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00:00How are you, my dear brothers and sisters? It's a pleasure to greet you again in this very interesting
00:24The course of the Footprints of Paul, following in the Footsteps of Paul, which I hope will also be for you
00:28It's been very, very interesting. We're practically at the end now.
00:35We still have to see this last part of this topic which presents us with the obstacles, those difficulties
00:43which we normally find, among many others, in Christianity, which is the part about money
00:49that attracts us, pulls us in, and can hold us back, and can prevent us from becoming
00:55Truly good disciples of the Lord. And another topic we started last week
01:00It's precisely the topic of sex. We'll continue with this today. Anyway, I'll tell you
01:06A small preview. We still have a very interesting topic to cover, two more chapters, where
01:13We're going to talk about eschatology. We're going to talk about the end times. We're going to talk about how
01:18How to prepare ourselves, how to be ready for it. And then we'll have a couple more chapters.
01:23in which we will talk a little about the great apostle who invites us to follow in his footsteps, but also
01:30to follow them in the apostolate, in being disciples, but also in being witnesses of our Lord.
01:37But anyway, continuing with the topic we started last week, in our chapter
01:43In the past, it depends on how you're looking at this course; well, we were seeing, we had arranged a date
01:50A very interesting point from the letter to the Corinthians, in which we see a relativism in Paul, where
01:56Well, speaking specifically about the topic of sex, he says, well, if you get married, then nothing happens.
02:02And if you don't get married, then neither, right? I mean, really the context in which he says
02:10These words refer to the imminent coming of the Lord in glory, because he thought it was already imminent.
02:16Right? This point made by the apostle Paul is always valid, because Jesus himself...
02:24He's told us on several occasions, we don't know the day or the time. So, with this
02:33This clearly illustrates the relativism that a Christian should have towards everything, but
02:40always keeping Christ as the element of relativity. We must be careful in this because
02:49The problem with today's world, brothers, is that everything is relative. But what's happening today? That today
02:57It's relative to the person themselves. So we center everything on ourselves. And so, while
03:06Christ invites us to place him at the center and as the truth of everything; the world invites us to do the same.
03:14Let us be that center and point of truth. A thing will be good, the world says today, if it benefits me, and bad,
03:23If it's not right for me. Brothers, this isn't how it is. It can't be like this. This can't be for us.
03:30As Christians, we have Christ as our point of reference and truth. Therefore, it is
03:38It's important to work on getting rid of everything, so that even while having it, we live as if we don't.
03:46We would have it, as Saint Paul says. But it is a relativism that has to do with Christ, as he said.
03:51says St. Ignatius. He tells us, speaking for example of possessions and this indifference, that
03:58Indifference is an availability, an abandonment, but not in the sense of laziness or negligence, but
04:06To surrender ourselves into God's hands. That is, a detachment from our own desires in order to desire what God wills.
04:16God wills it. Indifference is the willingness to know God's will and follow it.
04:24I'm a taxable person, whatever you want, whatever you want. Nobody is indifferent, but we must
04:32to become indifferent. The saint said, Saint Ignatius said, if being poor I can serve you better,
04:43I want to be poor. But if being rich allows me to serve you better, then I want you to give me wealth.
04:50If I am more useful to you when I am healthy, I want you to give me health. But if I can serve you better when I am sick,
05:01So, I want to be sick. You see? This is how he practically referred to what he calls the holy
05:09indifference. Because everything ultimately ends up being related to God, and that's why one of his phrases that
05:19We know greatly, ad mayorem Dei gloriam. That is, I will always choose what gives the most glory to God.
05:28Our Lord. This is what can truly make us builders of the kingdom. Saint Paul
05:38He is the perfect model of this, and therefore, brothers, he is worthy of imitation, and that is why we have been following in his footsteps.
05:47Therefore, we must ask for this indifference. We must ask it of God so that we may be happy in everything.
05:53circumstance, knowing that God is our loving provider. If He gives me poverty, then blessed be God.
06:02And if it brings me wealth, then thank God. It's okay. Learn to live happily. Today the world,
06:11If he doesn't wear the dove, if he doesn't wear the crocodile, if he doesn't wear designer clothes, he doesn't feel good.
06:17He feels bound. We talked a lot about all these bonds in our first course. God us
06:25He wants freedom, and Saint Paul invites us to live this freedom. Saint Paul invites us, or invites us to...
06:33community of Colosas and with it, obviously, all of us to seek what is valuable and to have what is valuable.
06:41Furthermore, it only has value if we refer to Christ. Notice what it tells us.
06:49Look at your Bible and let's go to Colossians 3:1-5.
06:53The apostle tells us, if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is.
07:11Christ, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
07:19because they have died and their life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, our life,
07:29That is,
07:38My brothers, the dead man no longer aspires to anything; he is dead, and this must be the condition of everything.
07:48Christian, therefore yours and mine, ours. It is therefore necessary to continue our process of dying to the Christian.
07:57world in order to achieve true freedom. You will remember how much we have talked about freedom.
08:05In our first chapter, in our first course. Why? Because without it, man cannot know
08:12The kingdom cannot be happy. Therefore, we need to be completely free from everything, from all attachment.
08:24free from all ties. Especially, as we have seen, regarding economic matters, possessions,
08:31of the things that end up clogging us up and preventing us from fully participating in the life that God has given us
08:39He offers in his kingdom. So now, to conclude this topic of attachments, of things, of the
08:48assets, people, and all of this that prevents us from moving forward. In other words, leaving all of this as a
08:55It's a relative matter. It's good to have a car. Well, if it gives more glory to God, I want to.
08:59To have it, and if not, then no. Or this mug, or this gadget, or my Bible—well, no, if it brings him glory.
09:05That's great. And if not, well, no problem. I mean, it's no big deal. It's no big deal. Getting used to letting go of things that
09:16Let them flow. Remember that true poverty is having without holding on. It's letting things pass, like a river.
09:24which continues onward, filling with fertility and life all the places it passes.
09:31We each have to be ourselves. We are not prey, we are a river through which all flow.
09:38All possessions, all things, and everything serve for the good and glory of the Lord. Now it is our turn to speak.
09:45on another topic that is fundamental in the life of a Christian and which is a very current topic
09:52Which, as we will see, was no less important in the time of Saint Paul. And well, that every Christian
10:02You must keep in mind that it is the topic of sexual life, which is a topic that has many aspects.
10:09edges we must always be aware of. This topic was extremely important for
10:16Saint Paul, especially in the community of Corinth, where the topic of sex was, as we say, a whole
10:25The topic was quite a problem. As we saw at the time, they were only attached to the temple of Aphrodite.
10:34The goddess of sex; there were more than a thousand prostitutes in Paul's time. More than a thousand prostitutes registered.
10:42The idea, then, was—they were a kind of priestess—to have sexual relations with one of these
10:49women, and that constituted us; it was a pleasing offering to the goddess Aphrodite, and she helped us.
10:57so that we could have a large number of offspring, which was important in time because that way
11:02We would have more warriors, more children, more harvests, and so on. So, well, obviously this
11:08It generated a series of recommendations, admonitions, and catechesis on the subject of sexuality that now
11:17We collect and hope, because I believe they will surely be of great support in our
11:24Christian path in this following in the footsteps of the apostle.
11:28Among the elements that we could propose or highlight, since obviously as
11:38You will understand, as it is a broad topic, as I said, with many facets. The first element
11:44What we must take into account is the apostle's concept of the human body. He says
11:52For him, the temple is our body; that is, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Our body
12:02It is the temple of the Holy Spirit. This is so important that he mentions it twice in his letter.
12:10to the Corinthians. Let's first see what he tells us in chapter 3. It is the first letter of
12:18Corinth, chapter 3, the verses, we are going to go to verse 16 and we will read these verses 16 and 17.
12:27Says
12:28Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone
12:38Destroy the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy and that is what they are.
12:48You. That is, brothers, your body is a temple where God dwells.
12:56And we have to take care of absolutely everything. In this first section that I want to discuss with
13:05You prioritize the care of the body, which is important since God dwells within it. Therefore,
13:14It tells us that we can't mistreat it. We must take care of it with exercise, with a good
13:22Nutrition, and removing everything that hinders it. Let's not even talk about vices, alcohol, and other things.
13:29Things. The same cigarette. Today, cigarette packs have forced tobacco companies to put it there.
13:38Photographs of people with cancer. In short, truly terrible photographs, and the people
13:46He sees them anyway and keeps buying them. My own father died of emphysema caused by excessive consumption of them.
13:56tobacco. So, we are temples, and truly today we see that temples, with all that has been done,
14:04medicine, because today we have a temple that can last a long time, but if we mistreat it we will not get to
14:11nowhere, right? I mean, with this text the apostle confirms the unity of body and soul that
14:19Our bodies are fundamentally important in our spiritual life. Be careful with penances.
14:28Be careful, I've already talked about this a bit. They're important, they're important, but they have to be done
14:35always keeping in mind this principle of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. If we do not take
14:43Keep this in mind, brothers, this can lead to serious problems for our bodies. He was saying,
14:50As I've mentioned before, Saint Thomas said, it's the same to kill yourself by jumping from a battlement.
14:58True, from a tower that starves him to death. Eventually he dies, or by giving him another kind of
15:06penances. It is very important that we always discuss this with our spiritual director and see
15:11that things are proceeding according to God's will. Well, let's leave this first part here.
15:17We'll see you in a few minutes to continue our class. Until then.
15:28Thank you!