marriage enrichment Archives - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

St. Carlo Acutis: Patron Saint of the PeakDay App

This October, CCL has a special reason to celebrate. For the first time, we celebrate the feast day of St. Carlo Acutis, canonized just last year on September 7, 2025. And around here, Carlo feels a little like family. When we were developing the PeakDay app, we knew we were taking on something that would…

Carrying the Mission Forward

When Regina and Alfred Nicolini became a certified Couple to Couple League Teaching Couple in 2025, they joined a tradition stretching back more than five decades. They are among CCL’s newest volunteers, teaching classes while raising a young daughter and balancing the demands of work, mission and family life. Yet in many ways, their story…

NFP and Birth Control: Worth Talking About

Elizabeth Timpe is passionate about a few things. Postpartum fertility is one. Helping women understand their charts is another. And then there is the one she recently took to the pages of Denver Catholic: Can we please stop calling Natural Family Planning “contraceptive”? Elizabeth is not afraid to speak about this topic. After years of…

The Gift of a Child

As Mother Teresa said at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., “A child is God’s greatest gift to the family, to the nation, to the world.” At CCL, we see every child welcomed through the practice of NFP as a beautiful gift from God – both to the family and to the world.…

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…

Being Pro-Life & NFP

Brenda and Gregg grew up in faithful Catholic homes and heard of NFP early on. Learning the nuts and bolts of it expanded their understanding of being pro-life. The couple’s main concern before taking an NFP class was efficacy. “A lot of these families that practice NFP have a lot of children,” they remember thinking. They add, “But as you…

Lessons I’ve Learned From Our Donors and Volunteers

While I can think of plenty of reasons to love NFP, the Sympto-Thermal Method, and CCL itself, a few months ago I found myself wanting to hear, in other people’s own words, what makes them love what we do. So, I took to the phones and started calling donors and volunteers, asking why they go the extra mile…

Helping Marriages Flourish Through Every Season

For more than 55 years, Couple to Couple League has helped couples prepare for one of life’s greatest vocations: marriage. Over those years, we have learned that preparation does not end on the wedding day. Marriage and family life are filled with new seasons, from starting a career and welcoming a first child to watching children grow,…

Natural Family Planning: Designed by God, Guided by Love, Open to Life

The natural beauty of creation has the power to draw us into the mystery of God. We can see, feel, smell, and sense God’s creative handiwork in so many ways. Consider when we pause to savor the burst of colors in a sunset or the rhythmic sound of waves rolling upon a beach. It might…

Celebrate National NFP Week! 12 Simple Ways

National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, July 19–25, 2026, is almost here! This year’s theme from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Natural Family Planning: Designed by God. Guided by Love. Open to Life,” beautifully captures the gift that NFP offers married couples. It is rooted in God’s design for our bodies, guided by…