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Some books deserve more than one review. At the Heart of the Gospel: Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization, by Christopher West, is one such book. I reviewed it for the Patheos Book Club a few weeks ago. I’m reviewing … Keep reading
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Last week I had the distinct privelege of attending a Cirque du Soleil performance while in Florida. This is the second of their live shows that I have seen, and while they were both very different from one another, I was just as entranced. The first, …
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Part 3 of this series reflects upon lectures 8 thru 13 of John Paul II’s Catechesis of Human Love. Topics include Adam is Alone, The Communion of Persons, The Theology of Sex, Man Clings to His Wife, and Shame.
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In the fall of 2002, I was pregnant with my first child and a fairly new parish employee. I was tapped to drive a couple of teenagers to a neighboring town to hear Jason Evert speak. The talk was designed for teens, and though I cringe to call it a chastity talk (that just sounds so…boring, and [...]
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Theology of the Body (the Catechesis of Human Love) is the topic of a series of 129 lectures given by Pope John Paul II during his Wednesday audiences in the Pope Paul VI Hall between September 1979 and November 1984. It was the first major teaching of…
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I haven’t read any of these yet, and I don’t know how soon I’ll get to them or in what order. (Then Lent titles probably get top billing, but…we’ll see.) The blurbs included below are from the back covers or from other book information and not my own, except as marked in italics. The Catholic [...]
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Chriatopher West tells a great story in his book Heaven’s Song about an encounter on a plane. You shoud read the original, but in a nutshell, he was sitting between two women: one was physically beautiful and the other was a stereotypical mannish lesb…
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This spring my Moms’ Bible Study used a short video series by Christopher West on the Theology of the Body, Pope John Paul II’s 129 talks given near the beginning of his pontificate. I’m happy to share my notes with … Keep reading
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Today’s First Reading at Mass was taken from Genesis. It features what Pope John Paul II would call the key to understanding what came to be known as the “Theology of the Body”, John Paul’s legendary catechesis on human sexuality and embodiment.
This key is the phrase, “The man and his wife were both naked, and [...]
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Pope John XXIII, before he was elected Pontiff, served as a diplomat. One evening, he was introduced at a function to a rather scantily clad woman. “Here�, the future Pope said to her, “Why not take a bite from this apple?� The lady looked at him quizzically. He responded, “If you eat it, perhaps, like [...]
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Some of you will be giving “the talk” at some point during the holidays. I thought it would be a lovely Christmas gift to you to share these videos. These arguments about the church teachings on sexuality are easy to understand, logical, sa…
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One of our challenges as Catholics is to continue to grow in our faith. It is easy to fall into a comfortable rut of attending Mass and receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation randomly, or just once a year, in short, operating at the minimum level. We don’t just shortshrift ourselves when we do that, we [...]
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