St. Joseph Shrine's program on "Theology of the Body"

During Lent, Doug and Carol McMillan shared with parishioners of St. Joseph Shrine, Brooklyn, eight sessions of Theology of the Body on CD’s prepared by Christopher West. West travels worldwide teaching and promoting Blessed John Paul ll's Theology of the Body. It is a biblical reflection on the meaning of human embodiment as male and female, especially as it calls them to become “one flesh.”McMillan said, “We are called to love as God loves,” and continued, “We are only bitter toward God’s law if we want to break it.” He explained that people wait for redemption in their bodies and Christian ethos is transformation of the human person’s conscience and attitudes. At the end of each session, study questions are discussed; and people have an opportunity to understand and believe that their bodies are holy – and made in God’s image.