Friday, October 24, 2014

Reflection on May 30, 1984 – (paragraphs 1 and 2)

https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/jp2tb109.htm

Although the “language of the body” is the unspoken understanding we receive when we look at man, male and female, we attempt to express that language through words when we write love songs or poems, etc. SJPII is saying that, even if it seems archaic to us, the Song of Songs is the scriptural attempt to put this language of the body into words. I think many would disregard the Song of Songs as an important book in Scripture, but if you have followed what SJPII has said, this interpretation of the Song of Songs as the verbal translation of the unspoken language of the body, it takes on a very important meaning. That is because all that we have seen SJPII wrap up in the importance of this relationship, this union, the male and female sign of marriage, to our understanding of our relationship to God. That language of the body speaks to us, and as we saw, it prophesies to us, God’s words, teaching us what He wants for us and what we were created for from the beginning. If that union is so important for our understanding and that union speaks to us in the language of the body, the scriptural translation of that should speak to us about that union as much at Revelations speaks to us about the unspoken mysteries of the Eucharist and Mass.

It is an interesting reflection on the use of the word “sister” for the bride. If I understand it correctly, the use of the word “sister” is to bring about a sense of the unity that comes from the understanding that they are both man, created by God in the unique way humanity was brought forth. We go back to Genesis 2 and Eve creation, Adam sees her as like him, as compared to all other animals, thus related. But she is different, she is female, so she is sister. SJPII talks about the term “friend” is used at some points, to relate the understanding of the relationship, but he term “sister” is used more to give the understanding that these 2 are related, in the same sense that Adam and Eve were related in their creation and uniqueness from all other creatures, but also are different in that she is female.

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