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Natural Family Planning Week 2015

7/20/2015

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July 19--25, 2015 is Natural Family Planning Week.  This is a week set aside to highlight the beauty of God's design for marriage as "an intimate partnership of life and love in an unique union between one man with one woman for the whole of life."  

The institution of marriage has certainly been under assault for a number of decades now.  The contraceptive mentality has led to promiscuity, infidelity, and a laundry list of other negative consequences.  This lifestyle of "hooking up" has been celebrated and propelled to the forefront of our minds from an oversexed media and entertainment culture.  Something good and holy has been demeaned by those who want no restrictions or limitations in their sexual pursuits.

Anytime we start messing with God's natural design for life we reap chaos. Humanae Vitae was ignored or ridiculed immensely back in 1968 when the encyclical was published on July 25.  It is time to take a fresh look at the wisdom contained in this document.  I would encourage each of you to read it in its entirety to see where our society has gone in the 47 years since its publication.  

http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html

Has adultery decreased in modern times?  Has the divorce rate declined?  Is the family better off now than it was fifty years ago?  Do some reading and research of your own to see why the Church teaches what it does.

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/


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