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Bishop Robert Barron, Complimentarity, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Femininity, Homosexuality, Marriage, Masculinity, Original Unity, The Humanum Series, Theology of the Body, TOB
Understanding Man & Woman | Part 3 of 6 of The Humanum Series
01 Monday Jun 2015
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Bishop Robert Barron, Complimentarity, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Femininity, Homosexuality, Marriage, Masculinity, Original Unity, The Humanum Series, Theology of the Body, TOB
Understanding Man & Woman | Part 3 of 6 of The Humanum Series
30 Saturday May 2015
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Complimentarity, Fatherhood, Femininity, Homosexuality, Marriage, Masculine Genius, Masculinity, Motherhood, Original Unity, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Theology of the Body, TOB
The Cradle of Life & Love: A Mother & Father for the World’s Children | 2 of 6 of The Humanum Series
27 Wednesday May 2015
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Dr. Peter Kreeft, Femininity, Marriage, Masculinity, Original Unity, The Humanum Series, Theology of the Body, TOB
The Destiny of Humanity: On the Meaning of Marriage | Part 1 of 6 of The Humanum Series
19 Tuesday May 2015
Posted Original Nakedness, Original Solitude, Original Unity
inIn his dispute with the Pharisees (Mt 19: 3 ff), Christ takes marriage back to God’s plan in the beginning, seen in Genesis, which sets forth a proper understanding of the nature of man and woman, made in God’s image, as well as the unity and indissolubility of marriage.
In the beginning, Adam and Eve experienced their communion as a real participation in God’s own mystery of love. The very sentiment of sexual desire as God created it to be was to love as God loves in the sincere gift of self. Since this call to love is the summary of the Gospel, John Paul II can say that if we live according to the nuptial meaning of our bodies, we “fulfil the very meaning of [our] being and existence” (Jan 16, 1980). It is for this reason that a man clings to his wife and they become “one flesh” (Gen 2:24). The experiences of Original Man can be divided into three phases: original solitude, original unity and original nakedness. Although they appear in a sequential order, the appearance of the one does not diminish the experience before it. This means that the experience of unity does not eliminate the experience of solitude, and likewise, nakedness does not erase the experience of solitude and unity (c.f. TOB 10:4 for a reference of a “twofold solitude”, that presupposes the idea that unity does not diminish the fruits of solitude). Instead, each experience builds upon the one before it, forming a solid reconstruction of man’s experiences before sin. This is referred to as original innocence.
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(Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, detail (Karlsbad 1745 – Rome 1829), Peter Wenzel, Vatican Museum)
07 Thursday May 2015
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General Audience, Mary, Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, Original Nakedness, Original Sin, Original Solitude, Original Unity, Spousal meaning of the Body, St. John Paul II, Theology of the Body, TOB
Younger Than Sin by Lorenzo Albacete
Only the one who is “like this child” can recognize grace. That is why the one younger than sin was the same one who is full of grace.
When Pope John Paul II visited Lourdes in 1983, he recalled Bernanos’s reference to the Blessed Virgin Mary as “younger than sin.”[1] The expression points to the Immaculate Conception of Mary; Lourdes was where Mary identified herself as “the Immaculate Conception.” Continue reading