Bath is running, tea is on. I'm up and not as worn out. There is Dracula this morning and that's exciting. Workshop begins Friday. Today we gel. That's exciting too. This getting to bed by ten thing might even work. Wish me luck with getting today all done today. My email boxes are overflowing.
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So it turns out Michael was referencing ("theology is all about desire") the Pope. In a way.
Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure "sex", has become a commodity, a mere "thing" to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity. This is hardly man's great "yes" to the body. On the contrary, he now considers his body and his sexuality as the purely material part of himself, to be used and exploited at will. Nor does he see it as an arena for the exercise of his freedom, but as a mere object that he attempts, as he pleases, to make both enjoyable and harmless. Here we are actually dealing with a debasement of the human body: no longer is it integrated into our overall existential freedom; no longer is it a vital expression of our whole being, but it is more or less relegated to the purely biological sphere. The apparent exaltation of the body can quickly turn into a hatred of bodiliness. --Deus Caritas Est***
