Jacob Moore’s Reviews > Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body > Status Update

"If conjugal chastity manifests itself at first as an ability to resist the concupiscence of the flesh, it subsequently reveals itself as a singular ability to perceive, love, and realize those meanings of the "language of the body" that remain completely unknown to concupiscence itself and progressively enrich the spousal dialogue of the couple by purifying, deepening, and at the same time simplifying it." P. 646

"If we assume that the reasons for deciding not to procreate are morally right, the moral problem of the way of acting in such a case remains, and this mode expresses itself in an act that possesses its own intrinsic moral qualification, positive or negative. The first positive corresponds to the "natural" regulation of fertility; the second, negative, corresponds to "artifical contraception." P. 629

"In this dramatic moment, Tobias and Sarah, when on the wedding night it was their due ... to speak reciprocally with the "language of the body," they transform this "language" into a single voice. That unison is prayer. This voice, this act of speaking in unison, allows both of them to pass beyond ... the threat of evil and death, inasmuch as they open themselves totally ... to the living God." P. 602

"Both at any rate -- he and she -- together express in the song wonder and amazement not only for the "I" of the other in his or her feminine or masculine "revelation," but also for the love by which this "revelation" is realized." P. 560

"In the texts of the prophets, who see in marriage the analogy of Yahweh's covenant with Israel, the body tells the truth through faithfulness and conjugal love, and, when it commits "adultery" it tells a lie, they commits falsehood." P. 538

Great time this morning remembering the glorious but weighty and prophetic task that being faithful in my marriage is. I pray God helps me walk in the truth.

"Is not the spousal love with which Christ "loved the church," his Bride, "and gave himself for her" equally the fullest incarnation of the ideal of "continence for the kingdom of God" (see Matt. 19:12)? P. 528

This is a riveting thought and one I need to chew on!

"Is not the spousal love with which Christ "loved the church," his Bride, "and gave himself for her" equally the fullest incarnation of the ideal of "continence for the kingdom of God" (see Matt. 19:12)? P. 528

This is a riveting thought and one I need to chew on!

"Although Ephesians does not specify it, we can nevertheless add that the church too, united with Christ as the wife with her husband, draws from the sacrament of redemption her whole spiritual fruitfulness and motherhood." P. 509

"One can say that the visible sign of marriage "in the beginning," inasmuch as it is linked to the visible sign of Christ and the church on the summit of God's saving economy, transposes the eternal plan of love into the "historical" dimension and makes it the foundation of the whole sacramental order." P. 503