tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post4653140434874078015..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: Pilgrimage: Capuchin Church of the Immaculate Conception, RomeBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-116082032854781542007-08-23T12:30:00.000-04:002007-08-23T12:30:00.000-04:00I have heard a homily on the resurrection of the b...I have heard a homily on the resurrection of the body exactly once in the 10 years I have been catholic. Yet this dogma of the faith is so important to our lives and the temptations of the modern world. I think there are a lot of manichean and cathrist elements in the faith of a good number of chatholics who have never been challenged to think about the eternal nature of their bodies.<BR/><BR/>We are too quick to separate the body from the soul in our thinking. Because of this, too many of us care too little about the defilement of our bodies. I think that a good deal of our justifications for and rationalizations of sexual sin are rooted in a rejection of the body as an eternal part of who we are. When the reality is that our essence for eternity is to be creatures of the flesh. A fuller awareness of this truth would likely mean greater attention to our vocation as stewards of the earth as well.<BR/><BR/>One of the things I like about relics is that they are pieces of eternity. Because the soul of the saint is in heaven, we know that the pieces of matter that survive them on earth--their bones--have reached a perfection not seen many places in the physical world.<BR/><BR/>--ben in denverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com