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COMING SPRING 2025! Bilingual (Spanish/English) Grades K-5 REVEALED Teacher’s Guides & Student Activity Books! We Need To Assess Interest to Help with Ordering for Fall ’25 Teaching!

COMING SPRING 2025! Bilingual (Spanish/English) Grades K-5 REVEALED Teacher’s Guides & Student Activity Books! We Need To Assess Interest to Help with Ordering for Fall ’25 Teaching!

Ruah Woods Institute is THRILLED to be rolling out our K-5 REVEALED Theology of the Body Curriculum Bilingual (Spanish/English) USCCB…

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Knowledge, Procreation, & the Primordial Sacrament

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

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

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

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

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.

Unite or Untie? I Get to Choose.

The Two Shall Become One FleshMy daughter got married last month.  Leading up to the wedding there was a lot…

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Original Nakedness: Receiving One Another as Gifts

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

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

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…

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