Well, NFP awareness week concluded. No big celebrations around here, but I did go to a speaker last night at our parish. As anticipated, I was the only spouse-less person in the room. Well, except for Fr. Peter. ;)
Information wasn't really new, but it is certainly nice to hear it being talked about in an open forum. In fact, last week I heard (for the first time I can EVER remember) a priest talk about NFP during his homily. I was slack-jawed, but it was so well done (kudos to Fr. Ben at St. Thomas!).
I was tweeting about being solo at a sort of "couples/family" event last night and stumbled upon a blog I think some of my fellow blog readers will enjoy ... which is why I'm blogging about last night. Because it'd be strange to just post a blog link with nothing else, right?
So anyway, I landed on
THIS page. The different parts in her series are really great, so feel free to go poke around.
One quick note, I know there are some non-Catholic readers out there (sup, Gatsby Girl?), and I just want to say you do NOT have to be Catholic to use NFP. I have some friends who are decidedly not religious, but are sick of extra chemicals and hormones in their bodies who are giving it a whirl.
On a sort of related note ... I'm trying to decide if I should go to the
Family Life weekend/convention here in Salina. I simply can't
deciiiiiide. I listened one of Christopher West's tapes and was underwhelmed. But I'd read JPII's Theology of the Body prior to hearing West's tape. And I heard it was one of his first tapes out ... and that he's tamed down his "the average person shouldn't read Theology of the Body because it's too complex for them to understand" message.
Maybe there would be new/additional insight in a live presentation? Heck, if anyone wants to trek to town for the event, I'd gladly go along!
