The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

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#538: The Sacrament of Humanity

#538: The Sacrament of Humanity

The High Calling of the Body

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Matthew Lee Anderson
Feb 21, 2024
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We cannot retrieve the innocence we have lost through sin. There is no straightforward path back into the conditions of the Garden, when man and woman made the reciprocal gift of their selves to the other in freedom and in love. The ethos of the gift, though, remains our task: it persists as an “echo” of that original innocence, which it is our responsi…

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