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I'm Christina Valenzuela, continuing our conversation this week about the language of our bodies.

Pope St. John Paul II used to write a lot about the meaning of our bodies,

because all humans are made in the image and likeness of God.

And last we checked, all humans are born with bodies. So our bodies are important. They have a lot

to teach us about how God wants us to interact with each other and with him. St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Christians at Corinth,

do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you? Yeah, you heard me. St. Paul

says that our bodies are temples. For the ancient Jewish people, the temple was the main site in Jerusalem where they would worship God.

Jesus went to the temple with his parents growing up.

It was a very special place because within the center of the temple was a place called the Holy of Holies,

the place where God dwelt in a very special way.

And St. Paul tells us that our bodies are temples, special places where the Holy Spirit dwells after our baptism.

Well, I don't know about you, but that makes me think differently about how I want to treat my body, doesn't it?

It makes me think that I should treat my body

with respect and with love, because it is a special place where God dwells. So today we're just going

to ponder a few ways we can take care of and respect our bodies as temples, because now we're not just

thinking about how we are created to love and be loved through our bodies,

but now we're thinking about the fact that the language of our body is holiness.

How do we treat something that is holy?

The first thing that comes to mind for me is that we take care of holy things, don't we?

They are precious.

So how do we take care of our bodies? We eat healthy

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