too long ago, Dr. Mark Dendrickson commented on the increasing incidence of men killing their pregnant lovers and how the “culture of death” has progressed this far. The driving force: Another powerful anti-life undertow was generated by the “sexual revolution.” For many, the Judeo-Christian concept of sex for procreation was eclipsed by the … Read More
Theology of the Body T-Shirt!
Check out this awesome shirt from Digital Catholic celebrating the Theology of the Body: Front: Back: H/T : Inflated Tires, who says: This t-shirt is inspired by the teaching of the Theology of the Body where the earthly marriage of man and woman is said to be a foreshadowing, a foretaste, of the heavenly banquet. That heavenly banquet is previewed … Read More
TOB Tuesday: TOB Video Series
I found a great little video series on the Theology of the Body from Fr. Roger Landry of the Diocese of Fall River Mass. – excellent for anyone picking up the teaching for the first time. Here is part one: See part II, part III, part IV, part V, part VI, part VII and part VIII TOB Tuesdays
TOB Tuesday: Sex and Natural Law
JP II comments on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae and the nature of the marital act: “The Church…teaches that each and every marriage act must remain through itself open to the transmission of life. That teaching, often set forth by the magisterium, is founded upon the inseparable connection, willed by god and unable to be broken by man on … Read More