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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

A Theology of Your Body

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Pope John Paul II said that what modern man needs—and is missing—is an "adequate anthropology", or, a full understanding of what it looks like to be human. Over the course of his pontificate, he gave it his best shot using the entirety of scripture, 2,000 years of church teaching, and the latest scientific understandings of the human person.

Today, we call it the Theology of the Body. And it will change the way you look at yourself and your purpose in life.

Fr. Mike Schmitz gives us an introduction to the Theology of the Body and invites us to his 4-part series diving deeper into these incredible mysteries. Sign up for the whole series for FREE here: https://www.ascensionpress.com/tobtalk/

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One of the things that we do on campus, St. Jean Paul II's,

0:02.8

theology of the body, which is basically, if we say it like this,

0:06.0

it is an adequate anthropology. Okay, wow,

0:09.9

adequate anthropology. Thanks for those two words put together.

0:14.0

It sounds like something that's of salad with only two things in it.

0:16.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is the

0:18.0

essential presents.

0:19.0

Imagine, imagine if you had, here's God's law about not lying. Imagine if you had, here's God's law about not lying.

0:24.0

Imagine if you didn't even want to lie, you'd be free from that law.

0:28.0

Here's God's law about taking what doesn't belong to you.

0:30.0

Imagine you didn't even want to take what didn't belong to you. You'd be

0:33.4

free from that law prohibiting stealing. And here's God's law against using other

0:38.6

people, using other people through manipulation, using other people

0:42.4

through exploitation, using other people through manipulation, using other people through exploitation,

0:43.5

using other people sexually.

0:45.7

Imagine that you didn't even want to use someone else

0:47.9

because you saw them clearly as like,

0:50.0

no, this is a creature made in God's very image and likeness for whom Jesus Christ lived, suffered, died, and rose from the dead, and you see them in this new way and you realize, I don't even want to manipulate, I don't want to exploit, I do not want to use that person what I mean again what I'm trying to say in all of this that means you are freed from the law

1:09.1

Jumple the second says he looked around at the modern world and he said okay there are some people who

1:13.6

who really grasp the the depths of human psyche like that's really great but

1:17.9

they miss something else or they some people really really emphasize the

1:21.0

reality that we're in bodies or people say like they really grasp the idea of like really with the other people, but they miss out on the fact that we're actually made for love,

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