Natural Family Planning Awareness Week

• Natural Family Planning Awareness Week highlights the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (July 25) which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood. 
• Also marks the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26), the parents of the Blessed Motther  a fitting commemoration during National NFP Awareness Week! 

For USCCB NFP Resources click here

Watch a Message from Bishop Robert Barron
Chairman of the bishops' Committee
for Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth 

For local information regarding NFP click here

"The logic of the total gift of self to the other involves a potential openness to procreation: in this way the marriage is called to even greater fulfillment as a family. Certainly the mutual gift of husband and wife does not have the begetting of children as its only end, but is in itself a mutual communion of love and of life." (John Paul II, Letter to Families, no. 12)