To Our Own Image and Likeness: A Catholic Layman's Insights on How Sexuality Symbolizes, Effects and

Proverbially setting aside the fig leaves of man's fear and shame, To Our Own Image and Likeness is an original work based on the belief that the greatest realities manifest themselves most perfectly in the day-to-day realities of a holy, happy, and fruitful marriage. Hence, this treatise represents a summary of God, Creation, and Redemption, explained specifically through the lens of romance; that is, the love that makes the world go around.

The reader will find herein a simple exposition on how the romantic love of a man and woman is created unto the same typology of Love between Lover and Beloved which defines God in the Blessed Trinity, and how the same resonates throughout all of human and divine reality. This work reconciles the primordial innocence of the man and woman in marital unity respectively with the glory of the Son and Holy Spirit in the Father. It demonstrates (1) the divine parallel between the Blessed Trinity and human nature's sexuality, (2) how the New Adam and Eve, Jesus and Mary, restore the eternal romance lost by the Old Adam and Eve's betrayal of God and each other, and (3) how the sacrament of marriage is a practical symbol and means even now for living and attaining the Eternal Marriage Feast of Heaven.