MADISON — Natural Family Planning (NFP) classes will be held in the Diocese of Madison.
To complete the course and learn how to use NFP, attend all three classes in one of the following series starting:
• Madison, St. Paul Catholic University Center — Saturday, Feb. 17, 1 p.m. (Classes 2 and 3 TBD @ Class 1)
MONONA — Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Athletic Committee will host its first Back to School Backyard Family Games and a Bean Bag Tournament on the IHM School grounds on Saturday, Sept. 16. All proceeds of both events benefit IHM Athletics.
For the Backyard Family Games, cost is $20/family of four and $2 for each additional family member OR $5/person. The fee includes food/drink ticket for a brat or hot dog, chips, and soda, water, or lemonade. Additional food and drink will be available for purchase.
MONONA — Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Athletic Committee will host its first Back to School Backyard Family Games and a Bean Bag Tournament on the IHM School grounds on Saturday, Sept. 16. All proceeds of both events benefit IHM Athletics.
For the Backyard Family Games, cost is $20/family of four and $2 for each additional family member OR $5/person. The fee includes food/drink ticket for a brat or hot dog, chips, and soda, water, or lemonade. Additional food and drink will be available for purchase.
LA VALLE — Holy Family Parish in La Valle will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the erection of its church with a special Mass on Sunday, Sept. 17, at 12 noon, with Bishop Robert C. Morlino presiding.
The church is located at 310 Bluff St. in La Valle. Fr. Sanctus K. Ibe is the pastor.
Holy Family Catholic Parish of La Valle originated in 1915 under the leadership of Father Kriel. The first services were held in a vacant shoe store.
MADISON — “It’s time! Say ‘Yes’ to God’s plan for married love” is the theme of this year’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, a national educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to celebrate God’s vision for marriage and promote Natural Family Planning.
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is an umbrella term for the safe, natural, and effective methods of both achieving and avoiding pregnancy. NFP education courses teach couples how to observe and interpret the woman’s signs of fertility and infertility. In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, NFP methods “respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom” (CCC, no. 2370).
The dates of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week are July 23 to 29. These dates highlight the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae (July 25) that articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, marriage, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood.
MADISON — The Couple to Couple League will host a class targeted specifically for women in the premenopausal transition. This class begins Monday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at Holy Name Heights, 702 S. High Point Rd.
Couples who have learned various Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods are encouraged to attend. Instruction will include information so that all couples, no matter their original NFP method training, can practice NFP more confidently during this time.
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| Robert Enright |
Sixth in a series of seven articles on forgiveness.
It is so special that the Second Vatican Council referred to the family as “the domestic church” (Lumen Gentium #11).
On the Feast of the Annunciation this year (March 25), Pope Francis, in a talk to 27 heads of government, stated, “Europe finds new hope when she . . . invests in the family, which is the first and fundamental cell of society.”
According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it is in the family that children learn to love.
It is so sad that the family also is the first place where too many children (and adults) learn conflict and division and discord.
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Q My father-in-law recently experienced some health concerns.
As a family member I wanted to offer support and assist in any way I could. I offered to sit with my mother-in-law as she spent endless hours in the hospital, bring a meal over, or help with some chores around the house.
It is not that my offers were ignored, my mother-in-law just politely said, “Thank you so much for the offer, but I am fine.”
MADISON — John Joy recently started in the position of marriage and family coordinator in the Diocese of Madison’s Office of Evangelization and Catechesis.
Joy comes to Madison from northwestern Indiana where he had been teaching ethics at a high school.
Prior to that, he studied graduate level theology at the International Theological Institute in Austria for five years.
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| Veronica Arntz |
In this four-part series discussing Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (AL), I hope to establish a clear understanding of marriage and family in the first and second parts.
In the third and fourth parts, I will clarify some confusion over the nature of the divorced and remarried and the reception of Communion, looking at the document itself.
Our next step shall be to link what we previously said about marriage to what the Church says about family.
