NFP Archives

A Different Perspective

Written by Céline Gaeta I have always struggled with irregular cycles and severe PMS. My symptoms only worsened in college, where stress and cafeteria food made it difficult to lead a healthy lifestyle. When I voiced my frustration to some of my friends, I was not expecting my problem to be relatable. Many of my…

Couple Combines Teaching & Promoting

Seth & Elizabeth Timpe of Colorado, USA, successfully combine the roles of CCL Teaching Couple and Promoters by keeping both in mind as they go about their ministry of spreading the good news about Natural Family Planning. “Part of something my husband and I do is always give the NFP presentation at the local Marriage…

NFP as a Husband and Programmer

Written by Jim Volpe. Originally published in Family Foundations. As the husband, the documentation aspects of NFP have always fallen to me to handle. Whether it was a book of charts, or a pencil and the back of an envelope, or software that was installed from a CD, or an app in my pocket, recording…

Truly Living the NFP Lifestyle

Written by Anne Marie Stroud. Originally published in Family Foundations. NFP is always countercultural, but today’s young married couples face pressures from media, friends, and even family to contracept and close the door to life. There’s definitely a gap that needs to be filled in showing newlyweds the goodness of self-gift through NFP and openness…

A New Path – Tools of the New Apostolic Age

Written by Katie Zulanas. Originally published in Family Foundations. We’ve pondered before the beautiful picture of the resurrected Lord as a gardener waiting for Mary Magdalene to recognize Him. He is holding a spade—a tool for working. This past year has been a labor of love updating our CycleProGo app to be reintroduced as the…

Not Your Average NFP Bulletin Boards…

Eben and Lindsey Krapfl are a Teaching Couple from Iowa. Lindsey decided that promoting NFP at her parish didn’t need to be dull so she came up with trendy and humorous bulletin boards for her parish hall. These seasonal boards were quick to catch people’s eyes and the increase in interest came shortly after. Parishioners…

Sacrifice, Lent and Practicing NFP

Written by Katie Zulanas As we enter into Lenten season 2023, I have been meditating on many Saints who remind us that Lent is a chance to “begin again.” With prayer and fasting, our 40 days can give us a time and a place to invite Christ into our hearts in a way more fruitful…

Beginning Again This Lent

Written by Katie Zulanas We invite you to join us in our meditations of the stations with thoughts from the saints. Our overall theme this year and this Lent will be “Begin Again,” inspired by Saint Francis de Sales who tells us: “It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no…

Place for NFP in a Post-Roe World

Written by Melissa Gorley. Originally published in Family Foundations. This blog is a part of a series where we will meet three couples who are boldly doing this work and living the truth that St John Paul II speaks about – “the Gospel of God’s love for man, the Gospel of the dignity of the…

Build a Culture of Life and Love with NFP

Written by Melissa Gorley. Originally published in Family Foundations. (Part 1 in series) With the U.S. Supreme Court reversing the alleged Constitutional right to abortion in the Dobbs decision, the issue has largely returned to state governments. This is a huge victory for human life and the righting of a great national injustice. Political battles…