Foundations for Family
Thank you to the CCL family as we step into the breach – we reach out to help families have a chance with learning about the beautiful gift of fertility through their lifetime. After consistent work we have workshops that are finally underway – in parishes, college campuses and in pregnancy centers across the US. Our global reach continues to grow as we now have new teachers training in India, the Netherlands, and Japan. With the PeakDay app, new courses and materials—we are working hard to educate everywhere we can.
Education
We are providing true education – not making couples dependent on our app, or even our method, but giving them the tools to understand the gift of their shared fertility and equipping them to make good decisions in a world of devices / technology and anti-Life rhetoric. The fruit of good education is freedom.
“It is the task of education to form people in authentic freedom. This is not the absence of constraint or the supremacy of free will… man is a relational being, who lives in relationship with others and especially with God. Authentic freedom can never be attained independently of God.” — Pope Benedict XVI
Never has the need been greater! Young women may be more skeptical of “the pill,” but they are being educated, by and large, by the secular fertility app in their pocket—unfortunately, the ideas being proposed there are not pro-life or pro-family.
It is now a normal “family planning” suggestion during an annual physical that women “freeze” their eggs, JIC—which, of course, is a setup for the IVF pathway later in life. Sadly, the number of IVF deaths now exceeds the massive number of abortions each year.
Couples desperately need education in how to understand and protect their fertility. Please help us let Catholics know about the PeakDay app instead! Let’s break the cycle of these attacks on life and the family! We can do it with everyone’s help.
Gratitude
As we celebrate CCL’s 55th anniversary, I find myself filled with gratitude. Gratitude for the couples who trusted us to walk with them, for the teachers who have generously shared their time and witness, for the volunteers and donors who have kept this mission moving forward, and for every family whose life has been touched by NFP. God has been faithful to CCL’s ministry through every step of this journey. That is a sign of hope and that we are on the right path.
The work is far from finished. There are still countless couples searching for hope, for truth, and for someone to show them that there is a better way. Later this year, we’ll be gathering online to celebrate 55 years of CCL and to inspire a new generation to share the gift of NFP. I hope you’ll join us, bring a friend, and help us spread the word. Together, with God’s grace, we can help even more couples discover the freedom and joy that comes from understanding the gift of their fertility.
Written by Katie Zulanas, CCL Executive Director. This article first appeared in Family Foundations magazine, a benefit for donors to the Couple to Couple League. For engaged couples, find CCL’s NFP for Marriage Prep here. Find CCL’s PeakDay STMethod for married couples here.