Spousal Love and Responsibility
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What does it mean to fall in love? How do we stay in love? St. John Paul II addresses this in his great “ethical analysis of love” chapter in Love and Responsibility. Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle address some of the chapter’s key topics: sexual urge, love as attraction, love as desire, love as benevolence, and reciprocity.
Snippet from the Show
“You have to possess yourself in order to give yourself.”
Key Quotes from the Episode
“You may not be able to command your emotions but you can train them. The same goes for passions. This is how you build virtue.”
“In order for a self gift to be true. Namely, it needs to be for both unity and procreation.”
“The more we isolate the sexual act and make it only about my pleasure, the worse it becomes. It becomes perverted.”
“A gift of self is not easy. You have to possess yourself in order to give yourself.”
“Catholics take sex so seriously because it is a sign of our Creator.”
Challenge: Read the Song of Songs
The Song of Songs is the height of the Bible because it expresses God’s love for his people.