Word Made Flesh - CYCLE C (2024-25): A Companion to the Sunday Readings (paperback)

THIS EDITION IS FOR CYCLE C, WHICH BEGINS ADVENT 2024!  ORDER THE FULL THREE-CYCLE SET HERE! One of the most influential movements in the Church today is centered on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB), of whose teachings Christopher West is the preeminent translator for a popular audience. In Word Made Flesh: A Companion to the Sunday Readings (Cycle C), Dr. Christopher West offers reflections on an entire liturgical cycle of Sunday Mass readings through the lens of TOB, providing a fresh way to process and act on the Good News by orienting our desires for union with God with our understanding of ourselves and our relationships with others. St. John Paul II’s TOB is most often framed as an extended catechesis on human sexuality and married love.  It is that, to be sure, but, as John Paul II observed, what we learn in the TOB “concerns the whole Bible” and the “whole mission of Christ.”  Wearing John Paul II’s “spousal lenses,” West takes us on a tour of the Sunday re