Love and Responsibility (Revised)

We're looking to the, the climax, if you will.

And John Paul II talks about this in Love and Responsibility.

Unintended, got it.

Okay.

G- and John Paul II, there's a great quote in the book because sometimes people get hung up on the fact that how can physical intimacy be a need? Especially when we're, we have celibates in, in the Church, you know, and, and virgins and all that.

But that doesn't mean it's not a need.

It just means that they give that up, that something good for the greater, right? And so it is a need, and John Paul II, I, I'm not gonna read it right now, but he has this great quote which we've included in the book from Love and Responsibility, that once a couple engages in physical intimacy, it actually becomes a need for one another to actually give themselves to one another in this way, and this is the way-

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And God created our bodies so that we would desire to come together in this beautiful way.

And so even St. John Paul II in his book, Love and Responsibility, says that if a woman does not reach climax during the sexual intercourse, it's the husband's responsibility to help her reach that.

Otherwise, she will slowly resent those moments of intimacy and resent sex and him.

And it will be a hindrance to the marriage that

God created our bodies so that we would desire to come together in this beautiful way.

And so even St. John Paul II in his book, Love and Responsibility, says that if a woman does not reach climax during the sexual intercourse, it's the husband's responsibility to help her reach that.

Otherwise, she will slowly resent those moments of intimacy and resent sex and him, and it will be a hindrance to the marriage.

So in one of the texts that are translated in our book, he talks about that sometimes people fear that the line between holiness and sin is in sex is very, very thin.

The trick is, are we going just for that? And that's where we lessen the act because it is an act of love.

You got there first.

I was going to bring up love and responsibility, obviously, as St. John Paul II is behind me on my left.

But his way of speaking, rarely do you read somebody who's talking about marital intimacy, who can make it very plain and yet very sacred.

And so I started going deep into the philosophy of John Paul II.

And I discovered love and responsibility.

And I read that book as the antidote to all the suffering that I was feeling from my parents' divorce, from not really understanding the Catholic vision of marriage and family.

And I saw in that the healing that can happen through philosophy.

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And I read Love and Responsibility.

And then, uh, and that's a whole nother story of how that changed my life.

But I also read, um, Chesterton's biography of St. Francis.

It was-

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I'll read the homilies on lo- on love and responsibility, but-

It's really, really hard, and I, I'm like, every time I open it up, I'm like, "I missed this." I feel so dumb.