Blessed John-Paul II From the beginning of creation, God made them male and female Because the Word of God was made flesh, the body has entered – if I might put it this way –the great door into theology... The incarnation, and the redemption that follows from it, have become the definitive source for the sacrament of marriage... Many people and christians seek in marriage the fulfillment of their vocation. How many there are who desire to find in it their way to salvation and holiness. For them, the answer Christ gave to the Pharisees, defenders of the Old Testament, is particularly important... Indeed, along the way of this vocation, how indispensable is a deepened awareness of the significance of the body in its masculine and feminine aspects! How necessary an exact understanding of the spousal significance of the body and its procreative meaning –granted that everything that forms the content of the life of married couples always has to find its full and personal meaning in their life together, their behavior and sentiments. This is all the more necessary against the background of a civilization that exists under the pressure of materialist and utilitarian ways of thinking and judging... How significant it is that Christ, in his answer to all these questions, commands man to return... to the origins of his theological history. He orders him to set himself at the frontier between innocence, the first happiness, and the inheritance of his first fall. Isnt he trying to tell him that... the way on which he is leading the human being, man or woman, in the sacrament of marriage, namely the way of the redemption of the body, consists in the recovery of that dignity in which, at one and the same time, the true meaning of the human body, its personal meaning and its “communal” meaning, is fulfilled?
Posted on: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:11:29 +0000
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