In fact sexual intercourse is meant to be a free
gift of self in openness to new life.
And that gift increases as man's
return gift of self increases, for man's life is a project to be achieved in time and through history.
All of us possess the
natural gift of self - reflection, but when life takes a sharp turn, it may be tough to make sense of your experiences alone.
Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and
of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.
The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the
profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.
Modesty acknowledges that we are able to make a
complete gift of self and that we are all worthy of dignity.
From this centrality flow all the essential characteristics of religious life: prayer, the liturgy and particularly the Eucharist, community life, mission to the world, total consecration and
radical gift of self in perseverance.
Such donation is a striking illustration of a central theme of the encyclical: that we truly come to fulfillment as persons by making «a
sincere gift of self.»
The conjugal act, profoundly unitive, isa procreative kind of act, and the gift of the child is to be profoundly linked to the spouses»
incarnate gift of self in that conjugal, not merely copulatory, act.
It is God's grace, God's
free gift of self, God's concrete presence which we experience.
The bishops trust that, armed with a sober appreciation of the obstacles cohabiting partners face, the Church can help couples transform tentative relationships into Christian marriages based on a faithful, exclusive, and
permanent gift of the self.
His reductionist anthropology can not imagine marriage as a
genuine gift of self that is oriented toward the procreation of new life.
The truly human attraction between the sexes is toward a corporal union that incarnates a spiritual union; a mutual gift of the body that represents a
mutual gift of self.
[1] «It should be noted too that the
virginal gift of self to God expands the heart, with the result that there is more of it, and not less, to give also to others.
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The current life - style of so many teenage girls suggests a contempt for virginity — in which a girl should naturally see an affirmation of her own sense of self - worth, the surrender of which signifies the
total gift of self and as such is to be kept for the man she marries.
Marriage meets universal human longings and needs: namely, the longing to give a
complete gift of self to another, and thus to procreate, and the need to connect children to their parents.
This motif casts in a new light the
precious gift of self that we bestow on the other when we utter those words «I do» at the altar.
I also affirm that from this
radical gift of self, second only to the gift of martyrdom, greater graces flow than from lesser sacrifices, because God can not be outdone in generosity.
Man and woman recapitulate the gift of God in creation by becoming a gift to each other, sexual desire was not experienced as a compulsive urge, but as the desire to make a
sincere gift of self — to love as God loves.
If she (and you and I for that matter) understood the love within the Most Holy Trinity and how that love is life - giving, one can begin to understand what love is,
the gift of self involved, I do not believe she could remain in her present position.
Yes, we have a human nature with a desire for s * x. However, we also have
the gift of self control, which most people today don't use anymore.
Eve teaches Adam how to go out of himself and thus find himself: how to become a loving
gift of self.
This how John Paul consistently maintained that through
her gift of self, Eve teaches Adam how humanity is to find its fullest realization.
Although it took the sensitivity of John Paul II to draw out the role of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become
a gift of self.
The author explores the notions of feelings, virtue, shame, loyalty and forgiveness, as well as
the gift of self and the meaning of the body.
He states that true love means we must have control over our feelings, and that eros can only be raised to
a gift of self if a man respects the dignity of woman.
Christians believe that in Jesus who is called the Christ God's
gift of self to the universe is bestowed definitively and irreversibly.
In his evolutionary Christology, Karl Rahner writes that Jesus Christ is God's
gift of self to the universe, bestowed definitively and irreversibly.
God's
gift of self is offered to the whole of the universe and not just to humans or terrestrial history.
Evolution, when interpreted by the revelatory images of God's love, is both the expression of God's
gift of self to the world and at the same time the world's response to the non-coercive, defenseless divine self - bestowal.
The Gift of Self in Marriageis a broadly sound book, but not without some weaknesses.
Instead revelation means essentially God's
gift of self.
In order to offset the impression of any such arrogance in the present work I would once again point the reader to what is considered by many Christian theologians today to be the primary meaning of revelation: God's
gift of self to the world.
This distinctively human experience of love, its commitment of self, its giving of self, its readiness to receive the other's
gift of self, its evocation of hope, and its capacity to fulfil, is not something that just «happens to us.»