Tag: Theology of the Body

TOT: Truth

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October 25, 2018: Mari Pablo @ St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church

About the speaker: Mari grew up in a Hispanic family in Miami. She graduated from Franciscan University with a double major in theology and psychology has her master’s in theology from the Augustine Institute. She has worked in ministry for over 15 years. She is passionate about St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, and was recently featured in Ascension Press TOB programs. Mari has a deep love for food but an even greater love for Christ and is dedicated to helping others encounter him.

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Main Talk (Download)

Q&A (Download)

Into the breach!

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If we’re friends on Facebook, you may well have seen a video I posted last week:

This video is part of the Into the breach initiative from the Diocese of Phoenix. Bishop Olmsted, the Bishop of that Diocese, recently released an apostolic exhortation to men, asking them to “Step into the breach”, to fill the void in our society left by an absence of authentic masculinity. In this exhortation, the good Bishop discusses what it means to be a man and gives some of the practical guidance for living out the masculine calling in all its fullness.

I was very much impressed by this apostolic exhortation and I took it with me on my retreat this week so that I could spend some unhurried time reading through it and considering the challenges it poses. After subsequent rereading, I thought that it deserves to be more widely known, so I recorded it onto MP3, making it available to a wider audience.

Audio Download

Into The Breach – Introduction (Download)
The three questions and the context for answering them

Into The Breach – Question #1 (Download)
What does it mean to be a Christian man?

Into The Breach – Question #2 (Download)
How does a Catholic man love?

Into The Breach – Question #3 (Download)
Why is fatherhood, fully understood, so crucial for every man?

Into The Breach – Conclusion (Download)
Sent forth by Christ and Faith of our Fathers

If you don’t want to download multiple files, a recording of the entire document as a single MP3 is available here (80MB).

Music Monday: You wouldn’t mind

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We’ll be leaving classical music for the next few weeks. I know I’ve shared this video in an earlier Wise Words on Wednesday post, but I think it’s so good, I want to post it again. Here’s Theology Of The Body in a song, Colleen Nixon‘s “You wouldn’t mind”:

My lips aren’t kissable they’re normally chapped
but you wouldn’t mind, baby you wouldn’t mind
My hair is frizzy I don’t straighten it flat
but you wouldn’t mind baby you wouldn’t mind…

…because you love me completely
you won’t separate my body from my soul
I’m so lucky that you chose me
I can’t wait to spend my life with you

My eyes are brown and you don’t wish they were blue
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that
You don’t have to say “I love you” cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that…

Body and soul, body and soul our love is always becoming
and it’s dependent upon, the way we die to ourselves
and the depth of our commitment to loving the body and soul, body and soul,
I will give and never take
I’m so faint with love for you body and soul, body and soul
I love you body and soul, body and soul

You don’t have to say I love ’cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that

Body & Soul

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“To look upon a woman lustfully is to separate her body from her soul, and thus to bring about death. The death which is summoned is a spiritual one, but it comes to him who would attempt to bring about such a divorce of body and soul. What God has joined together, let no man rent asunder”

– Anonymous