Beyond sex politics is God's unconditional love for every human being. Until we learn and accept to love as God loves, we suffer and cause suffering, but God kindly remains with us in it.

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There are facts and truths that "sexual libertarians" don't want society or public opinion to know, that even they don't want to know. To sum up those facts - accumulated in different human cultures and societies - we don't need sex to live a full life and be content. To define one's identity on the basis of our sexuality alone is to reduce our human value and dignity. I am a lot more than just my genitalia, and so are you. G.S.

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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best human efforts to make sense of our lives - and of our human sexuality in particular - also including the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium. The Church has been accumulating much valuable wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7 
Father Gilles Surprenant, priest & poustinik

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God hates no one; nor should we hate anyone. God has only compassion, understanding, and mercy for all his creatures, and especially for human beings. He offers to fill us with his Spirit; that we too might love one another with the same love and mercy of compassion.

Our Creator God cares for all his creatures and, with a "parent's love", cares for every human being from the very first man and woman to those who will come last to birth at the conclusion of human history. The character and love of God, revealed most graphically in the human life of Jesus of Nazareth, has been named by Him as the love of our heavenly Father. We, by believing in Jesus as the divine / human Son of God, have  become children of God by adoption through faith; as witnessed by Saint John and Saint Paul. The first artwork below is a creative representation giving a glimpse of what Jesus accepted, for love of us, to demonstrate the extreme love God has for us, to suffer in his human body. As well, the attitude Jesus manifests in this image is the serene peace of the King of Kings, the Messiah, who was pleased to accomplish the will of the Father for our redemption; so that we might come to know, to accept, and to love God who has loved us first. 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. Gospel of John 1:1-14

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. 5 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and insight 9 he has made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ, 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.         Paul to the Ephesians 1:3-10

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross. Paul to the Colossians 1:18

Mary - her Hebrew name is Myriam - was chosen by God to be the Mother of his divine Son, and once He had taken flesh within her womb by the Holy Spirit, she was to name Him Jesus - in Hebrew Yeshua, which means "God saves" - and Mary was warned by the prophet Simeon, an old man in the service of the Temple in Jerusalem, that a sword would pierce her soul. In subsequent years, Mary shared Jesus' sufferings, most dramatically in his passion and death. Now, in eternity, Mary continues to share in the ongoing "passion" of the "Body of Christ" made up of all those who are joined to Christ Jesus as their "Head". The following artwork is an artistic representation of Mary, now in the glory of the Father's "House" in Heaven, continues to care for the "Body of Christ" of which we are members. In particular, she is shown here caring for the innocents who, like those massacred in Bethlehem, continue to be killed because they are unwanted. Though we are at times unable or unwilling to care, God never stops caring, and Mary the Mother of Jesus cares with all the love of God dwelling within her. 

I thank and ask God to bless the "Two Patricks" for sharing with the world these sacred images and our Creator and Father's invitation to love God as given to us in Jesus, and to pray to the Most Holy Trinity for the repentance of sinners and for the salvation of the world from all evil, temptation, deception, and darkness that may oppress it. 

https://www.thetwopatricks.org 

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My purpose in these posts is to bring together significant and, where possible, representative echoes of our best efforts as human beings to make sense of our lives in general - and of our human sexuality in particular - and to also include the voice of Jesus Christ, the one Saviour of the world, and testimonies from his Church, such as through her teaching voice, the Magisterium; given that the Church has been accumulating the wisdom granted her by Almighty God since her foundation at Pentecost. In this way, wherever there is darkness in our human understanding, it will serve to highlight the bright and radiant truth, which is Jesus Christ: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also." John's Gospel 14:6-7     G.S.

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