Chapter 1: Created for Love | Chapter 2: Love Defined: Giving versus Using | Chapter 3: Naked Without Shame | Chapter 4: Hope and Redemption in Christ | Chapter 5: Truth and Freedom |
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What is Theology of the Body?
The study of God and the purpose of our existence, as discovered and revealed through our bodies.
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True
T of F: Research showed that the longer a woman delayed sexual activity, the greater the quality of life she enjoyed.
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True
T or F: Every time you resist temptation, moving toward God and away from selfishness, you grow a little bit stronger and a little bit holier.
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Who is Jesus?
He not only loves you, He longs for you, He misses you when you don't come close, He thirsts for You, He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy.
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Who are we?
God's children, made in His image and likeness.
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False
T or F: Love is the disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure.
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It's an insult to God.
Why is using someone - sexually or for any other reason - such a serious sin?
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What is "Naked without Shame"?
Nakedness that exists within the context of innocence and pure freedom, apart from lust. (What Adam & Eve experienced before the Fall.)
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What is the Sacrament of Reconciliation?
Cleanses us from sins through Christ's loving mercy and gives us strength to start anew.
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What is freedom?
Ability to desire and choose the good.
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What is Original Sin?
The first sin of mankind against God.
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What is Love?
An act of will that consists of preferring, in a constant manner, the good of others to the good of oneself.
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What is Pride?
The root of all moral evil in the world?
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What is complaining that purity is too difficult, reducing our redemption to some quaint religious idea that sounds good but has no real power to change us?
Empties the cross of its meaning.
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What is lust?
Self-gratification at the expense of another.
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What is Communion of Persons?
Created when two or more persons give themselves to one another in love.
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Chastity is the virtue that directs all our sexual desires, emotions, and attractions toward the dignity of the person and the real meaning of love. Abstinence means "not having sex."
What is the difference between Chastity and Abstinence?
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What is Nuptial Meaning of the Body?
The marital meaning of the body not only toward our union here on earth, but also toward a participation in a heavenly marriage, the marriage of Christ and the Church.
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What is Eschatological Man?
Final stage of our perfection.
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What is the truth?
It will set you free.
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Who is Pope John Paul II?
Dedicated 129 of his "Wednesday audiences" during the first six years of his papacy to a series of talks about the human body and sexuality.
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What is "Love and Responsibility"?
Name of the book that Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla, at the time) wrote in the late 1950s about love.
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What is the Trinity?
A communion of persons, a family of Love. (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit).
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Who is God?
Omniscient (All knowing).
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What is the true language of sex?
I am completely yours. I belong totally to you.
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