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AMDG
DeMeuse
Theology of the Body Introduction
1. How do your human desires point to the supernatural?
Desire
EXAMPLE: Not be lonely
How it points to God
God is a communion of persons and wants us to
share in love like He has
2.
Love = a decision to “will the good of another” person (CCC 1766, St. Thomas Aquinas)
WHAT CAN I GIVE?
vs.
Lust = disordered desire for or enjoyment of sexual pleasure (CCC 2351)
WHAT CAN I GET?
Give a modern day example of each – one for love and one for lust.
3. Explain how love is a decision.
Name _____________________________________________
AMDG
DeMeuse
4. Explain this seemingly ironic statement the Church makes: “Man can fully discover his
true self only in a sincere gift of self.”
5. Read the following highlighting three phrases that stick out to you.
It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness. He is waiting for you when
nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he
who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for
compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in
your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to
follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the
courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and
society, making the world more human and more fraternal.
(Pope John Paul II at World Youth Day in Rome 2000)