When Jesus Doesn’t Have a Body, Balancing Family Worldviews, and Cremation | ACW297

Questions answered this episode:

1. How can we love Jesus on earth when he doesn’t have a body? How can prayer feel more like a full relationship and not just long distance communication
2. I was homeschooled and raised in a close knit immediate family. We never spent much time with relatives or friends and my parents always sought to solely invest in each other and their children. On the other hand, my husband was raised in a large family where relatives and friendships were very important and he still likes to get together with them. He’s also always willing to get involved with our community and it is hard for me to relate to that. To me, his desire for connection outside our immediate family feels unnatural. How can we embrace these two apparently differing worldviews in our marriage?
3. Is cremation ever acceptable in the Catholic Church?

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John Paul II Legacy Foundation: [email protected]
Catechism of the Catholic Church #796

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