Theology of the Body Comes Alive in Long Marriages

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a particular moment many couples describe — somewhere around year eight or twelve or twenty — when something John Paul II wrote in his Wednesday audiences suddenly lands with a weight it never had before. You read the same sentence you half-absorbed at a pre-Cana weekend, and this time it stops you cold. Not because the words changed, but because you did.

That is not a coincidence. It is, in fact, exactly what the Theology of the Body predicts.

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Theology of the Body Comes Alive in Long Marriages