While listening to a replay of Friday’s @PMadridShow this stirs in my soul: “NFP is NOT BIRTH CONTROL” but a learned gift for a time of great humility and sacrifice, it is an unselfish gift of sacrifice and a time of prayer and fasting during the fertile times of a woman’s cycle.
Podcast from Relevant Radio: Hour 2: Patrick Madrid Show July 28, 2023
NFP Planning Techniques/and Support https://hannahstears.org/2008/02/11/nfp-planning-techniques/ via @HannahsTears
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Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
I lay everything at the foot of the CROSS…
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This video is almost two years old, but it is also timeless as the Churches teachings never change. Thank you Jean Dimech-Juchniewicz and all those that are reaching out to couples facing infertility with a Catholic Approach.
God Bless YOU!
“Celebrate and reverence God’s vision of human sexuality.”
Discover Natural Family Planning
Natural Family Planning Awareness Week is a national educational campaign. The Natural Family Planning Program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops develops a poster each year with basic supportive materials. It is the individual dioceses however, that offer a variety of educational formats in the local church to focus attention on Natural Family Planning methods and Church teachings which support their use in marriage.
The dates of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week highlight the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (July 25) which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love and responsible parenthood. The dates also mark the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26), the parents of the Blessed Mother. For further information, contact nfp@usccb.org.
Wordless Sunday
Pope Benedict said : “The human and Christian dignity of procreation, consists not in a “product”, but in its connection with the conjugal act, an expression of love of the spouses, their union which is not only biological but also spiritual”.
He said: “This approach is moved not only from the desire to gift the couple a child, but to restore fertility to couple and with it all the dignity of being responsible for their own reproductive choices, to be God’s collaborators in the generation of a new human being. The search for a diagnosis and therapy is scientifically the correct approach to the issue of infertility, but it must also be respectful of the integral humanity of those involved. In fact, the union of man and woman in that community of love and life that is marriage, is the only “place” worthy for the call into existence of a new human being, which is always a gift”.
But what happens when even science cannot provide the answer to a couples desire for parenthood? Here the Pope warned against what he described as “the lure of the technology of artificial insemination” where “scientism and the logic of profit seem to dominate the field of infertility and human procreation, to the point of limiting many other areas of research”.
The Holy Father noted that “So I would like to remind the couples who are experiencing the condition of infertility, that their vocation to marriage is no less because of this. Spouses, for their own baptismal and marriage vocation, are called to cooperate with God in the creation of a new humanity. The vocation to love, in fact, is a vocation to the gift of self and this is a possibility that no organic condition can prevent. There, where science has not yet found an answer, the answer that gives light comes from Christ”.
For the complete article please go to the resource link below.
Resource: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-facing-infertility-with-care-and-hope
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