We start pretty fast!
It's clear that marriage is hurting as an institution: fewer marriages later in life with less children and more divorces... Tough times...
Why? In addition to the selfishness and weakness of the flesh of all times, there is the perceived increase in the expectation of the necessities of life, individualism with its inability to trust and fear of commitment, the objectification of women with pornography, technology that make the fruitfulness of option perceived as optional, and we don't prioritize sacrifice.
It comes from a dualism and a materialism.
And Pope St John Paul II shows up and brings the Theology of the Body in the nic of time!
1) Dignity of the human person
2) We are soul and body
3) There are two ways of being body--male and female
4) The sexual differences reveal the "spousal meaning of the body", that is, we are meant to be gift
5) The spousal meaning of the body is fulfilled with the mutual gift resulting in marriage, a communion of persons, which mirrors the Trinity
6) Sin ruins this plan, specifically lust which causes an alienation between man and woman.
7) But Jesus sets us free and restores what has been broken/wounded.
We start pretty fast!
It's clear that marriage is hurting as an institution: fewer marriages later in life with less children and more divorces... Tough times...
Why? In addition to the selfishness and weakness of the flesh of all times, there is the perceived increase in the expectation of the necessities of life, individualism with its inability to trust and fear of commitment, the objectification of women with pornography, technology that make the fruitfulness of option perceived as optional, and we don't prioritize sacrifice.
It comes from a dualism and a materialism.
And Pope St John Paul II shows up and brings the Theology of the Body in the nic of time!
1) Dignity of the human person
2) We are soul and body
3) There are two ways of being body--male and female
4) The sexual differences reveal the "spousal meaning of the body", that is, we are meant to be gift
5) The spousal meaning of the body is fulfilled with the mutual gift resulting in marriage, a communion of persons, which mirrors the Trinity
6) Sin ruins this plan, specifically lust which causes an alienation between man and woman.
7) But Jesus sets us free and restores what has been broken/wounded.