…we’re getting ready for the Epiphany! Sorry I didn’t post anything yesterday, but I was all out of ideas.
I was listening to an encore prestantation of Morning Air this morning on Relevant Radio. Fr. Thomas Loya was doing a year in review of the Theology of the Body. And he referenced his brother for the best comeback line. His brother was with his eight kids, and a woman remarked to him, “You know, you can get that fixed.” His brother replied without skipping a beat, “Why would I want to fix something that is obviously working?”
Fr. Loya challenges his audience to always put on the glasses of our faith and the Theology of the Body as we look at the world around us. We celebrate the Epiphany this weekend. We celebrate God’s total gift of self that he makes present to the wise men. As I started making our King cake, Therese and Fulton were playing chase around the kitchen and the house was filled with the most beautiful laughter that a parent could hear. And as I saw them become the childish delight of one another, I realized that as parents we too can make present the total gift of ourself – our one flesh union — to our children by giving them siblings. In giving them siblings, we give them our very flesh. But we also give them more than that, we give them another person to love and delight in. We show them that God’s love has no limit, as a parent’s love has no limit and their love has no limit.
