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Understanding Love
Creating a definition of Love
What does it mean to love?
- How can I show my love to somebody the best?
(2) The relationship of spouses is the paradigm of self-giving love in human experience.
(1) Love involves the gift of self.
(2) The relationship of spouses is the paradigm of self-giving love in human experience.
(3) The relationship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the source and model of all self-giving love.
(3) The relationship of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the source and model of all self-giving love.[1]
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[1] Christopher West, Theology of the Body Explained, Revised Edition.
(Boston, MA: Pauline Books & Media, 2007), 34.
o By giving them things that are important to me (special mementos, times, food, etc)
o By giving them things that are important to me (special mementos, times, food, etc)
o By giving parts of myself
How is being loved by somebody different than that person being proud of somebody?
Love is unconditional (I love the person)
i.e.
Proud is conditional (I am proud of what the person does or who the person has become)
Let’s say your child has just hit another child
A) Who would say they still love their child
B) Who would say they are proud of their child?
We need to understand Love as a gift of the self with no strings attached.
There is no such thing as I will love you if...
This plays into the themes of God in the OT, he graciously blesses the people with his covenants, with his provision (manna) regardless of their behavior.
This should make us reflect, do I really love my neighbor, my roommate, my brother, my sister, my fellow church members, my fellow fellowship members, my classmates, etc., or is my gift of myself conditional.
Triune Example of Love
o The Father seeks to gives all things to the Son through the Spirit
o The Spirit seeks to glorify the Father and the Son
o The Son seeks to glorify the Father and the Spirit
o The trinity cares about the other more than the self
Source of Love
Source of Love
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you” (Jn 15:9).
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (Jn 15:12).
“Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church” (Eph 5:25).
The whole of John Paul II’s theological and anthropological vision flows through these “as’s”—from the Father, through Christ’s spousal love for the Church, and into the lives and bodies of concrete men and women.
As Humans, we can love as we have been loved.
(Jesus is the model)
What is the problem though?
In the trinity, there is perfect trust, so in the father giving to the son, he knows that the son will recirprocate and give to the self.
This leads to a fundamental problem of the human condition.
Understanding Shame
In order to understand shame, we need to understand the context in which it came into existence in Genesis.
Original Purpose (Pre-Fall)
Why did God see that it was not good for man to be alone?
Sex
Who was to be the receiver of man’s gift of love?
Who was man made to be in communion with?
What does this tell us, that God said it is not good for man to be alone?
One of the things it should tell us is that man is created to be in community, to love, to give himself as a gift to one another.
Original Unity
Gen
Why is this significant?
What had just happened?
Sex
Man had just named all the creatures of the world, and could not find a companion suitable for him.
Man exclaims, She is of me!
As her origins came from me, so shall our purpose in life to be, to be together, united.
To be an exterior testimony to the world of unity, I am you, and you are me.
Original Nakedness
What would a relationship look like if you were naked and not ashamed?
Can you even imagine what that would look like?
I personally find these things hard to imagine, so let me ask you this.
When you in relationship with somebody (friend, significant other, parent, sibling, etc), what happens when one person feels shame?
Where does the focus shift?
Shame makes us point towards ourselves instead of towards one another and God.
Shame turns us inward when we are meant to be outward creatures.
Now this is not to shame those who feel shame, this is to point out that when we feel shame, this is a result of the fall, and is unnatural.
How we should deal with shame is a HUGE topic, and one we don’t have enough time for today here.
Originally, “man and woman did not experience the walls of shame in their relationship.
They had no fear that the other would use them, hurt them, or ever reject them.
Free from sin, they were free to love.
In a relationship of total reciprocal love, the walls of shame are not necessary.
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https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/marriage-and-family/sexuality/five-key-features-of-the-theology-of-the-body.html
Original Shame
Has anybody here ever felt so self conscious that they felt like they were not as present as they could be?
For example
Tiffany @ Johnson Wedding
I was at a wedding, and I saw somebody that I thought I didn’t know hanging out with our “group.”
I figured I would be nice and introduce myself to her, and say Hi, What’s your name.
She replied, are you joking?
I realized I had made a serious social blunder, but I really didn’t recognize her.
I later heard her introduce herself and realized that she was my housemates girlfriend when I was a senior in college… She had gained a little weight so I didn’t recognize her.
Because I was so ashamed, I was “not as present” at the wedding we were attending for a while.
This “Knew”is the exact same word used for sex - one for the self feeling shame (becoming known to the self) and sex (knowing the other).
So why am I telling you this and what exactly does this have to do with sex?
The Problem of Sex – What is it and why can’t I do it?
The fundamental “Heart Issue”
Instead of asking: “How far can I go before I break the law?” we need to ask, “What does it mean to be human?”
“What is a person?”
“What does it mean to love?” “Why did God make me male or female?” “Why did God create sex in the first place?”
Instead of asking: “How far can I go before I break the law?” we need to ask, “What does it mean to be human?”
“What is a person?”
“What does it mean to love?” “Why did God make me male or female?” “Why did God create sex in the first place?”[3]
(TOB)
Sex is an issue in today culture for a few reasons.
We have lowered ourselves to be like (not above) the creatures of this world.
We see ourselves as driven by desires (sexual, physical (hunger), etc.), not as driven by purpose ordained by God.
Because of “sexual drive” we tend to seek sexual gratification as a way to satisfy us.
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