Thankyou Rachel. This was a beautiful "vent". Much needed one. I am from Kerala, India. I was raised in the Christian Orthodox faith. My mother had a Jesus encounter during a Catholic retreat in her college days and thus began a deep relationship with Jesus. She taught us 4 kids the Rosary, about the Saints and all the lovely things about the Catholic faith. One major thing missing was sexuality and the beauty of it. She believes that sex was created as a result of Man's sinful nature and not God's original plan. I recognise that everything you mentioned as purity culture was the basis of my mother's idea of sexual purity or at least that's my understanding of her. This has harmed all of us especially us girls (we are 2 girls and 2 boys). We both have wounds with respect to sexuality, desire, body image and self love. God bless my mother. She did the best she could. But this podcast has really helped me navigate everything I've been taught about sexuality and everything I've internally perceived about it. I genuinely believe that sex is not God's 2nd option for humans but a mysterious way of expressing his divine love between husband and wife. And the catholic faith teaches just that ( correct me if I'm wrong). Thankyou Rachel. Thankyou Magdala. Thankyou Jesus. ❤
Thankyou Rachel. This was a beautiful "vent". Much needed one. I am from Kerala, India. I was raised in the Christian Orthodox faith. My mother had a Jesus encounter during a Catholic retreat in her college days and thus began a deep relationship with Jesus. She taught us 4 kids the Rosary, about the Saints and all the lovely things about the Catholic faith. One major thing missing was sexuality and the beauty of it. She believes that sex was created as a result of Man's sinful nature and not God's original plan. I recognise that everything you mentioned as purity culture was the basis of my mother's idea of sexual purity or at least that's my understanding of her. This has harmed all of us especially us girls (we are 2 girls and 2 boys). We both have wounds with respect to sexuality, desire, body image and self love. God bless my mother. She did the best she could. But this podcast has really helped me navigate everything I've been taught about sexuality and everything I've internally perceived about it. I genuinely believe that sex is not God's 2nd option for humans but a mysterious way of expressing his divine love between husband and wife. And the catholic faith teaches just that ( correct me if I'm wrong). Thankyou Rachel. Thankyou Magdala. Thankyou Jesus. ❤