Archive for October 2024
The Sufferings of Miscarriage
Miscarriage is a hard topic. The loss of an unborn child is experienced by many couples and yet, each loss remains entirely unique. It can feel hard to know what to say or do to support a mother and father who’ve miscarried. It can feel hard to do “the work of grief” ourselves. Thankfully, the…
Read MoreNo Masculinity, No Fatherhood
Less than half of American children reach adulthood with both parents at home.(1) It’s usually not moms who leave. Dads do. Approximately 80% of single-parent homes are led by single mothers.(2) At this moment, 19.5 million US kids live without a resident father. That equates to the entire population of New York City (with suburbs) full…
Read MoreHalloween Traditions that Honor God
There’s no reason to surrender a day of spiritual preparation to coincidental timing of peripheral pagan celebrations. Christ came to redeem! Even if secular Halloween has devolved towards the demonic, we Christians can and should purify our own traditions and use them as tools to evangelize and grow in holiness.
Read MoreThe Lighter Side of Teaching NFP
My wife promised to proofread this first. She was afraid it would be filled with tacky jokes, but I’m so confident that I can provide dry humor that I just slipped it into the CCL inbox. I’ve been a teacher for 20 years and I’m an engineer who takes humor very seriously. So, in the…
Read MoreA Real Love Story
Real couples really do use NFP, and we asked Ryan and Kassie to tell us their NFP story — the good parts and the struggles. They are writing their own love story and have chosen to do so by following God’s plan for marriage. Was NFP difficult to learn? No. We started with STM (Sympto-Thermal…
Read MoreA Story of Cycles, PCOS and Hope
Lying on a restaurant bathroom floor is not how I saw myself helping my mom spend her birthday but that’s how it went. As my mom sat next to me putting cold paper towels on my head, I laid in the fetal position with terrible cramping. I have always had awful cramps. From the time…
Read MoreTeaching NFP and Life’s Blessings
Pete and Lora Brodeur have been an NFP teaching couple for over twenty years, both in-person and online. They have also been involved in sharing NFP and marital ethics at the marriage preparation program in their diocese. They have four grown children who have each found their own passions. Their eldest son is a teacher…
Read MoreTeaching NFP, a Natural Fit
Kevin Walsh serves in the U.S. Marine Corps, so he and his homeschooling wife, Adrienne, are familiar with service. Although the military does not officially sanction his teaching NFP, Kevin and Adrienne have found being a teaching couple a natural fit for service within the Church. Through military stations from North Carolina to Europe, the…
Read MoreThe Rosary Beats With the Rhythms of Our Lives
One of the greatest tools of prayer in our Catholic faith is the rosary. When you watch a movie there is usually music that plays in the background as the story unfolds before your eyes. The Hail Marys and Our Fathers of the rosary are the background music to the story of each mystery that…
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