About this episode

The episode discusses deepening prayer life in dating, the implications of fornication, and challenges in marital intimacy.

Questions answered this episode: I'm currently dating a good Catholic man. I feel we may be called to marriage, and a deepening of our prayer life together may help us better discern that call. We pray the rosary together every night, which has been a tremendous blessing. But I feel the need to expose my heart in prayer with him in a way that the rosary does not fully allow. I was not raised in a family that prayed aloud, so I'm not sure how to start this practice with him. What are some practical ways dating Catholic couples can deepen their prayer life together? Body is self, inseparable from soul because we are a body-soul composite. Fornication is a real bodily union, which must mean total union of persons. Doesn't union mean self-gift? But I thought real self-gift can only happen in marriage. I thought for a while in fornication it was less of a gift of the body and more like giving access to the body, but that would seem too little in light of 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 16: "Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, the two will become one flesh." I converted two years ago after listening to your…

People in this episode

Host: Christopher West

Topics covered

• spontaneous prayer
• fornication
• marriage
• Catholic dating
• intimacy
• prayer life

Keywords

• prayer
• fornication
• Catholic
• marriage
• intimacy
• self-gift
• body-soul composite

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Theology of the Body Institute

Books & works: 1 Corinthians

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