DATE: June 28, 2019

NFP Awareness Week—July 21–27, 2019

Albany, NY: “Love, Naturally!” is the theme of this year’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, a national educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to celebrate God’s vision for marriage and promote the methods of Natural Family Planning. 

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a general title for ethical, natural, safe and effective methods for both achieving and avoiding pregnancy in marriage. NFP methods teach couples how to observe and interpret the wife’s signs of fertility and infertility. In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, NFP methods “respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them and favor the education of an authentic freedom.” (CCC, no. 2370)

The dates of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week are: July 21–27, 2019. These dates highlight the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae vitae (July 25) which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, marriage, conjugal love and responsible parenthood.

PerpetuaLife Care, Inc. joins with the U.S. bishops in highlighting the benefits of NFP as moral methods to help married couples live God’s design for their marriages.  Several special activities will be held throughout the diocese, including: July 20, Catholic Families Support Group at Corpus Christi Church in Round Lake, NY from 5 - 7 pm, following the 4 pm Mass.  Babysitting provided.  

Want to learn more about the methods of NFP offered in our diocese? See, https://www.rcda.org/faith-formation-education/marriage-family-life or visit the NFP section of the USCCB website at: http://www.usccb.org/nfp/what-is-nfp/.

Local NFP providers can be viewed at: https://www.rcda.org/faith-formation-education/marriage-family-life; or call 518-453-6670. Don’t have time to attend an in-person class? Learn NFP in the comfort of your home by contacting one of the NFP providers listed at: http://www.usccb.org/nfp/nfp-distance-learning.cfm 

The Catholic Church invites all the faithful to embrace God’s plan for married love. Learn more about these beautiful teachings which support the use of NFP in marriage at: http://www.usccb.org/nfp/catholic-teaching. 

Please join the diocesan NFP team to spread the word about God’s design for married love and the gift of life as well as the methods of NFP! To contact the Albany Diocese visit: https://www.rcda.org/faith-formation-education/marriage-family-life; or call 518-453-6670..  To contact PerpetuaLife Care, Inc.  email:  [email protected] or visit us on Facebook.