You are not who they say they are... Let me remind you WHO YOU ARE...
When Pope John Paul I died suddenly, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (St Pope John Paul II) in Krakow, Poland had been working on a powerful story of love, hope, and redemption: our story. You see, he had been a priest and bishop who loved the people around him. He saw their powerful holiness in the sacrifices they made for their families as they struggled to live good lives and overcome the ravages of Naziism and Communism. They were people of faith who were struggling with the same questions we all struggle with:
Dearest brothers and sisters:
We are all still saddened by the death of our beloved Pope John Paul I. And here the Eminent Cardinals have appointed a new Bishop of Rome. They have called him from a distant country ... distant, but always close by, communion in the faith and Christian tradition.
I have felt fear when receiving this designation, but I have done it with a spirit of obedience to Our Lord Jesus Christ and with full confidence in his Mother Most Holy Mary.
I do not know if I can explain myself well in your ... our Italian language; If I'm wrong, you'll correct me.
And so I present myself to all of you to confess our common faith, our hope and our confidence in the Mother of Christ and of the Church; and also to start anew the path of history and of the Church, with the help of God and with the help of men.
He realized early on that he wouldn't be able to produce the book that he knew the world really needed, so he took an interesting path: On September 5, 1979, in the first of his General Audiences on the Theology of the Body, the Holy Father began to teach from the words of Christ, "In the beginning the Creator made them male and female." From that day to 1984, he gave a series of 129 teachings - interrupted only by an attempt to murder him - on the profound beauty of the importance of marriage, how our holy lives lived out in love and for others change the world and make us genuinely happy.
Those teachings would change the lives of every single person who comes into contact with them.
Why?
Because they make the true nature of our importance, our dignity, and our love easy to understand in a logical, beautiful, and LIVABLE way.
The Theology of the Body isn't a new teaching, per se. It is a clearer lens through which we can understand the truth, the way, and the life that Jesus Christ laid out for us...
Come join us to discover HOW WONDERFULLY YOU WERE MADE and JUST HOW PRECIOUS A GIFT YOU REALLY ARE.