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 over five years (plus six newly discovered talks that were never delivered at length), which, in book form, is well over 600 pages long! Not only is that a lot to get through, length-wise, but it also makes for some very dense reading! When it comes to a work of this magnitude I need a little something extra to help me retain what I’m trying to read. That’s why I’m loving the Apostolate for Family Consecration for putting the pope’s own words on cd! I found this in the bookstore when I was at CatholicFamilyLand last month. I wasn’t prepared to spend $50 on it then, but I do plan on ordering it very soon!