(19th July 2026 – Day dedicated to Natural Family Planning in our Archdiocese)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is rooted in Catholic teaching on God’s design for human sexuality, marriage and family life, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood (Familiaris consortio:33,34&35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Church as Teacher and Mother for Couples<\/strong> There is no doubt that these conditions must include persistence and patience, humility and strength of mind, filial trust in God and in His grace, and frequent recourse to prayer and to the sacraments of the Eucharist and of Reconciliation. Thus strengthened, Christian husbands and wives will be able to keep alive their awareness of the unique influence that the grace the sacrament of marriage has on every aspect of married life, including their sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This discipline which is proper to the purity of married couples, far from harming conjugal love, rather confers on it a higher human value. It demands continual effort, yet, thanks to its beneficent influence, husband and wife fully develop their personalities, being enriched with spiritual values which bestows upon family life fruits of serenity and peace, and facilitates the solution of other problems. It favours attention for one’s partner, helps both parties to drive out selfishness, the enemy of true love, and deepens their sense of responsibility. By its means, parents acquire the capacity of having a deeper and more efficacious influence in the education of their offspring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every effort must be made by the Church to render knowledge of the bodily aspects and the body’s rhythms of fertility to all married people and also to young adults before marriage, through clear, timely and serious instruction and education given by married couples, doctors and experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr Lorna Fernandez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (19th July 2026 – Day dedicated to Natural Family Planning in our Archdiocese) Natural Family Planning (NFP) is rooted in Catholic teaching on God’s design for human sexuality, marriage and family life, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood (Familiaris consortio:33,34&35). The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pormoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stsebastianaquem.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In the field of conjugal morality the Church is Teacher and Mother. It is close to married couples who find themselves in difficulty over this important point of moral life. She knows that many couples encounter difficulties not only in the fulfilment of the moral norm but even in understanding its values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n