Around These Parts, Every Week is NFP Awareness Week

Last updated on: August 1, 2015 at 8:10 pm by Jennifer Fitz

Around These Parts, Every Week is NFP Awareness Week 2015-08-01T20:10:34-05:00 Jennifer Fitz

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

So I spent NFP Awareness Week cleaning my house. Not just ordinary cleaning, but epic, Biblically-proportioned it’s as if we’re trying to get our life in order cleaning*.* Not done yet, but one can only make so many decluttering decisions before it’s necessary to run away and ride roller coasters all day, which I also did. There are scripture verses about this.

But fear not, we do NFP all year around here. Technically the bishops do, too, but probably they try not to think about it more than one week in 52, and if I were a bishop I’d keep it that way myself. Oh, look at my chart, it says I still have the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders. Guess I’ll abstain again today. Sure, bishop-NFP is simple, but that’s no reason to be jealous.

***

I endeavor to continue my erratic writing behavior into the near future, as I have to complete my Stage One Urgent Sorting and Filing Decisions by Thursday morning so we can have our living room back. Fortunately other bloggers have stepped in to fill the gap.

For some of my favorite links below you’ll have to put on your thinking cap to figure out the NFP connection, but I promise you there is one:

1. For all your general-purpose NFP Awareness needs, check out NFP Aware. Here’s the link to their latest infographic: #ditchtherisk linked and shared below. You can listen to NFP instructor and the infographic’s author Kristin Putman and her husband radio host Timothy Putnam discussing NFP and the risks of contraception on the Outside the Walls radio show. Check out the whole Outside the Walls blog, loads of cool stuff there.

2. Simcha Fisher writes “On Complaining Honestly About NFP.” With links to me and Dr. Greg Popcak. I want to be Simcha when I grow up. I did once post a poem on the wall, so I’m getting there.

3. Evangelical Anglican philosophy student Scott Reeves decides to answer the horrible claims of the “patriarchy” movement with a thorough and well-reasoned rebuttal. (Longtime readers will recall I went for decisively emphatic and left it at that. Scott fills in the blanks, and he’s the man for it.)

4. Salim Furth takes a look at a book comparing American childhood poverty in 1959 and today, and notices a suspicious difference: In those days, poor children grew up in families with no money, in these days they grow up in money with no family. The results are radically, direly different.

5. Morgan McFarlin writes on the merits of learning NFP for the single-and-celibate young woman. Hint: It’s not Catholic birth control, and there are good reasons to consider learning more about how your body works.

6. Thanks to Michael Liccione for the link to this study on whether access to contraception reduces teen pregnancies.

7. This isn’t strictly speaking NFP, it’s just cool: A billionaire Catholic layman notes a need and decides to build a beautiful silent-retreat center in the midwest. Those of us with sufficient awareness, of course, can think of ways such a thing might come in useful for the abstaining couple.

8. You want to bring the best normal-people-compatible chastity program going to your diocese? Check out Family Honor. It only takes one male and one female presenter to bring the most important program (the one for parents-only) to your area. The preparation is top notch, and the programs are the most organized, professionally-run thing you’ll ever encounter — absolutely a dream to present for them, because you can walk on and go. If you aren’t the next Jason Evert but you still have teenagers in your diocese who need family-centered chastity programs, Family Honor is your new best friend.

Image courtesy of the NFP Aware #ditchtherisk. Click through for more information, including permission to print the poster for educational purposes (no permission to edit – use it how you found it).

Chastity

It's All Catholic

Previous Post

July 16, 2015

Where Are You Going, Catholic Church?

Next Post

August 2, 2015 Your Church Might Be Populated By Humans If . . .

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Books Catechesis Catholic Q&A Chastity Church Craziness Come See Me Talk Disability & Chronic Illness Economics Evangelization Facepalm Forgiveness Good Things History Homeschooling Human Rights It's All Catholic Listen to Me Survey Series Liturgical Living Marriage Modesty Not Satire. But almost. Rant-o-Rama Sacred Art & Music Satire South Carolina Spark Clutter Stick that Corner Suffering Thinking Topics Writing Stuff

Select a Month September 2026 July 2026 June 2026 January 2026 December 2025 September 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 November 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 May 2019 April 2019 February 2019 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

What Christian group emphasizes "The Inner Light" as guidance from God?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Pentecostals Baptists Quakers Methodists