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On the night of John Paul II's election to the papacy, Bishop Andrzej Deskur suffered a devastating stroke from which he is still paralyzed. John Paul II spent much of the first day of his papacy ...
Jun 29, 2022 · This 1983 portrait of Pope St. John Paul II by Guido Greganti is displayed in the Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi by Guido Greganti. ... They were created to love and serve God as ...
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- Turning Love Inward
- Self-Giving Love
- The Freedom to Love
- The Law of The Gift
Men and women today are quite susceptible to falling for this illusion of love, for the modern world has turned love inward, focusing primarily on the subjective aspect. In the last article, I wrote about the phenomenon of "Hollywood Love," which tells us that the stronger our feelings are the stronger our love is. Wojtyla, however, emphasizes that...
One of the chief hallmarks of the objective aspect of love is the gift of self. Wojtyla teaches that what makes betrothed love different from all other forms of love (attraction, desire, friendship) is that two people "give themselves" to each other. They are not just attracted to each other, and they do not simply desire what is good for each othe...
For example, consider what happens when a single man becomes married. As a single man, "Bob" is able to decide what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and how he wants to do it. He sets his own schedule. He decides where he lives. He can quit a job and move to another part of the country in an instant if he so desires. He can keep his apartmen...
Now we come to the greatest mystery of self-giving love. At the heart of this gift of self is a fundamental conviction that in surrendering my autonomy to my beloved, I gain so much more in return. By uniting myself to another, my own life is not diminished but is profoundly enriched. This is what Wojtyla calls the "law of ekstasis" or the law of s...
Professor Karol Tarnowski is one of the leading philosophers in Poland. He is a professor at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland, and specializes in the philosophy of God ...
Oct 22, 2019 · Marriage in the Economy of Salvation. The world, explained John Paul, has been penetrated by the Divine in startling fashion. “For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain ...
Mar 3, 2018 · 512 pages, $35 (hardcover) HarperOne, 2017. EWTN Catalogue Item: 6167. According to a recent YouTube video of a homily preached by Msgr. Mauro Longhi, an Opus Dei priest and former official in the ...
The Husband-Wife Relationship in Ephesians 5:21-23 Pope John Paul II's exegesis of the text given at General Audience, August 11, 1982. ... Love excludes every kind of subjection whereby the wife ...
