Why God Gave Us Bodies
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
God made the world—and you—on purpose. What is that purpose? Well, that’s what St. John Paul II went to great lengths to explain in his Theology of the Body talks, which Fr. Mike sums up beautifully in this episode. With profound simplicity, Fr. Mike—inspired by St. John Paul II—shares the fundamental truths of this ingenious vision of humanity and sexuality. Made in God’s image and likeness, you are your body, and you are made for love. What you do with your body matters. You’ll have to watch the video to get the last and most powerful point. It’s amazing.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:00.5 | I'm your name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
| 0:06.8 | So people have asked oftentimes, could you just explain what the theology of the body |
| 0:12.9 | is? |
| 0:13.9 | Do a video on that. |
| 0:15.2 | And I said, I can try. |
| 0:17.3 | Listen, it is beautiful, complex, and massive. |
| 0:21.9 | So I'm going to have to distill it to here are the elements of the theology of the body that |
| 0:25.8 | I think can capture but not express fully what they call the theology of the body is. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, so here are some of the main principles of theology of the body. |
| 0:37.8 | Actually, first thing we have to do is probably understand, you say these terms, you say these |
| 0:41.1 | words like the theology of the body. |
| 0:42.8 | What you're talking about, the theology of the body is a term given to these teachings |
| 0:46.8 | of St. John Paul the Great. |
| 0:49.0 | That date back from, I think, 1979 to 1985 for about five years in there, right? |
| 0:53.9 | He was giving these Wednesday audiences, which folks are known to do. |
| 0:59.0 | For those five years, he gave about 135 of these Wednesday audiences that have been |
| 1:03.6 | as collected and assembled and put together. |
| 1:06.2 | Now they represent John Paul the Seconds, his thought regarding relationship with God, |
| 1:11.6 | relationship with others, relationship in that unity that we originally had, but we've |
| 1:16.8 | lost and that Lord Jesus wants to restore. |
| 1:21.4 | These John Paul the Second was looking at this world around us and saying, ah, there's |
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