Natural Family Planning: Living our God's Plan for your marriage

Natural Family Planning:

Living out God’s Plan for Your Marriage

Why does the Church want to encourage Natural Family Planning? Is it because she wants couples to have as many babies as humanly possible? No! In fact the Catholic Church encourages people to be both generous and responsible stewards over their fertility. In this view of "responsible parenthood" married couples carefully think about the just reasons they may have to postpone or avoid pregnancy. When making decisions about the number and spacing of children in their family, they weigh their responsibilities to God, each other, the children they already have, and the world in which they live.

Responsible parenthood is lived within the structures that God has established in human nature. The nature of sex, which is both life-giving (pro-creative) and love-giving (unitive), reflects a Divine plan. That is why the Church teaches that husband and wife must not actively intervene to separate their fertility from their bodily union. NFP methods respect the Divine plan and are at the service of authentic married love.

For more info about NFP education in our area, contact Peg Hensler ( [email protected]; 403-7156).