Lenten Reflections from the TOB Institute

Last updated on: February 22, 2015 at 2:38 pm by Kathryn E.

Lenten Reflections from the TOB Institute 2015-02-22T14:38:18-04:00 Kathryn E.

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Editor’s Note: Here’s a nice reflection on today’s readings.]

If Joseph Pieper is correct in saying that to love someone means to say “It is good that you exist”, then these words of God are down right gut wrenching – for they represent a one hundred and eighty degree turn in the mind of God, who upon having created man, declared him to not just be good, but very good (cf. Gen 1:31). As we recall from the creation story, man’s fall from God’s favor and grace began with perhaps what seemed to be a small infraction – eating a piece of fruit that no one else was seemingly going to touch. From there sin quickly spiraled out of control to the point where God was so crushed by man’s disobedience that he would drown the earth with his tears.

Read the rest at the Theology of the Body Institute’s blog.

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Also, I wrote a post on this topic last year: Alterdiluvian Art: A Sampling of Superior Noahs.

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