Session IV: Original Solitude

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Session IV Original Solitude
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• In the beginning when God created the heavens
  and the earth, the earth was a formless void and
  darkness covered the face of the deep, while the
  spirit of God swept across the face of the
  waters
• - Genesis 11-2

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God
• - John 11

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• And Jesus answered the Pharisees Have you not
  read that the one who made them at the beginning
  made them male and female, and said, For this
  reason a man shall leave his father and mother
  and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
  become one flesh?
• - Matthew 194-5

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In understanding our

• beginnings

we begin to understand ourselves
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You have the answer
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He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of all creation. For in him were
created all things in heaven and on earth, the
visible and the invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or principalities or powers all things
were created through him and for him. He is
before all things, and in him all things hold
together. He is the head of the body, the
church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from
the dead - Colossians 115-18
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• And Jesus answered the Pharisees Have you
  not read that the one who made them at the
  beginning made them male and female, and said,
  For this reason a man shall leave his father and
  mother and be joined to his wife, and the two
  shall become one flesh?
• - Matthew 194-5

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God created man in his image in the divine
image he created him male and female he created
them. - Genesis 127
The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib
that he had taken from the man. When he brought
her to the man, the man said This one, at last,
is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh This
one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man'
this one has been taken. That is why a man
leaves his father and mother and clings to his
wife, and the two of them become one body. -
Genesis 2 22-24
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The regulation has not lost its force, even
though man has lost his primitive innocence. -
John Paul II
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Christ appeals to the beginning, and so that
beginning must still be accessible
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In the beginning, when God created the heavens
and the earth, the earth was a formless
wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while
a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God
said, Let there be light, and there was light.
God saw how good the light was. God
then separated the light from the darkness. God
called the light day, and the darkness he
called night. Thus evening came, and morning
followed--the first day. - Genesis 11
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• Then God said, Let us make humankind in our
  image, after our likeness So God created
  humankind in his image, in the image of God he
  created them male and female he created them.
• Genesis 126, 27

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Already in the light of the first phrases of the
Bible man cannot be either understood or
explained completely in terms of categories taken
from the world, that is, from the visible
complex of bodies. - John Paul II
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then the LORD God formed man from the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life and the man became a living
being. - Genesis 2 4,7
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The the LORD God said, It is not good that man
should be alone - Genesis 218
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The man gave names to all the cattle, all the
birds of the air, and all the wild animals but
none proved to be the suitable partner for the
man. - Genesis 220
As he begins to know the world, he begins to know
himself, and knows that he is different.
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The structure of the body permits (man) to be
the author of truly human activity. In this
activity the body expresses the person. - John
Paul II
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Conversion
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• QUESTIONS
• When was your conversion? At what point in time
  did you realize the repercussions of your
  original solitude, your unique, exclusive, and
  unrepeatable relationship with God himself?
• 2. How does reflecting upon mans original
  solitude open you up to the Word of God?