The book “Everybody Has a Body” conveys important lessons for children about appreciating their bodies as reflections of their inner selves and highlights the beauty of gender differences as intentional designs by God.
Exactly 50 years ago, on December 8, 1974, sitting with the Blessed Sacrament, Karol Wojtyla wrote, “O, Maria, thou art beautiful.” Thus began The Theology of the Body. As many of you know, Karol Wojtyla would go on to become Pope Saint John Paul II and lead the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005. But…
Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World had it right: “I see friends shaking hands, saying, ‘How do you do?’They’re really saying, ‘I love you.’” This is one of the fundamental ideas in the Theology of the Body: the visible reveals the invisible. Friends shaking hands reveals love. Our bodies, therefore, have a unique dignity. As…
Do you remember the Last Lecture series? Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg would periodically select professors to give the lecture they would give if they only had one more chance to pass on their most important lessons. A computer science professor, Dr. Randy Pausch, was invited to give a Last Lecture, and after he had already…
This blog has been on holiday for a few weeks, recovering from the trip to Philadelphia. If you weren’t able to follow my Philly blog, you can still read it by clicking here. The Top 3 Things I learned from the World Meeting of Families and the Papal visit: The theology of the body was implicit…
The Elevator Pitch Part 3 “The body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine. It has been created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery hidden from eternity in God, and thus to be a sign of it.” (St….
The Elevator Pitch Part 2 In the last post, we began building our elevator pitch about theology of the body. An elevator pitch has to be short enough to deliver in the space of an elevator ride; let’s call it two minutes. And in that two minutes, the pitch has to engage the other person,…
With this post, we’ll start to “drill down” to what theology of the body really means. It’s great news, like cold water to a thirsty soul, so we need to know how to share that excitement and vision with others. In this post, and for the next few weeks, I’ll deliver simple bullet points that…
