Theology of the Body - Purity of Heart

And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. + Genesis 2:25 The fact that they ‘were not ashamed’ means that the were united by awareness of the gift; they were mutually conscious of the nuptial meaning of their bodies, in which the freedom of the gift is expressed and all the interior riches of the person as subject are manifested. + Pope John Paul II Purity of heart connects a person’s subjective desires (ethos) with the objective order of love (ethics). * * * Shame enters precisely when man and woman lose purity of heart. Because of this loss, they fail to respect “the interior riches of the person as subject” and come to look upon the person as an object to be used. Because of this loss of purity, the demands of love no longer spontaneously well up from “within” man. In fact, they often appear now as a burden imposed from “without.” + Christopher West, Theology of the Body Explained

• Наташа Хенстридж (Natasha Henstridge)
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens