For this purpose, "The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it" (Gn 2:15). God wanted Adam and Eve to imitate His triune life of love. In his book, First Comes Love, Scott Hahn says God left something of His divine image for man to bring to completion. Thus, we image God most completely in the family. God inscribed the vocation of love in our bodies by creating us male and female and by calling us to become "one body" (Gn 2:24). "God created man in his image, in the divine image he created him, male and female he created them" (Gn 1:27). In Genesis we read that man is created in the image of God. We can get an idea how we share in God's loving exchange from the Book of Genesis. One of the most beautiful sentences in the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange" (221). This is the deepest mystery we can know about God. What are their needs, and how can fathers satisfy them? In order to reflect on this question, I need to start at the beginning. KNOXVILLE, TN (Catholic Online) - One of the most pressing questions for me on this Father's Day concerns the unmet needs of mothers, children and society, and a father's ability to satisfy those needs. Keywords: Father's Day, Catholic Church, Feminism, Michael Terheyden
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