Natural Family Planning (NFP)
Natural Family Planning - It's about love. It's about life. It's about freedom. It's about gift.
“Celebrate and reverence God's vision of human sexuality.”
A Message from Bishop Barron for NFP Awareness Week 2024
VIEW THE DIOCESAN NFP FAITHFULLY YOURS BOOKLET
Take a look at our newest articles and real life stories from real life couples.
Articles -
Love Naturally - Written by USCCB/NFPP staff, this reflection considers how love is a gift from God and that the methods of NFP are a support to God's gift of married love.
NFP Saved My Health Naturally - This brief reflection by Brooke Paris Foley provides a clear witness to how NFP charting can help identify a woman's health issues.
Join the Revolution! - Jill Cherrey, NFP Coordinator, Archdiocese of Newark, reflects on her work with couples learning NFP.
Why Natural Family Planning Differs from Contraception - Excerpts from a 1998 letter by John Paul II commemorating Humanae Vitae.
Redeemed Sexuality - Theresa Notare, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the USCCB's NFP Program, provides a popular explanation of the theology behind NFP. (En español)
A Boost for NFP - Rev. Charles Goraieb, a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix, offers a pastoral perspective on NFP.
Responsible Parents are Open to Life - Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain teaches about responsible parenthood.
My Slogan: “Practice Saved Sex!” - Journalist, Fletcher Doyle reflects on Natural Family Planning.
Celebrating the Richness of Church Teaching - Noted professor, Janet E. Smith, Ph.D., explains Catholic teaching on married love and responsible parenthood.
Marriage: The Gift of Love and Life - Most Rev. Victor Galeone, retired Bishop of St. Augustine, offers a reflection on the 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae.
ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS, PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES
World GrandpARENTS’ Day
World Grandparent’s Day! “Grandparents are the ring linking generations, to transmit to young people the experience of life and faith.” In January 2021, after praying the Angelus, Pope Francis declared the fourth Sunday in July as World Day for Grandparents. The date has been chosen to be near the liturgical memorial (July 26) of Saints Anne and Joachim, grandparents of Jesus. Since the date of the memorial falls within the week devoted to raising awareness of Natural Family Planning and Church teaching which support its use in marriage due to the anniversary of Humanae vitae (July 25), it is appropriate for all NFP Week celebrations to include reflection upon the vital role that grandparents play in the lives of their grandchildren.
Church Teachings / Ecclesial Teachings
Good for the Body.
Good for the Soul.
The privilege of husband and wife to bring new life into the world is a gift from God. It is a sacred responsibility through which they participate in God's creative power. Natural family planning (NFP) helps the couple understand the beauty of this creative power by defining the scientific, natural, and moral aspects of family planning that allow couples either to achieve or postpone pregnancy. NFP is both life-giving, as it brings forth new life in the marital relationship, and love-giving, as it deepens and enriches the bond of love between husband and wife. It truly is good for body and soul!
Catholic Teaching
Discover the beauty of God's gift of marriage and its ability to give you a share in his creative love and power -- a love that brings new life into the world and increases and deepens the love of spouses.
What is NFP?
Learn about one of today's best kept secrets.
Current Medical Research
Research includes the areas of: NFP, human fertility, and related issues. Great resource for promoting NFP or for your own education and understanding.
Featuring the NFP Teachers of the Diocese of New Ulm
Resources
The what, why, and who regarding NFP for couples, clergy, teachers, health care professionals, and anyone promoting the good of the family.
Who Are We?
What NFP was, is, and will be.
couples' stories
Catch a glimpse into real-life stories by real-life people! Discover how Natural Family Planning can affect your marriage . . .
articles
- Programs available in diocese that teach two of the major NFP methods
- Why Natural Family Planning Differs from Contraception
- Responsible Parents are Open to Life
- My Slogan: "Practice Saved Sex!"
- Celebrating the Richness of Church Teaching
- Marriage: The Gift of Love and Life
prayer resources
Natural family planning, or NFP, is an umbrella term for methods that allow a couple to achieve or avoid a pregnancy by monitoring the wife's fertility.
There are many different programs that provide methods of NFP. Each program teaches either the ovulation method or the sympto-thermal method. Each is a safe, natural, and reliable way of timing pregnancy.
In the Diocese of New Ulm, both NFP methods are being taught with three programs represented: FertilityCare (ovulation), NFP International (sympto-thermal), and Couple to Couple League (sympto-thermal).
For a list of NFP physicians, practitioners, and trainers in the Diocese of New Ulm, click here.
For more information on what NFP is, check out the July 2012 issue of The Prairie Catholic, page 10.
For more information on NFP and the programs in the diocese, contact Sr. Candace Fier, (507) 233-5328.