1. Freedom to Love
The Theology of the Body
Applied to Our Lives
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Our Lady of Peace
Young Adult Group

2. Table of Contents
A Brief Overview of the Theology of the Body
1. Sex and the Meaning of Existence
2. Understanding the Body as a “Theology”
3. God‟s Mystery & the Spousal Analogy
4. Unmasking the Counterfeits
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
1. What is Freedom
2. The Dependence of Freedom on Truth
3. How Do We Know the Truth?
4. The Freedom for Which Christ Set Us Free
5. The Holy Spirit is the Source of Freedom
Love as I Have Loved You
1. What is Love?
2. Chastity & the Integration of Love
3. Love & the “Unrepeatability” of the Person
Living the Redemption of Sexuality
1. Sex, Lies, & Redemption
2. The “Great Divorce”
3. Integration in Christ
4. Some Practical Points
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3. The Bouillon Cubes

4. True Freedom Serves the Good
2a. “There is no true freedom except in the service
of what is good…The choice to disobey and do evil
is an abuse of freedom and leads to the „slavery of
sin‟”
(CCC, n. 1733).
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5. True Freedom
quot;True freedom is liberation not from the external
constraint that calls me to good, but from the
internal constraint that hinders my choice of the
good.quot;
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6. Fulfillment of the Law
quot;Do not think that I have come to abolish the law. I
have not come to abolish the law; I have come to
fulfill the law.quot;
Matthew 5:17
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7. The MOAB: Mother of All Bouillon Cubes
2c. “The body, and in fact, it alone, is capable of making
visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine. It was
created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the
mystery hidden since time immemorial in God, and thus to
be a sign of it” (TB, 76).
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8. Chastity and the Integration of Love
So Long, Self

9. Chastity
When we seek this balance between will, emotion,
and attraction, and when we find it, we call it the
quot;integration of lovequot;
Chastity is the Virtue (or Super Power) that
enables this integration
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10. Authentic Love Wills the Good
For love to take root, authentic love, above all we
must firmly set our will on what is good for the
other person. And, it is never good to use the other
person for a means to our selfish end.
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11. The Integration of Love
An integration takes place, deep within our hearts,
where sexual attraction actually becomes an
attraction and a desire to uphold the other person's
good.
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12. Chastity Frees Love from Selfishness
quot;Chastity can only be thought of in association with
the virtue of love. The function of chastity is to free
love from the utilitarian attitude. And, that utilitarian
attitude is the desire to use the other person for my
pleasure.”
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13. Love is Integration
When we lust we live shattered lives
When we love, we experience integration.
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14. Chastity Affirms Our Dignity
quot;The essence of chastity consists in quickness to affirm the
value of the human person in every situation. And, in raising
to the personal level all of our reactions to that person's
body and sexuality.
“It is not a matter of annihilating our attraction to the body
and sexuality or pushing reactions to them into our
subconscious, rather it is a matter of sustained and long
term integration, so that our attraction to a person's body
and sex is grounded and integrated in the value of the
person.quot;
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15. Chastity is a Yes
quot;Chastity is not a blind inhibition
of physical impulses, such that
they are pushed down into the
subconscious where they await
an opportunity to explode. If
chastity is practiced only in this
way (which is actually not
practicing chastity at all) it does,
indeed, create the danger of such
explosions.quot;
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16. Redemption of Sexual Desire
Redemption implies an
inner transformation in the
way we experience sexual
desire.
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17. Pope John Paul the Great
pray for us
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