This is a really nice post from Brian Killian exploring the two different experiences of sexual desire: Sexual desire can propel us upward, or it can pull us down. When it ascends to heaven it is good and holy and fulfilling, but when it drags us down it is degrading and leads to a fall. This fall can be called … Read More
TOB Tuesday: God’s Plan for Life and Love
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
TOB Tuesday: Sex and the Love of Christ and the Church
At Mass this Sunday we heard from St. Paul: Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Healthcare and the Theology of the Body
Who is sick of talking/hearing about health care these days?? I know I sure am! Well, here’s a little different look at it for you, at least. In light of the ongoing debate on the subject in Washington and at town hall meetings throughout the country, Fr. Thomas Loya writes about healthcare and the Theology of the Body Our bodies … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Pray for Priests!
Since today is the feast of St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests, let’s again take this time to thank God and pray for those men who have answered the call to freely renounce the gift of self to another person that they might give themselves totally to Christ “for the kingdom of heaven.” I should have noticed today’s … 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: Get Pope’s Words on CD!
After years of learning about John Paul II’s Theology of the Body from various TOB “experts” I am very much interested in finally studying the words of the pope himself, but no matter how bad I want to, the idea of actually reading the original TOB text is still pretty intimidating. It is a collection of 129, Wednesday audiences delivered … 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
TOB Tuesday: Caritas in Veritate on Sex and Marriage
I thought for today’s TOB Tuesday post it would be appropriate to point out what the pope has to say about sex and marriage in his most recent encyclical. In paragraph 15, Pope Benedict comments on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae: The Encyclical Humanae Vitae emphasizes both the unitive and the procreative meaning of sexuality, thereby locating at the … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Human Beings as Objects of Use
The sexual revolution of the last thirty years has seriously challenged the way people in today’s society view each other as human beings and how they understand real love. With its utilitarian view of marriage and sexual relations, this revolution has lead to the pursuit of sexual pleasure as an end in itself – a kind of radical self-seeking that … Read More