Nothing Says it more Clearly:
LOVE = CHILDREN


Valentine's Day

Nothing says love like being open to having children with someone.
Just think about it for a minute.
A person who is willing to conceive a child with their partner is saying with their whole body, "I'm willing to have a child with you. That means I love everything about you so much that I want another person to exist who is like you. I want to see your eyes and your smile in my child. I want someone who walks like you, talks like you, makes decisions like you. I want to help create someone who's made in your image." That's pretty darn romantic.
Conceiving a new life also is a profound commitment to doing whatever it takes so that this new, unique "image" of their beloved flourishes in the world. When partners commit to having a child, they are signing up for a lot of self-sacrifice, which is the heart of real love. Blessed John Paul II describes love as desiring and acting towards the good of another human being. Parents have to do this constantly, from the moment they know their child exists. Babies are hard work. Little Children are hard work. Teenagers are hard work. Even adult children are hard work sometimes.
However, all of this work is completely worth it, because you're nurturing in your child the good you see in your spouse. A person who has a child with someone is signing up for a lifetime commitment to putting their needs second to their children's needs, and to working with their partner to build a life for themselves and their children. That's not just pretty romantic, that's swooningly, deliciously, heart-breakingly, wonderfully romantic.

15 Awesome Resources to Spark Love

Cardinal Egan presents a beautiful picture of an unborn, 20 week old baby and challenges the viewer to see what is plainly displayed: an innocent human being whom our laws have unjustly put in danger of being killed.

Just Look
Author: Egan, Edward Cardinal
Code: PJLE
Originally: $0.35 Price: $0.28

How effective are contraceptives used after sexual intercourse and what problems are connected with them.

Originally: $0.35 Price: $0.28

Mary Beth Bonacci takes chastity education very seriously, making it her life’s work. The people (mostly young adults) she has spoken to have asked her thousands of questions. In this book she gathers hundreds of these and delivers witty, convincing and workable answers. This book is hard to put down.

Real Love
Author: Bonacci, Mary Beth
Code: brla
Originally: $12.95 Price: $10.36

In a question and answer format, Catholic Answers apologist and author Jason Evert, discusses every aspect of chastity. He emphasizes that saying no to premarital sex is saying yes to authentic love. Using anecdotes drawn from stories he has heard in his speaking to youth and his own experience, Evert writes clearly and persuasively on the questions about dating, relationships, sexuality, and chastity that young people have asked him wherever he speaks.

If You Really Loved Me
Author: Evert MA, Jason
Code: BIYR
Originally: $13.95 Price: $11.16

“Single women often feel left alone to find answers to their deep questions about love and intimacy. Some hang out and hook up, hoping for love. At some point, every woman needs reassurance that she—and her standards—are not the problem. Here the single woman will find 21 strategies to help her raise the bar—instead of sitting at it, hoping for Mr. Right.”

How To Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul
Author: Evert, Crystalina and Jason
Code: BHFS
Originally: $9.85 Price: $7.88

Today’s society puts tremendous pressure on couples to have only one or two children. But our Creator commands husbands and wives to “be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 9:1). Ten Great Reasons to Have Another Child contains strong persuasion for families to welcome one more child.

Originally: $2 Price: $1.60

Our culture has gone far astray in thinking of children as a curse. The Blessings of Children, taken from the book Called to Give Life, shows beautifully and poetically just what a blessing children are.

The Blessings of Children
Author: Adams M.A., Jason T
Code: PTBC
Originally: $0.35 Price: $0.28

Only God’s amazing grace could have intervened to save the marriages of the
twelve couples whose stories are told in this book. Their testimonies provide
hope and inspiration for those who are struggling in their own marriages, and
show the beauty of God’s love and mercy to everyone.

Amazing Grace for Married Couples
Author: Armstrong, Patti
Code: BAGC
Originally: $12.99 Price: $10.39

Based on Proverbs 31, Beloved and Blessed gives more tools for building marriages. Includes “developing intimacy” and “responsible parenthood”, with discussion questions for married couples or group reflection.

Beloved and Blessed
Author: Hahn, Kimberly
Code: BBEL
Originally: $14.99 Price: $11.99

A beautiful white Onesie that states, “I’m a Piece of God’s Love”. Size: 18 mos. 19-25 lbs –

Originally: $9.00 Price: $7.20

In Life-Giving Love Kimberly Hahn takes us to God’s wonderful plan for the family in the sexual teachings of the Catholic Church.

Life-Giving Love
Author:
Code: BLGL
Originally: $13.99 Price: $11.19

Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) supplies the foundation for healthy and healing male-female relationships. As Pope, he took this same body of thought and built his magnificent Theology of the Body. This is a challenging book, but extremely rewarding.

Love and Responsibility
Author:
Code: BLAR
Originally: $15.00 Price: $12.00

John Paul II’s philosophical masterpiece Love and Responsibility has been called THE great book of the 20th Century. It takes our understanding of human sexuality and of male-female relationships to levels not previously experienced outside the Bible. ES takes the philosophical language of Love and Responsibility and opens it up for us with wonderful clarity and effectiveness.

Men, Women and the Mystery of Love
Author: Edward Sri
Code: BMWM
Originally: $12.99 Price: $10.39

The story of St Gianna Berretta Molla, a modern-day wife, mother, and physician, who fully engaged her faith in her medical practice. In 1962 she faced the agonizing choice between saving her own life and that of her unborn child, and chose to save her child. She is a wonderful reminder that saints still walk among us.

No Greater Love
Author:
Code: KNGL
Originally: $3.95 Price: $3.16

In Of Human Life, Archbishop Chaput explains what married love is and provides advice on valuing both the unitive and the procreative aspect of married life. For priests and laity he answers specific questions and provides powerful encouragement to follow the teaching of Humanae Vitae.

Of Human Life
Author: Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Cap
Code: KOHL
Originally: $2 Price: $1.60

The Splendor of Love contains the insights of Pope John Paul II applied to the
issues of marriage, family, contraception, human life, and homosexuality.

The Splendor of Love
Author: Schu LC, Walter J
Code: BSOL
Originally: $19.95 Price: $15.96