God Gave Us a Blueprint for a Healthy Life | The 7 Days of Creation

Faithful & Authentic: The All Saints Parish Podcast · Sep 23, 2026 · 19m

Does the Catholic Church care more about your soul than your body?

Fr. Jonathan Meyer begins this homily with a pop quiz—and an answer that may surprise you.

Christianity is profoundly physical. The Word became flesh. Jesus died and rose in His body. We receive His Body in the Eucharist. And St. Paul tells us to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice to God.

So how we care for our bodies matters.

In this homily, Fr. Meyer looks at the seven days of Creation and proposes a fascinating way of seeing them as a blueprint for living more fully as the human beings God created us to be:

Day 1 —…