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Knowledge, Procreation, & the Primordial Sacrament
In recent articles, we have reflected on the logic of gift and the spousal meaning of the body. We saw…
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Motherhood: A Total Gift of Self
A young mom I know had her first baby last week. I was thinking about and praying for her this…
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Gift, Self-gift, and the Meaning of Life — Part 3: The Spousal Meaning of the Body
We saw in previous reflections that all of creation is a gift held in being at every moment by God,…
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Gift, Self-gift, and the Meaning of Life — Part 2
Last month, I reflected on the logic of gift and how it is a golden thread woven throughout Pope St.…
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Design, Order & Meaning: TOB Undergirds Tough Moral Truths
If the very meaning of our identity, is to become a saint by being a gift and receiving others as…
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Unite or Untie? I Get to Choose.
The Two Shall Become One Flesh My daughter got married last month. Leading up to the wedding there was a…
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Original Nakedness: Receiving One Another as Gifts
Last month, I introduced Pope St. John Paul II’s concept of original nakedness. In that reflection, we saw that our…
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The Gift-of-Self
“Man is the only creature on Earth which God willed for itself, [and he] cannot fully find himself except through…
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Original Nakedness: Seeing as God Sees
I began several months ago to explore the three “original experiences” Pope St. John Paul II pondered in his Theology…