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Im,
I don't think you and I are in disagreement here about principles. We may disagree as to their prudential application or order of introduction.
I would not begin a catechism class with the teaching of HV, for instance. To do so would fail to provide the proper context for the teaching. If anything, I think a proper understanding of God and man in the image and likeness of God (tied to the Theology of the Body) IS a good place to start since it begins by addressing man's vocation to theosis - body and soul.
But let's not make HV more or less than what it is...
God bless,
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In a different context, Father Thomas Loya's words are well suited for the Latin Church in the Western world as well.
We all should be who we need to be.
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Im,
I don't think you and I are in disagreement here about principles. We may disagree as to their prudential application or order of introduction.
I would not begin a catechism class with the teaching of HV, for instance. To do so would fail to provide the proper context for the teaching. If anything, I think a proper understanding of God and man in the image and likeness of God (tied to the Theology of the Body) IS a good place to start since it begins by addressing man's vocation to theosis - body and soul.
But let's not make HV more or less than what it is...
God bless,
Gordo
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Im,
I don't think you and I are in disagreement here about principles. We may disagree as to their prudential application or order of introduction.
I would not begin a catechism class with the teaching of HV, for instance. To do so would fail to provide the proper context for the teaching. If anything, I think a proper understanding of God and man in the image and likeness of God (tied to the Theology of the Body) IS a good place to start since it begins by addressing man's vocation to theosis - body and soul.
But let's not make HV more or less than what it is...
God bless,
Gordo I think we do agree. But don't you think HV seems to me at the heart of the new evangelization? First because marriage is in the "normal" call to holiness for most of us. Second, because as JPII has indicated (as I have read, by the new translator of JP II's reflections on the Theology of the Body), marriage is the foundational sacrament. It was from the beginning and it symbolizes Christ loves for the Church. That I suppose is a good beginning for preaching Christ to the modern world, "Deus Caritas Est." HV should not be at the beginning of the catechism class for adults, but it would be at the heart of it.
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As Father Loya often says, "There is no question that the Theology of the Body can't answer."
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From Deus Caritas Est:"
"Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa. God's way of loving becomes the measure of human love. This close connection between eros and marriage in the Bible has practically no equivalent in extra-biblical literature."
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