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🗓️ 17 November 2022
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Let's talk about exercise!
Today Fr. Mike challenges us to re-evaluate the way we treat and view our bodies as well as to compare the difference between doing a workout and training whether for a race, competition or towards a goal and that same approach to growing in the spiritual life.
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0:00.0 | So I'm working out like this. However, I'm working out. Maybe I'm doing intervals or maybe doing |
0:04.4 | phart legs, maybe doing kind of like speed work. That's what phart like means, means speed play. |
0:08.6 | But it's in a different language. It's more fun to say phart like, how many of his father makes |
0:11.6 | Schmitz? And this is essential presents. Let's talk about the body. It's like what exercise. |
0:15.2 | The we're going to later move from the body to the soul. So just hang in there. St. |
0:18.7 | jump out this again. When he was the holy father and talking about the theology of the body, |
0:22.2 | he pointed out how we can as modern people, we can even as modern Catholic Christians, we can fall |
0:28.6 | into one of two kind of extremes when it comes to the body, both of which are incorrect. One is |
0:33.1 | this denigration of the body. That sense that the body means nothing. The body isn't me. The body |
0:37.6 | simply that cage that holds my soul. And once I die, I'm free from the cage. That kind of thing. That's |
0:42.3 | that's not Christian. So that's the fact is anti-Christian because we recognize that Jesus Christ in his |
0:47.8 | body saves us. In his living, suffering, loving, dying, rising, ascending to heaven in the body, |
0:54.3 | that actually saves us. So the body is not a bad thing. The body is a good thing. In fact, it's |
0:58.4 | essential to be a human to have that body in soul unity. The other extreme is what John |
1:03.6 | Paul II, St. John Paul II called the cult of the body. And that's that that we are probably more |
1:09.0 | familiar with. There might be some people in our culture who kind of denigrate the body or |
1:12.8 | we've been this idea that when you escape the body, which actually is a thing. There are people who |
1:18.3 | will say that like the body, their body isn't really them. And that's contrary not only to reason, |
1:23.2 | contrary to Christianity. But the other extreme, like St. John Paul II said, the cult of the body, |
1:27.4 | that's the idea that we're preoccupied with the body, right? We're kind of obsessed with the |
1:32.8 | body. That sense that we want to be striving after some kind of false perfection when it comes to |
1:39.4 | the body. And so the middle ground, right, is the way of virtue. And the middle ground is something |
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