BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//EN TZID:Asia/Singapore X-WR-TIMEZONE:Asia/Singapore BEGIN:VEVENT UID:364@cepcommunity-sg.org DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20240416T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20240604T213000 DTSTAMP:20240415T024953Z URL:https://cepcommunity-sg.org/events/mbpc/ SUMMARY:My Body's Personal Compass - by Fr Garcia (Full - registration clos ed) DESCRIPTION:\nThis is an external event\, to register please scan QR Code b elow.\n\nDates: Tuesdays (Apr 16-Jun 4)\nTime: 19:30-21:30\nVenue: Cana\, 55 Waterloo St.  Level 3\nOut of My Personal Compass comes My Body's Pers onal Compass. If our human nature is the source of our moral compass\, wha t do our human bodies\, which belonging to our nature\, have to contribute to our moral compass?\nWe propose 99 ideas that try to clarify the answer to 10 fundamentals questions regarding the moral contribution of the huma n body.\nSyllabus:\n1. Apr 16: ##1-17\n2. Apr 23: ## 18-32 \n3. Apr 30: # # 33-47\n4. May 7: ## 48-52\n5. May 14: ## 53-64\n6. May 21: ## 65-78\n7. May 28: ## 79-86\n8. Jun 4: ## 87-99\n \;\nI. Why is sex changing?\n1.   Sexual morality has shifted in the name of human dignity.\n2.     T here are four problems with sexual morality today.\n3.     Biological sex has become irrelevant.\n4.     We are obsessed with consequences.\ n5.     Human nature has disappeared.\n6.     Technology split sex from love\, life and responsibility.\n7.     Ideology has made the sp lit desirable.\n\nII. What are we missing?\n8. The body is something we a re\, not something we have.\n9. The intimacy of my body stands for my inti macy\n10. My body communicates with its own natural language\n11. The inti macy of my body communicates my intimacy.\n12. Persons and what is persona l are not objects to be used as means to other ends.\n13. Treating what is personal as an object or as a means degrades it.\n14. What is intimate is necessarily personal.\n15. The intimacy of the body is always intimate an d personal and must never be treated as an object or used as means to othe r ends.\n16. My decisions make me (MPC #2).\n17. Decisions that treat the intimacy of the body as an object or means to other ends degrade the perso n.\n\nIII. How to get the full picture?\n18. We are naturally either male or females.\n19. Male and female are equal in dignity but different in nea rly every other sense.\n20. Ignoring or neglecting either the equality or the differences is unjust discrimination.\n21. Natural sexual attraction i s personal\, not only biological.\n22. Sexual desires desire for the total ity of the other person.\n23. Lust is a lack in sexual desires.\n24. Roman tic love is exclusive because it is total.\n25. If sexual desires are not subordinated to love\; love will be subordinated to sexual desires.\n26. T o be honest\, sexual desires need education.\n\nIV. How to love sexually?\ n27.  Casual is not smart\, even in sex.\n28.  Premarital sex is not h onest enough.\n29.  Consuming pornography is being consumed by pornograp hy.\n30.  Masturbation is normal\, normally wrong.\n31.  Love does not justify sex\; truth does.\n32.  Sex is fully honest only within marriag e.\n33.  Love does not justify marriage\; commitment does.\n34.  The v ows of will make marriage\; not the will of the majority.\n35.  Marriage is a natural union\, we have no choice.\n36.  Marriages deserve a socia l institution.\n\nV. Why get married?\n37.  Marriage is good even when m arriages are bad.\n38.  Marriage is good because it brings fidelity\n39.   Marriage is good because it brings union\n40.  Marriage is good beca use it procreates\n41.  Marriage creates the stage for true human fulfil lment.\n42.  The sexual acts communicates fidelity\, union and life.\n43 .  Therefore\, the sexual act makes marriage more than any other human a ct.\n44.  Trial marriages don’t work.\n45.  Divorce is anti-marriage \n46.  Polygamy is not respectful\n47.  Even consented adultery is mor ally wrong.\n\n\n\n\nVI. What about the LGBT+ people?\n48.  Identity is a matter of reality\; not choice.\n49. People who experience same-sex attra ction deserve the same respect as everyone else\, no more\, no less.\n50.   Not all sexual acts are the same.\n51.  Not all sexual unions are the same.\n52.  An inclusive culture includes truth and love.\n\n\n\nVII. H ow could technology help to have or avoid having children?\n53.  It is w rong to discard embryonic people to have more people.\n54.  Spouses shou ld procreate only with each other.\n55.  Humans should be procreated\; n ot made.\n56.  Technology should help persons\; not substitute them.\n57 .  Couples may not want children\; but there should never be an unwanted person.\n58.  Respecting the spouse is respecting their bodies and thei r fertilities.\n59.  The pill promised heaven but failed to deliver.\n60 .  Abortion is the ultimate birth control.\n61.  Abortion is taboo for the wrong reasons.\n62.  We have dignity because of what we are\; not b ecause of what we do.\n63.  All humans have equal\, basic dignity and ri ghts\, embryonic people included.\n64.  Using embryonic people is demean ing.\n\nVIII. How do medicine and technology mix?\n65.  Medicine restore s\; technology manipulates.\n66.  Medicine needs a profession that profe sses.\n67.  Health professionals are stewards\; not masters.\n68.  Fre e\, informed consent is some times necessary but insufficient.\n69.  The rapeutic research has ethical limits.\n70.  Non-therapeutic research nee ds more ethical limits.\n71.  Plastic surgery might be therapeutic\; van ity surgery is not.\n72.  Transgender surgeries don’t change sex.\n73.   We may engineer organisms but not people.\n74.  Cloning people for h ealth is also death.\n75.  The body is a good of the person\; not for th e person.\n76.  Donating non-vital organs might be charitable.\n77.  N ever kill to donate.\n78.  If the body is alive\, the person is alive.\n \nIX. How to care at the end of life?\n79.  Never kill\, always care. Cu re when proportionate.\n80.  Letting die may or may not be killing.\n81.   Proportionate therapies are obligatory.\n82.  Disproportionate thera pies may be withheld or withdrawn.\n83.  We judge treatments\; not peopl e.\n84.  Quality of life is good but insufficient.\n85.  To be or not to be\, should be the question.\n86.  Plan for the end of life responsib ly\; not dogmatically.\n\nX. What does God have to do with sex?\n87.  Go d has stamped his being in the sexual identity of our bodies.\n88.  The stamp has been disfigured.\n89.  The human body needs redemption too.\n9 0.  Marriages are not made in heaven.\n91.  The church is the sacramen t of Jesus\, who is the sacrament of God.\n92.   When Christians marry\ , they make a sacrament.\n93.  Spouses should submit mutually.\n94.  T he sexual act is a sacramental expression of marriage.\n95.  Christian s pouses are called to be prophets.\n96.  Christian spouses are called to be leaders.\n97.  Christian spouses are called to be priests.\n98.  Ce libacy for the kingdom is sacramental but not a sacrament.\n99.  Love L ife\, live Love! 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