Love and Responsibility Lecture Series

Where is the meeting point between sexual ethics and everyday life? What are the practical means of living a chaste life, dating, and answering the vocation to married life?

How can I live a happy marriage? What is natural family planning and why should I practice it? What are some very practical guidelines that will help us face together a life of marital union?

Sr Helena Burns FSP, from the famed blog "Hell Burns" discusses important questions: How do I know my vocation? Is God calling me to consecrated, married, or single life? How can I live Pope John Paul's vision of Purity in the Theology of the Body?

PORN- It is a huge problem. It is like having toxic, razor-sharp garbage stinking up your home waiting to affect your family. In this session Joe McClane gives an awesome talk on Shame and Continence.

Chastity, what has happened to you? You have been beat-up and misunderstood. Time for little bit of rehabilitation! Sr Anne Marie Walsh, the General Sister Servant of the SOLT Sisters talks about the Rehabilitation of Chastity.

Does love have to be ethical? Can it be "naughty" and still be love? Nope. Listen and discover why love, if it is true, must also be virtuous and noble, calling out what is best in man and woman. Steve Pokorny from tobministries.com talks about the Ethical Analysis of Love in this session.

Hey, she is hot! Oh, he is dreamy, he makes me feel so nice! Why are men so sensual and women so sentimental, and how can our masculine and feminine gifts bring us to a deeper sexual integration and Christian Maturity? Fr Thomas Loya, a byzantine Catholic priest and seasoned speaker on the Theology of the Body talks about the Psychological Analysis of Love.

What attracts you to each other and why? What is desire for another? Is sympathy healthy grounds for a friendship? What if the feeling is not mutual? Pope John Paul and our special guest speaker, Dr John Purk wrestle with these questions and more in this session.

Is the sexual urge wrong, or is it the center of our lives? Neither, it is a gift of God that may, with the help of God's grace, make us more like God. The correct interpretation of the sexual urge is neither Freudian nor puritanical, but Christ-centered. In this session Matthew Moore talks about the Interpretation of the Sexual Urge.

Why did God give you a sexual urge, what is it for, and how can you let it make you holy? How can you live a chaste life? How do guard yourself against being used by or using another. This session introduces the book and discusses the sexual urge, particularly the analysis of the verb, "to use."