If any of our more liturgically minded friends could give us some information on the tradition of Advent, that would be great! I have fond memories of celebrating Advent as a child with my family, and would like to give my son the same gift, but I really want to dig into the traditions, more than just lighting candles on a wreath.
The first Sunday of Advent this year is the 29th.
Thank you!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Natural Family Planning
This topic was mentioned way back as something it could be interesting to discuss. So I begin the discussion! The following is the introduction from this website titled What A Woman Should Know About Birth Control:
All methods of birth control are efforts to separate sexual intercourse from procreation. This separation supports sexual relationships that are much weaker than traditional marriage—hooking up, cohabitation, adultery, and serial monogamy. These relationships erode society by leading to divorce, unexpected pregnancy, abortion, single parent households, abuse, and poverty. The consequences of birth control clearly demonstrate an unhealthy, anti-culture and anti-life, impact that raises major ethical concerns. Use of birth control is like intentionally eating unhealthy, nutrition-less, food just for the pleasure of eating. A steady diet will kill you. In much the same way, a steady diet of birth control kills relationships.
While I definitely know it is a personal choice and no one should be "guilt-ed" into not using contraception since it is one of those biblical "grey areas," the arguments of the Catholic church that contraception is largely responsible for the moral decay of society are extremely compelling (as hinted at in the above quote). I'd love to loan a CD to anyone interested that goes into the arguments in depth. Or I can post summaries here.
All methods of birth control are efforts to separate sexual intercourse from procreation. This separation supports sexual relationships that are much weaker than traditional marriage—hooking up, cohabitation, adultery, and serial monogamy. These relationships erode society by leading to divorce, unexpected pregnancy, abortion, single parent households, abuse, and poverty. The consequences of birth control clearly demonstrate an unhealthy, anti-culture and anti-life, impact that raises major ethical concerns. Use of birth control is like intentionally eating unhealthy, nutrition-less, food just for the pleasure of eating. A steady diet will kill you. In much the same way, a steady diet of birth control kills relationships.
While I definitely know it is a personal choice and no one should be "guilt-ed" into not using contraception since it is one of those biblical "grey areas," the arguments of the Catholic church that contraception is largely responsible for the moral decay of society are extremely compelling (as hinted at in the above quote). I'd love to loan a CD to anyone interested that goes into the arguments in depth. Or I can post summaries here.
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