Welcome to another month of Spiritual Ponderings. This month, I feel is a pretty special month because I am going to be tackling a lot of different topics that don't make up a full month's worth of material. Each Spiritual Pondering this month will therefore be about something different.

Let us finish our closer look at what God has revealed marriage to be in His divine plan. We once again to turn to Christopher West’s book Good News about Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching for help with this. (Quotes from his book will be in bold and my commentary will be in regular font.)

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Let us continue our closer look at what God has revealed marriage to be in His divine plan. For help with this we will return to Christopher West?s book Good News about Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching. (Quotes from his book will be in bold and my commentary will be in regular font.)

Let us take a closer look at what God has revealed marriage to be in His divine plan. For help with this we will return to Christopher West?s book Good News about Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching. (Quotes from his book will be in bold and my commentary will be in regular font.) In this book Christopher West, using the Theology of the Body developed by John Paul II, answers many questions about the Church?s teaching on Marriage and Sex. The most important thing to remember about this teaching is simply this all of Catholic Morality (social, sexual, etc.) comes down to treat each person as a person and not as an object. For if love is wanting what is best for the other person even if that means a sacrifice on my part then the opposite of that is not hate but rather using another person for our pleasure even if it means hurting them.

Last month, I spent reflecting on the priesthood and as I began those reflections writing about some of the fears that I had in tackling that particular topic. As I wrote about the priesthood and the Five Priestly Identities that the Institute of Priestly Formation puts forward as the foundation to priestly identity, I could see how others could benefit from me living out those identities in a strong authentic way and I also began pondering about how much I have learned about priesthood from watching dedicated married couples live and how the commitment of religious and single people have encouraged me in my vocation. This all led me to remember a quote that I once read from Archbishop Chaput.