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Todays Teen
Teens are searching
The Church is in many ways surging
with excitement and participation of
youth
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To be rich
- 81%
To be famous
- 51%
To be community leaders
22%
Introduction to
John Paul II
Witnessed the smearing of the dignity of
the human person: Nazism, the holocaust,
communism, totalitarianism, economic
utilitarianism, etc.
He not only saw this he experienced it
Need for Gospel relevancy in the modern
world
Male/female relationship:
substratum of all ethics and culture
Regain an adequate anthropology to
reconnect men and women with our dignity
and original purpose
Introduction to
John Paul II
Connect to the echo of original
experiences
As well as each human heart and in our
own experience
Subjective turn of modern
philosophy but points to Christ
Our teens face similar threats in
different masks: abortion holocaust,
9/11, Virginia Tech, terrorism, false
freedom of relativism, religious
violence, sexual utilitarianism, etc.
What is the
Theology of the Body?
Pope John Paul II -- 129 short talks between
September 1979 and November 1984 (135
total)
Building a theological anthropology
Who am I? (adequate anthropology)
How am I to live? (ethics & vocation)
Nature of the human personembodiment,
distinction, and dignity of men and women
What is the
Theology of the Body?
Theology (study of God)
of the Body (as revealed through the
body)
The body entered theology through the
main door when the Word became flesh
Philosophical, theological, and moral
consequences
Love is Relevant
"Man cannot live without love. He remains a
being that is incomprehensible to himself,
his life is senseless, if love is not revealed
to him, if he does not experience it and
make it his own, if he does not participate
intimately in it" (Redemptor hominis, 10).
He who does not love does not know God,
for God is love (1 Jn 4:8)
Love is mans origin, his journey, his
destination
Original Man
Mans Original
Experiences
Historical Man
Mans History
Christ at Center
Eschatological Man
Mans Destiny
Union w/ God
Celibacy for
the Kingdom
Sacramentality
of Marriage
Love &
Fruitfulness
2. Historical Man
Fallen, yet redeemed in Christ
3. Eschatological Man
Our Union is Complete in Heaven
5. Sacramentality of Marriage
In Covenant of Love, The Two Become One Flesh
(Adequate Anthropology)
How am I to live?
(Ethics & Vocation)
8. Marriage
Chapter 1:
Created for Love
To explain Gods love for us and his desire to have
an intimate, personal relationship with us.
To define Theology of the Body and show how our
bodies teach us profound truths about
ourselves and our purpose in life.
To explain that our bodies are very good and
designed by God for communion with Him and
with each other
To explore opportunities for deeper relationships
with God and others
To recognize that just as a sacrament makes a
spiritual reality visible, the body makes our call to
love visible.
Chapter 1:
Created for Love
Interact
How do you communicate this to your teens?
(What do they care about?)
Feature #1
Notes & Nuggets (p. 11L)
Feature #2
Application - PLAY-DOH Activity (p. 13L)
Feature #3
Application: God is the Magnet (chapter 3)
Sacramentality of the Body
Primordial Sacrament (prism)
Feature #2
Notes & Nuggets: Love vs. Lust Showdown
(p. 25L)
Feature #3
To the Core: Love Test (p. 28)
Feature #2
Feature #3
Chapter 6:
Language of the Body
To demonstrate how the body can speak both
truths and lies without words
To judge the truthfulness or lies of sexual
behavior
To analyze the language of the body as the
language of love spoken within marriage
To explain how pre-marital sex, adultery,
pornography and contraception all constitute
lies of the body
Contraception disorders the sexual act by saying,
I give you some of me, but not my fertility; I
receive some of you, but not your fertility
Chapter 6:
Language of the Body
Feature #1
Story Starter (p 82)
Feature #2
Discussion Questions (p 83)
Feature #3
Movie Clip: Life is Beautiful (p 90 L)
Name the different words spoken with the
language of the body.
Which characters were speaking truths or lies?