One can not say they are X, but live out Y. This is a formula for psychic problems.
- If love does not climb, it falls. If, like the flame, it does not burn upward to the sun, it burns downward to destroy. If sex does not mount to heaven, it descends into hell. There is no such thing as giving the body without giving the soul. Those who think they can be faithful in soul to one another, but unfaithful in body, forget that the two are inseparable. Sex in isolation from personality does not exist! An arm living and gesticulating apart from the living organism is an impossibility. Man has no organic functions isolated from his soul. There is involvement of the whole personality. Nothing is more psychosomatic than the union of two in one flesh; nothing so much alters a mind, a will, for better or for worse. The separation of soul and body is death. Those who separate sex and spirit are rehearsing for death. The enjoyment of the other's personality through one's own personality, is love. The pleasure of animal function through another's animal function is sex separated from love.
- [Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Three to Get Married]
Great Lesson!
In the
time of the Bible, they knew this, the many devils said to be in the
person was usually symbolic of their inability to live United
This word United is very powerful!
Personal health: one must be united in action and mind, mind and body.
Family health: the family must be united for the family to live out its familial relationships
The City: the city must be united to produce.benefits for all
The football team: the oline, the whole team must be united on the team's goals
Sex, the function of sex is one of unity, if one shares oneself, they biologically carry all the contact to others.... this is a fact! Do you not think it is the same for the mind. If you give thought to another, you won't completely lose that. You will remember someway and somehow. Can one who has uncontrollably given themself away really ever have the right mental make-up to give oneself fully to another in unity? It is not hard to see that once we give a piece of ourselves away, it is hard to repossess that piece and give our all to the one we wish to unite with.
This is the depths of the Catholic teaching about the body.
CATHOLICISM = UNITY
CATHOLICISM = HEALTH!
Indeed, sin is disunity, sinning is not being united with the Creator, God.
In Holy Communion, we come to 'full communion'' with God as sinners, almost as Heaven. We bring ourselves, our sins to the mass and ask for forgiveness, but in Heaven we leave our sins behind and the real power of communion with Christ is revealed.
Indeed, sin is disunity, sinning is not being united with the Creator, God.
In Holy Communion, we come to 'full communion'' with God as sinners, almost as Heaven. We bring ourselves, our sins to the mass and ask for forgiveness, but in Heaven we leave our sins behind and the real power of communion with Christ is revealed.
