On Thursday, December 2 at 7:30 pm, The Augustine Club
sponsored a lecture by Fr. Bob Connor entitled "Understanding Sex in
Light of the Holy Trinity."  Fr. Bob said that the key to
understanding sex is the reveald truth that man and woman were created
in the image of God, who is not a monolith but a triplicity of persons
whose very being is relationality ("gift") to each other.  As the body
is the self-expression of the spirit, sex and the sexual act--properly
understood as the COMPLETE giving of oneself (including gametes) in
the context of the irrevocable committment of matrimony--are an
imaging of the persons of the Trinity and of the total self-giving of
Christ on the cross.  Thus, "there cannot be any separation between
love making and life giving," as happen in in vitro fertilization,
contraception, and other sexual perversions.  At least twenty people
attended the talk, which lasted about an hour with about twenty-five
minutes for questions afterward.  Even after the event was officially
over, most of the audience remained for some time to ask further
questions.