Father Matthew Wiering Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Today's 2nd reading from Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians gives us part of Paul's response to what was a big and important question at the time: Does the Gospel permit marriage (and marital relations)? This may seem like an odd question to us, but there were different forms of dualism that were common in the times of the early church that said that the body was bad and anything having to do with the body (like sex) was bad. Combine this with the fact that the Gospel was totally new to the Gentile converts to Christianity, and they were trying to understand and live it completely. Combine this with the fact that Paul himself was celibate. In today's Gospel we talk about the gifts of marriage and celibacy and what St. Paul says about them.
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