The Natural Family
We know what Natural Family Planning is, but what is the "Natural Family"?
The Natural Family
We know what Natural Family Planning is, but what is the "Natural Family"?
What is GS50?
This website is dedicated to understanding the ancient and primordial truths of human sexuality and family size. The Catholic Church, regardless of your religious affiliation, has accumulated 2000 years of wisdom and helpful guidance.
One document; one paragraph in that document, condenses this ancient wisdom in a concise, easy to understand methodology that our world desperately needs to understand.
The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern WorldGaudium et Spes: Paragraph 50
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50. Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the begetting and educating of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute very substantially to the welfare of their parents. The God Himself Who said, "it is not good for man to be alone" (Gen. 2:18) and "Who made man from the beginning male and female" (Matt. 19:4), wishing to share with man a certain special participation in His own creative work, blessed male and female, saying: "Increase and multiply" (Gen. 1:28). Hence, while not making the other purposes of matrimony of less account, the true practice of conjugal love, and the whole meaning of the family life which results from it, have this aim: that the couple be ready with stout hearts to cooperate with the love of the Creator and the Savior. Who through them will enlarge and enrich His own family day by day.
Parents should regard as their proper mission the task of transmitting human life and educating those to whom it has been transmitted. They should realize that they are thereby cooperators with the love of God the Creator, and are, so to speak, the interpreters of that love. Thus they will fulfil their task with human and Christian responsibility, and, with docile reverence toward God, will make decisions by common counsel and effort. Let them thoughtfully take into account both their own welfare and that of their children, those already born and those which the future may bring. For this accounting they need to reckon with both the material and the spiritual conditions of the times as well as of their state in life. Finally, they should consult the interests of the family group, of temporal society, and of the Church herself. The parents themselves and no one else should ultimately make this judgment in the sight of God. But in their manner of acting, spouses should be aware that they cannot proceed arbitrarily, but must always be governed according to a conscience dutifully conformed to the divine law itself, and should be submissive toward the Church's teaching office, which authentically interprets that law in the light of the Gospel. That divine law reveals and protects the integral meaning of conjugal love, and impels it toward a truly human fulfillment. Thus, trusting in divine Providence and refining the spirit of sacrifice, married Christians glorify the Creator and strive toward fulfillment in Christ when with a generous human and Christian sense of responsibility they acquit themselves of the duty to procreate.
Among the couples who fulfil their God-given task in this way,
those merit special mention who with a gallant heart and with wise and common deliberation,
undertake to bring up suitably even a relatively large family.
Marriage to be sure is not instituted solely for procreation; rather, its very nature as an unbreakable compact between persons, and the welfare of the children, both demand that the mutual love of the spouses be embodied in a rightly ordered manner, that it grow and ripen.
Therefore, marriage persists as a whole manner and communion of life, and maintains its value and indissolubility,
even when despite the often intense desire of the couple, offspring are lacking.
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How many kids should we have?
How many kids should we have? Every couple on earth asks the question. The answer has changed over the ages and THAT is a reality which should concern us all. For whatever reason, it used to be you needed a good reason NOT to have another child and now you need a good reason to have one. Our way of life, our society, is in danger of coming to an end because of the widespread tendency in mankind to gravitate towards pleasure and avoid responsibility for personal actions.
This tendency, coupled with the advancement of reproductive technologies, has made the primordial function of reproduction an endangered institution. The two articles found on this website will give you clear and undeniable facts about what the problem is, why we should be concerned and what we can do about it. For the "formula", related to how many kids you should be open to, read the article on
the Natural Family.
The formula is contained therein.
Truth is Truth
This site is intended to be a resource for men and women who wish to learn and follow the natural laws of marriage with regard to sexuality and family size.
We are dedicated to spreading the ancient truths of naturalness in marriage.
While much of what is posted is Catholic in orientation, these truths are valid regardless of ones religious point of view.
Truth is Truth.
If you have questions, need assurance, need the support of those who have walked in your footsteps, contact us today.
But before you do, read these articles and open the door to the ancient truths of married love and human sexuality.