Contraception?

[thessalonian]

All children are from God. I recieved absolute confirmation of that on our 8th child. It's been a while since I posted this story. I couldn't make this up.

Nearly three years ago my wife began a strong spiritual connection and devotion to Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla. Blessed Gianna is a woman who choose to save her child (she was diagnosed with cancer) rather than her own life (www.gianna.org). Prayers to this woman have never failed my wife. Five years ago we were in Fargo after our boy was born. We stopped at a local Catholic book store as my wife was looking for an NFP book. She was thinking we were going to slow down on having babies for a while. This woman strongly believed that Catholics were using NFP for birth control and so she didn't even have an NFP book in her store. The woman also gave us a pamplet on the Blessed Gianna Maternity Home. My wife was thrilled. My wife said if Andrew had been a girl we were thinking of naming him Gianna. She said "you can name your next baby Gianna". Well two years later our baby was due in the middle of May. We found out that she was a girl in January and in February Pope JP II anounced that he was going to canonize blessed Gianna Berreta Molla, Saint Gianna, guess when, Middle of May, May 16th. Our baby was due in the middle of May. Not only that but before we choose the name, the woman we invited to be Godmother before we knew of this canonizatoin said she would be going to Rome in May. Turns out she was at the canonization. Also the doctor who delivered our baby has a baby girl who's middle name is Gianna and has my wife found out she had a strong devotion to this little known, soon to be, saint. Our baby was the last one she delivered before she went to Rome!

This little girl 3 years later is such a blessing. The cutest, sassiest little thing you ever met.

Edited April 17, 2007 by thessalonian

[Resurrexi]

[quote][b]Casti Connubii, Encyclical of Pope Pius XI:[/b]
56. Since, therefore, openly departing from the uninterrupted Christian tradition some recently have judged it possible solemnly to declare another doctrine regarding this question, the Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being defiled by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of her divine ambassadorship and through Our mouth proclaims anew: any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.
[url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121930_casti-connubii_en.html"]http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/...onnubii_en.html[/url][/quote]

[MissScripture]

I think it's odd that people who would normally scrutinize everything that goes into their body, don't think anything of taking birth control.

[jckinsman]

[quote name='thessalonian' post='1247410' date='Apr 17 2007, 06:48 PM']All children are from God. I recieved absolute confirmation of that on our 8th child. It's been a while since I posted this story. I couldn't make this up.

Nearly three years ago my wife began a strong spiritual connection and devotion to Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla. Blessed Gianna is a woman who choose to save her child (she was diagnosed with cancer) rather than her own life (www.gianna.org). Prayers to this woman have never failed my wife. Five years ago we were in Fargo after our boy was born. We stopped at a local Catholic book store as my wife was looking for an NFP book. She was thinking we were going to slow down on having babies for a while. This woman strongly believed that Catholics were using NFP for birth control and so she didn't even have an NFP book in her store. The woman also gave us a pamplet on the Blessed Gianna Maternity Home. My wife was thrilled. My wife said if Andrew had been a girl we were thinking of naming him Gianna. She said "you can name your next baby Gianna". Well two years later our baby was due in the middle of May. We found out that she was a girl in January and in February Pope JP II anounced that he was going to canonize blessed Gianna Berreta Molla, Saint Gianna, guess when, Middle of May, May 16th. Our baby was due in the middle of May. Not only that but before we choose the name, the woman we invited to be Godmother before we knew of this canonizatoin said she would be going to Rome in May. Turns out she was at the canonization. Also the doctor who delivered our baby has a baby girl who's middle name is Gianna and has my wife found out she had a strong devotion to this little known, soon to be, saint. Our baby was the last one she delivered before she went to Rome!

This little girl 3 years later is such a blessing. The cutest, sassiest little thing you ever met.[/quote]
Wow! What a cool story!!! I love the name Gianna! I wanted our last girl to have that name!!!! but I had six other opinions.(my very good friend 6 Months later ,named her 8th little girl,Gianna)!......... Which your story made me curious about the lady in the store,who would not sell NFP books, because she was afraid catholics were using NFP as birth control ! My husband and I took an NFP class, seven years ago. I had never been to one.............truthfully I did not know what one was. (My story is a long one) I do not think that I enjoyed it. I think that with all of what they teach you these days, using it as"Catholic birth control"is very likely! So is that what NFP is all about?????????? The classes never (the ones we attended) taught the one crucial asspect of it. GOD! Just all the jibber-jabber on temps and charts (at this point I will not go into detail) YUKKO!...........I have found, that using NFP,(or not) Above all...is a true test of how much you are attached to this world and
How much you really, truly in the depths of your soul ,KNOW that God is the one in control.....not you! Much easier said then done! So In a world that would like to kill you before you were born,fill your head with a bunch a garbage about"your sexuality",Tell you its okay to fornicate,masterbate and any other "ate" word they can think of. Then when satans used you all up he spits you out into a nursing home where your 1.7 children do not have the time to visit you.....and they wait for you to die, because you are old and a burden on them, and society! CULTURE of DEATH,Folks! "Its all about me!" I ask, When do you think this all started going this way???? ( I have stepped down off my soapbox now) JC

[N/A Gone]

[quote name='MissScripture' post='1247794' date='Apr 18 2007, 02:08 AM']I think it's odd that people who would normally scrutinize everything that goes into their body, don't think anything of taking birth control.[/quote]

Im gonna use that tommorow in my debate...woo-woot