Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

April 24, 2012

Therese,Bless you for your witness. In itself it will be persuasive. Before adding my encouragement and advice how involved is your pastor in preaching

this? In my parish the pastor and I frequently give homilies in support of life although some my object, but in my experience they are a minority. Many parishioners after mass have commended me saying, Thank you, Father. We needed to hear that. Sadly, it does not always translate

into a complete change of heart but it is a start. I would suggest that you make yourself available, say, give the congregation your telephone number and email address. To make any headway, however, you should encourage that both husband and wife together speak with you to ask their questions. Both husband and wife must be in the conversation. They need to express their views together which in some ways may not be altogether in harmony. You should encourage them that they to continue talking on their own as husband and wife what for many years was not clearly expressed. In the end they will need conversion where the church and the priest confessor can help. Encourage them to take the first step and allow God's grace to help them.

Yours in Christ,Fr. Tom Bartolomeo

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes.

Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptivesWe have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure!

Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private " contact " sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:

99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....

You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.

.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!

I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. -- Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

-- Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

April 24, 2012

Hi Therese,

This looks great.

I was just out at EP2 in Omaha with Dr. Hilgers, and thought this statistic might help your talk. Dr. O'boyle in Ireland has treated 150 infertile women who failed IVF succesfully, and all became pregnant under his care. This was a great stat that I would love to put on a billboard.

God bless

Varasteh, MD FACOG

Napro technology Medical consultant

To: nfpprofessionals Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:37 PMSubject: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility

Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much

about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom

to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. --

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 24, 2012

Please be a bit careful with you how present this. 150 was the number who got

pregnant, not the total number treated.

Dr. Boyle did not have a 100% success rate.

you can look at past published results at

http://www.jabfm.org/content/21/5/375.full (see particularly table 4)

and future results are in process to be published.

Also, Dr. Boyle will present on this work on July 11, 2012 in Salt Lake City,

and online anywhere simultaneously, at the annual meeting of the International

Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine.

www.iirrm.org

Joe

>

> Hi Therese,

> This looks great.

> I was just out at EP2 in Omaha with Dr. Hilgers, and thought this statistic

might help your talk. Dr. O'boyle in Ireland has treated 150 infertile women who

failed IVF succesfully, and all became pregnant under his care. This was a great

stat that I would love to put on a billboard.

> God bless

> Varasteh, MD FACOG

> Napro technology Medical consultant

>

> To: nfpprofessionals

> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:37 PM

> Subject: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

>

> Good afternoon!

>

> I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in

person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes.

>

> Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you

to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

> We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies

will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge

to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion?

Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure!

> Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose

because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health.

Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and

it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support

our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's

practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by

local practitioners.

> What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method

which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of

contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our

very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with

medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral

manner where IVF fails.

> There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have

high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks,

weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health.

Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle

of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and

bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private " contact " sport.

This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family

planning looks like:

> 99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental

health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized

couple centered learning....

> You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't

lived under oppression.

> You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or

fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's

health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever

mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a

Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural

Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's

reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds

and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal.

Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human

life with God.

> . Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in

your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships

whether married or not.

> In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for

healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the

Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!

>

> I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer

materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this.

I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will

listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.

> --

> Therese , RN, FCP*

> *FertilityCare Practitioner

> www.potomacfertility.org

> " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

> At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial

issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village.

>

> --

> Therese , RN, FCP*

> *FertilityCare Practitioner

> www.potomacfertility.org

> " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

>

> --

> Therese , RN, FCP*

> *FertilityCare Practitioner

> www.potomacfertility.org

> " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

>

April 25, 2012

I have reservations about the proposed pulpit message.

First of all, the public political debate is about forcing the Church and its agencies and members to provide, via mandatory insurance, free contraception to every Jack and Jill who requests it. In vitro fertilization has not been part of the discussion. I am not saying it is unimportant but only that it has not been considered as part of the debate about the Obama birth control mandate.

Second, I have reservations about laity giving talks from the pulpit whether during Mass or afterwards. I think the pulpit is the right and the responsibility of the priest or deacon.

Third, I wonder if it is appropriate to have such a talk focused on a particular form of fertility awareness instead of NFP in general. It comes across as an infomercial, especially when the system advocated is 1) secular by design and 2) limits itself to the mucus sign while omitting the regular teaching of the crosschecking cervix and temperature signs and ecological breastfeeding, and 3) is generally much more expensive and less effective (for postponing pregnancy) than those systems that teach the crosschecking signs and eco-breastfeeding.

It seems to me that when Church facilities are used, they should be used primarily to teach and promote Catholic teaching. When practical help is offered from the pulpit and other Church venues, it should be done in the context of offering informed freedom of choice among morally valid options.

Cordially,

Kippley, April 25, 2012

NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. --

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 25, 2012

I agree, I always say in my intro session talk....when we get to the slide on success for infertile couples, and charting + medical care is up to 80% !....this is my fav. slide folks!

Hi Therese,

This looks great.

I was just out at EP2 in Omaha with Dr. Hilgers, and thought this statistic might help your talk. Dr. O'boyle in Ireland has treated 150 infertile women who failed IVF succesfully, and all became pregnant under his care. This was a great stat that I would love to put on a billboard.

God bless

Varasteh, MD FACOG

Napro technology Medical consultant

To: nfpprofessionals Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:37 PM

Subject: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure!

Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility

Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private " contact " sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:

99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.

You also might not have thought much

about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.

.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom

to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village.

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

-- Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

April 25, 2012

Thanks for the correction Joe and the reference. I'll be looking forward to the data from the meeting in July.

To: "<nfpprofessionals >" <nfpprofessionals > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:21 PMSubject: Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?Please be a bit careful with you how present this. 150 was the number who got pregnant, not the total number treated. Dr. Boyle did not have a 100% success rate.you

can look at past published results athttp://www.jabfm.org/content/21/5/375.full (see particularly table 4)and future results are in process to be published.Also, Dr. Boyle will present on this work on July 11, 2012 in Salt Lake City, and online anywhere simultaneously, at the annual meeting of the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine.www.iirrm.orgJoeOn Apr 24, 2012, at 7:49 PM, nicole varasteh wrote:> > Hi Therese,> This looks great.> I was just out at EP2 in Omaha with Dr. Hilgers, and thought this statistic might help your talk. Dr. O'boyle in Ireland has treated 150 infertile women who failed IVF succesfully, and all became pregnant under his care. This was a great stat that I would love to put on a billboard.> God bless> Varasteh, MD FACOG> Napro technology

Medical consultant> > > To: nfpprofessionals > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:37 PM> Subject: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?> > > > Good afternoon!> > I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. > > > Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives> We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their

insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! > Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners. > What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of

contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails. > There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:> 99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's

physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....> You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.> You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life

with God.> . Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.> In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!> > I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.> -- > Therese , RN, FCP*> *FertilityCare Practitioner> www.potomacfertility.org> "your cycles, your fertility, in your

hands"> At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. > > > > -- > Therese , RN, FCP*> *FertilityCare Practitioner> www.potomacfertility.org> "your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"> > > > > -- > Therese , RN, FCP*> *FertilityCare Practitioner> www.potomacfertility.org> "your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"> > > > > ------------------------------------

April 25, 2012

,I agree with you on keeping the pulpit for priests and deacons. Priests don't need to know the intricacies of NFP but they do need to know Church teaching and the immorality of birth control and preach that. The details of NFP could be in various formats: bulletin inserts, flyers, talks given in the parish hall, information where classes are held, part of pre-marital counseling.

Priests should also be knowledgeable about the HHS mandate and its attack on religious and personal freedom. It is important that he talk about this mandate from the freedom perspective, which wouldn't interfere with the Church tax exemption of speaking politics from the pulpit.

Peggy

I have reservations about the proposed pulpit message.

First of all, the public political debate is about forcing the Church and its agencies and members to provide, via mandatory insurance, free contraception to every Jack and Jill who requests it. In vitro fertilization has not been part of the discussion. I am not saying it is unimportant but only that it has not been considered as part of the debate about the Obama birth control mandate.

Second, I have reservations about laity giving talks from the pulpit whether during Mass or afterwards. I think the pulpit is the right and the responsibility of the priest or deacon.

Third, I wonder if it is appropriate to have such a talk focused on a particular form of fertility awareness instead of NFP in general. It comes across as an infomercial, especially when the system advocated is 1) secular by design and 2) limits itself to the mucus sign while omitting the regular teaching of the crosschecking cervix and temperature signs and ecological breastfeeding, and 3) is generally much more expensive and less effective (for postponing pregnancy) than those systems that teach the crosschecking signs and eco-breastfeeding.

It seems to me that when Church facilities are used, they should be used primarily to teach and promote Catholic teaching. When practical help is offered from the pulpit and other Church venues, it should be done in the context of offering informed freedom of choice among morally valid options.

Cordially,

Kippley, April 25, 2012

NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private " contact " sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. --

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

" your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

April 25, 2012

Peggy Therese, ,In a perfect world, Peggy, i agree the pulpit is for Priests and Deacons. Down here in Florida, in the Orlando Diocese, which i have been told is one of the most liberal Dioceses, we have Priests who have never spoken out against abortion or contraception and have never uttered the acronym NFP. If this is the case in your area, then the laity must help fill the void. Also, as another way to look at this, when it is Mission Sunday, don't you have an appropriate witness from some poor Country get up and tell the people about their mission field. Well NFP is our mission field, and we are the witnesses - i see it exactly the same as that. Perhaps i am mistaken, but my thought is better someone say the truth to these poor people in the pews than noone

utter a peep. Therese, i think the "two main points" i was referring to was "religious freedom" (which you started out very well with) and that the contraceptive mandate is NOT preventative care and NOT good for women's health. You have made the point very well that as Catholics we do not have to choose between religious freedom and women's health because our wise Church has long understood that faith and reason go hand in hand and TRUTH is at the service of both of these. You point out the Catholic Church has ALWAYS considered contraception, sterilization and abortion as immoral actions to be avoided because they are intrinsically evil and harm the people that resort to using them. Therefore, there is no way that these can ever be good for us because they are against the natural and divine Law. Thus, we are seeing new evidence every day about how bad

contraception, sterilization and abortion are for our society. There are now so many medical studies and societal data and environmental data which shows that contraception and sterilization and abortion have real medical, spiritual, and societal harms to women, and these are NOT healthy for women. You underscore the point that fertility is not a disease, that pregnancy is a gift. You tell them about the wonderful field of NFP. Blessings, Dr. Peck, MD, CCD, AAFP, Marquette NFP InstructorPecks Family Practice, PLC1688 W Granada Blvd, Ste 2AOrmond Beach, FL 32174 fax:

cell: To: nfpprofessionals Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:26 PM Subject: Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

,I agree with you on keeping the pulpit for priests and deacons. Priests don't need to know the intricacies of NFP but they do need to know Church teaching and the immorality of birth control and preach that. The details of NFP could be in various formats: bulletin inserts, flyers, talks given in the parish hall, information where classes are held, part of pre-marital counseling.

Priests should also be knowledgeable about the HHS mandate and its attack on religious and personal freedom. It is important that he talk about this mandate from the freedom perspective, which wouldn't interfere with the Church tax exemption of speaking politics from the pulpit.

Peggy

I have reservations about the proposed pulpit message.

First of all, the public political debate is about forcing the Church and its agencies and members to provide, via mandatory insurance, free contraception to every Jack and Jill who requests it. In vitro fertilization has not been part of the discussion. I am not saying it is unimportant but only that it has not been considered as part of the debate about the Obama birth control mandate.

Second, I have reservations about laity giving talks from the pulpit whether during Mass or afterwards. I think the pulpit is the right and the responsibility of the priest or deacon.

Third, I wonder if it is appropriate to have such a talk focused on a particular form of fertility awareness instead of NFP in general. It comes across as an infomercial, especially when the system advocated is 1) secular by design and 2) limits itself to the mucus sign while omitting the regular teaching of the crosschecking cervix and temperature signs and ecological breastfeeding, and 3) is generally much more expensive and less effective (for postponing pregnancy) than those systems that teach the crosschecking signs and eco-breastfeeding.

It seems to me that when Church facilities are used, they should be used primarily to teach and promote Catholic teaching. When practical help is offered from the pulpit and other Church venues, it should be done in the context of offering informed freedom of choice among morally valid options.

Cordially,

Kippley, April 25, 2012

NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. --

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 25, 2012

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,

I think we are very close but perhaps differ as to who should make the decision. Granted, doctors are trained to make decisions about medical problems. But when it comes to the decision about whether to use something as cheap and simple as well tested as a basal thermometer, I think that ordinary couples are capable of making that decision if they are given adequate information. I think it is theologically amiss for the Church to align itself too closely with any particular method, and therefore it should be insisting that couples be given sufficient information so that the have the freedom of choice that is appropriate to ordinary folks. The will cannot choose what the intellect has not considered.

Kippley

NFP from pulpit..help with wording?

Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptives

We have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners.

What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails.

There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. --

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

--

Therese , RN, FCP*

*FertilityCare Practitioner

www.potomacfertility.org

"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 25, 2012

I totally agree. Couples can make the decision if they are presented with all the options. Do you think most NFP instructors (doctors included) share all the methods? No, probably not. But as time goes by and the couples aren't either doing well with a method or express interest in discontinuing, it would at least be worth a try to give them a list of other methods with brief descriptions so that instead of flying off to sterilization-land they might at least try another NFP method. My husband and I didn't care for the BBT but we love the monitor. To each his own! Vive la difference! Sent via BlackBerry by AT&TSender: nfpprofessionals Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:12:13 -0400To: <nfpprofessionals >ReplyTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording? ï»¿, I think we are very close but perhaps differ as to who should make the decision. Granted, doctors are trained to make decisions about medical problems. But when it comes to the decision about whether to use something as cheap and simple as well tested as a basal thermometer, I think that ordinary couples are capable of making that decision if they are given adequate information. I think it is theologically amiss for the Church to align itself too closely with any particular method, and therefore it should be insisting that couples be given sufficient information so that the have the freedom of choice that is appropriate to ordinary folks. The will cannot choose what the intellect has not considered. Kippley NFP from pulpit..help with wording? Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptivesWe have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners. What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails. There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands" At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. -- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 25, 2012

: FromHumanae vitaeTo Doctors and Nurses27. Likewise we hold in the highest esteem those doctors and members of the nursing profession who, in the exercise of their calling,endeavor to fulfill the demands of their Christian vocation before any merely human interest. Let them therefore continue constant in their resolution always to support those lines of action whichaccord with faith and with right reason. And let them strive to win agreement and support for these policies among their professional colleagues. Moreover,they should regard it as an essential part of their skill to make themselves fully proficient in this difficult field of medical knowledge. For then, when married couples ask for their advice,they may be in a position to give them right counseland to point them in the proper direction. Married couples have a right to expect this much from them.And as expressed in HV â€“ it is not always easy to discern what is the best method of NFP for coupleâ€™s individual circumstances (e.g., during the breastfeedingtransition) and health circumstances (e.g., PCOS) and to know the advantages and disadvantages of various natural methods and indicators of tracking fertility. J. FehringProfessor of NursingMarquette University From: nfpprofessionals [mailto:nfpprofessionals ]On Behalf Of KippleySent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:12 PMTo: nfpprofessionals Subject: Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording? ï»¿ , I think we are very close but perhaps differ as to who should make the decision. Granted, doctors are trained to make decisions about medical problems. But when it comesto the decision about whether to use something as cheap and simple as well tested as a basal thermometer, I think that ordinary couples are capable of making that decision if they are given adequate information. I think it is theologically amiss for the Churchto align itself too closely with any particular method, and therefore it should be insisting that couples be given sufficient information so that the have the freedom of choice that is appropriate to ordinary folks. The will cannot choose what the intellecthas not considered. Kippley NFP from pulpit..help with wording? Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptivesWe have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Dowe have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure!Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings againstcontraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests ANDembrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners. What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails. There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has notever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it intoa private " contact " sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viableoption. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularitiesof all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear yourstory. There is still hope and healing.-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands " At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village.-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands " -- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org " your cycles, your fertility, in your hands "

April 25, 2012

Getting back to the original question, I think Therese' needs a lot of help--sorry Therese--it was humble of you to ask for help. is such a good writer--in my opinion--that I would encourage her to accept another writing assignement. Her piece could at least be a starting point for someone to revise to fit their own personality. IF I were doing it, I would start with Church teaching--Genesis, Humanae Vitae, and 22:13-14, "Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, "Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." " [This is part of Jesus' teaching on marriage, so scholars recognize this as meaning don't contracept or abort.] We should be encouraging a bias toward being open to another child. When that bias is firmly established, the market for birth prevention methods of all ilk will dry up. Many NFP advocates have a tendency to encourage NFP as a generally acceptable alternative to UN natural methods, but that is not the truth. NFP can be legitmately used when couples have a SERIOUS reason to delay/prevent conception. That IS Church teaching; that does conform to natural law; it does make sense when that new baby arrives; and it does make sense from an eternal perspective. How many couples in the typical America Catholic Parish have a truly serious reason to not be open to God's SUPREME gift of another child? When that pro-conception/child philosophy is universal, the emperor will be seen naked. Blessings. Steve Koob, DirectorOne More Soul To: nfpprofessionals From: jfkippley@...Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:12:13 -0400Subject: Re: NFP from pulpit..help with wording? ï»¿ , I think we are very close but perhaps differ as to who should make the decision. Granted, doctors are trained to make decisions about medical problems. But when it comes to the decision about whether to use something as cheap and simple as well tested as a basal thermometer, I think that ordinary couples are capable of making that decision if they are given adequate information. I think it is theologically amiss for the Church to align itself too closely with any particular method, and therefore it should be insisting that couples be given sufficient information so that the have the freedom of choice that is appropriate to ordinary folks. The will cannot choose what the intellect has not considered. Kippley NFP from pulpit..help with wording? Good afternoon!I was asked by my pastor to draft an after Mass announcement I would make in person soon. What do you think of this? I think I have 2 minutes. Good morning. As a nurse and women and couples' health advocate I ask for you to consider this: Religious freedom vs. contraceptivesWe have until this August 2012, before Catholic churches and Catholic agencies will be forced in their insurance plans to cover contraceptives free of charge to the insurance member. Do we have to take sides? Women or religion? Of course we know: religious freedom AND true women's health care for sure! Truthfully many are caught in the middle and we think we have to choose because we've taken the Pill for planning purposes and teen or women's health. Consider this perspective: We can support our Church's religious freedom and it's teachings against contraceptive use for family planning . We can support our Bishops and priests AND embrace the Church's teachings by understanding it's practical help through Natural Methods of Fertility Awareness or NFP offered by local practitioners. What would you say if you were told there was another effective, safe method which took care of both: family planning and women's health without use of contraceptives at all? Over 50 couples in the past 2 years right in our very own locale, have turned with success to natural methods in conjunction with medical care for healing. This offers up to 80% success in a totally moral manner where IVF fails. There is no need for fear of religious freedom without the Pill. Pills have high doses of hormones, elevate the risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, weight gain, and has not ever been researched for its use for women's health. Fertility is a healthy state, no need to be reduced to a disease. The miracle of creating new life is stripped of its entire dual meanings : babies and bonding in every marital embrace and turns it into a private "contact" sport. This is what drug free/ device free fertility awareness or natural family planning looks like:99% effective 100% natural, underlying causes of women's physical and mental health revealed and healed without use of the Pill, private, and personalized couple centered learning....You might not have thought much about religious freedom because you haven't lived under oppression.You also might not have thought much about natural family planning or fertility awareness methods for teens, singles and married women for women's health because you thought it was ineffective or too much work or wasn't ever mentioned by your doctor as a viable option. As a wife, mother and currently a Registered Nurse, I've talked to over 150 couples who've taken a full Natural Family planning course and communicate with their doctor to manage all women's reproductive health issues, including depression and irregularities of all kinds and family planning based on their private and personal daily fertility journal. Local, organic and sustainable to women's health and the power to create human life with God.. Natural family planning can help sustain your openness to life and love in your life. These are the 2 ends of our physical expression in our relationships whether married or not.In harmony with nature and God's ways, you have the freedom to trust NFP for healing, for family planning & women's health. This is the freedom the Church invites us too. Your body knows, you can too!I will be available in the Green Room at back of parish hall to offer materials, information for your own research and discuss your comments on this. I welcome them and you! I would very much expect opposing viewpoints. I will listen and want to hear your story. There is still hope and healing.-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands" At this point, any woman can get the Pill for free if she has financial issues. Right here at our local Planned Parenthood in Montgomery Village. -- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"-- Therese , RN, FCP**FertilityCare Practitionerwww.potomacfertility.org"your cycles, your fertility, in your hands"

April 25, 2012

Concerning NFP from the pulpit or ambo--a homily at mass is canonically restricted to an ordained priest or deacon as it should be. Â A brief appealÂ to the congregation before the final dismissal at mass would, however, be acceptable. Â Lacking sadly a homily on NFP or the broader issue ofÂ life and procreation an appropriately brief appeal by a lay person may bear some fruit, an educational outreach. Â Better something than nothing. Â Encourage your priests and pastors to preach the Word!Â

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Humanae vitae

To Doctors and Nurses

27. Likewise we hold in the highest esteem those

doctors and members of the nursing profession who, in the exercise of their calling,

endeavor to fulfill the demands of their Christian vocation before any merely human interest. Let them therefore continue constant in their resolution always to support those lines of action which

accord with faith and with right reason. And let them strive to win agreement and support for these policies among their professional colleagues. Moreover,

they should regard it as an essential part of their skill to make themselves fully proficient in this difficult field of medical knowledge. For then, when married couples ask for their advice,

they may be in a position to give them right counsel

and to point them in the proper direction. Married couples have a right to expect this much from them.

And as expressed in HV â€“ it is not always easy to discern what is the best method of NFP for coupleâ€™s individual circumstances (e.g., during the breastfeeding

transition) and health circumstances (e.g., PCOS) and to know the advantages and disadvantages of various natural methods and indicators of tracking fertility. Â

J. Fehring

Professor of Nursing

Marquette University

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