The dates of NFP Awareness Week highlight the anniversary of encyclical
Humanae Vitae (July 25) from Pope Paul VI and the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26).
One More Soul joins with the bishops in highlighting the need to promote to all women and families the benefits of NFP. Married couples who use NFP report many benefits including: better communication between spouses, increased patience,
increased emotional maturity, deeper understanding of each other's bodies, and growth in respect for God's gift of fertility. Resources for celebrating and promoting
NFP Awareness Week in your area can be found at One More Soul website
www. One More Soul.com. For more information, contact nfp@usccb.org.
Here is everything you wanted to tell your married child, and everything you wish your parents had told you about marriage. First Comes Love is a collection of the very best the Church has to offer to help couples have long and very happy marriages. Drawing from Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Christopher West, Emily Sederstrand, Steve Wood, St John Chrysostom, and many others, this publication offers articles, quotes, personal testimonies, graphs, prayers, and recommendations. Subjects include finding the right mate, the blessings of children, the value of Natural Family Planning, how chastity works inside of marriage, and infertility; everything a young couple needs to get their marriage onto a solid foundation.
One More Soul’s English Pamphlet Packet contains one each of the pamphlets published by One More Soul and other company’s on topics such as contraception, natural family planning, breast cancer, chastity, and abortion a total of 45. A great way to find radically pro-life resources for your ministry. A $15.30 value.
Within the Theology of the Body, John Paul II composed wonderful teachings on the Song of Songs and on the story of Sarah and Tobias from the book of Tobit. In this book Christopher West takes these treasures and embeds them in stories of people he has known who received healing for their distorted sexual values. This is the best book on sexuality I have ever read.
This novel tells the intertwining stories of the lives of Emily Greer and her great-grandmother Katherine. Well-written and hard to put down. it is about the love of husbands and wives, the love of parents for their children, and the agonizing moral choices we sometimes face. It is also about real people—not perfect people but ones who are trying—and about being witnesses to a culture of life in a world shadowed by the culture of death.
The One More Soul Booklet Packet contains one each of the booklets published by One More Soul covering topics such as contraception, breast cancer, teen abstinence, and Natural Family Planning. This is a great way to learn radical pro-life strategy. A $15.45 value. 1. Breast Cancer, Abortion and the Pill 2. The Christian View of Sex: A Time For Apologetics, Not Apology 3. Discerning Just and Serious Reasons for Postponing Pregnancy 4. How The Pill & Other Contraceptives Work 5. Of Human Life 6. Sensible Sex 7. Teaching Fertility Awareness class materials 8. Why is Contraception Immoral? 9. How Faith Communities Can Create an NFP Culture 10. Parish Talk on Contraception 11. Civilization of Love Tools 12. Postfertilization Effects of Oral Contraceptives and Their Relationship to Informed Consent.
A series of articles published by Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, encouraging his priests and married couples to enthusiastically accept and promote Natural Family Planning, and to understand and reject the evil of contraception. This is a great read for any pro-family warrior who needs a little encouragement. (Don’t we all!) It also clearly and forcefully lays out just why and how we need to spread the Church’s life-giving teaching about family life. For decades Contraception has been a powerfully divisive issue for the Catholic Church. Bishop Olmsted sheds light on this difficult topic from his wide pastoral experience, from theology, and from history. He urges married couples and pastors to courageously embrace the Church’s wisdom about sexuality.
Practically speaking, widespread use of contraception has led directly to massive increases of divorce and abortion. Personal union and yearning for fertility are written physically into the structure of sexual relations, and shutting down one of these aspects hurts the whole relationship.There are practical, workable steps we can take to regain the overflowing life that God desires for us.
In this talk, Jason speaks to a group of engaged couples on the benefits of using chastity within marriage. Full of vital information, yet filled with characteristic humor, Jason’s talk will help every couple, whether newly engaged or already married. The use of Natural Family Planning (NFP) within marriage is beautifully discussed.