Keynote Speaker Glenn Stanton speaks at the JP2 Celebration & Fundraiser on March 7, 2020

In honor of St. John Paul II’s feast day (October 22), Katrina adapted a recent talk entitled, “Four Life-Changing Nuggets from St. JPII.” In this blog, she only covers 3 nuggets, but if you’d like a pdf of the whole talk, please email our JPII Resource Center assistant, Zelda ([email protected]) and request  a copy. And please “share” this on your social media sites so all can be blessed by St. JPII’s insights.

This week, we continue with our special edition of TOB Tuesdays with Part 2 of Katrina’s experience of the death of her father.  We’ve included the ending paragraph from last week so as to pick up where she left off. 

In this Special Edition of TOB Tuesdays, Katrina reflects on the recent birth of her first grandchild followed by the death of her father. We hope it speaks to your heart.

In today's TOB Tuesdays podcast, Katrina Zeno confesses a Church teaching she has struggled to follow: celebrating the Lord's Day as a day of rest. Follow the link below to read the gems, convictions, and how she ties it into Theology of the Body. 

Listen to today's TOB Tuesdays Podcast where Katrina breaks down what St. John Paul II told us, that the spiritual journey is like a great pilgrimage to the house of the Father.

Katrina explains the inseparable unity between the unitive and procreative meanings of the marital embrace through the lens of St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. 

In today's TOB Tuesdys podcast episode, Katrina shares her experience during the TOB Speaker Training she held in Australia and the variety of fruits and riches which flowed from it.

In today's TOB Tuesdays blog, Katrina Zeno relates Fr. Robert Spitzer's Four Levels of Happiness to a surprising conversation she had with her salsa partner.

Listen in as Katrina breaks down the four levels of happiness, plus an additional level she believes St. JPII would add!

"In John 6, Jesus says to his disciples, “It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is to no avail.” Sometimes we interpret this to mean the body is worthless, or even worse, that our bodily flesh is evil. Our flesh is the cause of sin.

But if the flesh were evil, how could Jesus command us to eat his flesh? For Jesus clearly states, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53). The flesh, then, in God’s eternal plan is not the source of evil, but of life. In fact, flesh, spirit, and life are connected – and the connection is communion."

Listen to today's TOB Tuesdays podcast to hear Katrina explain the difference between the soul and the spirit.