Sacrament and Mystery (Part One)

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This episode begins a new section on the Sacrament and Mystery, exploring the depth of God's love through the lens of the Sacrament of Marriage.

Welcome to another episode of the Be Filled Podcast! We have been analyzing with JPII the Sacrament of Marriage. This episode we begin a new section entitled “Sacrament and Mystery” which takes us even deeper into the mystery of God’s love. This episode we will examine Audiences 94-95b. Quotes: “In him he has chosen us before the foundation of the world to be holy and immaculate in his sight in love…” (Ephesians 1:4) “But it is the New Adam who definitively reveals the mystery by leaving his Father in Heaven and leaving the home of his mother on earth to “cleave to his wife” (the Church) and become “one flesh” with her.” (Christopher West, Theology of the Body Explained, pg. 408) See Scripture for this passage: Isa 54:4–10 “..the true character of the gift that God’s love is for Israel, a gift coming entirely from God’s initiative; in other words, by indicating the dimension of grace, which is contained in this love from the beginning. This is perhaps the strongest “declaration of love” by God, joined with a solemn oath of faithfulness forever.” (TOB 95:3) “...saving love which consists in his gift of self for the Church, is a spousal love by which he marries the Church and makes…

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Host: Be Filled Podcast

Topics covered

• Sacrament of Marriage
• God's love
• Theology of the Body
• spousal love
• grace
• mystery

Keywords

• sacrament
• marriage
• God's love
• Theology of the Body
• spousal love
• grace
• mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Theology of the Body Explained, Ephesians, Isa

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