Natural Family Planning Awareness Week

 

From the NFP Program, USCCB

2 April 2009

 

Before we complete our daily work and begin to celebrate the mystery of our salvation in Holy Week, I want to provide you with some information:  The materials for National NFP Awareness Week are now available online.

 

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National NFP Awareness Week

 

The materials for National NFP Awareness Week are now available on line at:

http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/nfp/nfpweek/index.shtml.

 

The slogan this year is: Marriage and Natural Family Planning . . . a Divine Design!

 

PDF-files of the poster are ready on our website for your downloading.  You have our permission to use them in your diocesan newspapers, NFP publications and promotional materials. 

 

A few weeks after Easter, the postcards will be mailed to you and all the parishes in the country.  The print copies of the posters should be ready by the end of May.  The prices remain the same as last year.  To order posters, contact our mailing house directly at: customerservice@ifcweb.com or toll free, 1-866-582-0943.

 

Among the supportive materials are:

-           Homily notes

-           Prayers of the Faithful

-           Under “Prayers” – a new Litany to Mary Mother of Life

-           Under “Couples’ Stories” – two new articles entitled,

How Natural Family Planning Has Changed My Life, by Dawn Farias

And

Be Her Joseph!, by Tom Mealey

 

*Of note: with this year’s materials, we are making an effort to include the Spanish translations of the “Prayers of the Faithful” and the “Couples’ Stories.”  We will have the all the translations up on the website after April 7.

 

Please remember to write a brief paragraph about how you plan to celebrate National NFP Awareness Week for our Summer/Fall issue of the newsletter.  Send your information to me at nfp@usccb.org by July 1.

 

 

 

 

Annual Diocesan NFP Profile Survey

 

Thank you to the 70 diocesan NFP coordinators who have submitted your surveys.  We are still taking data, so if you have not completed the survey, please continue to do so.  Our data analyst, Fr. Bob Cannon will not work on the final report until May. 

 

As some of you may know, Fr. Cannon is an Air Force chaplain.  He has been assisting our office on a variety of projects since 1990.  Currently, he has been temporarily assigned to minister to our troops in Afghanistan.  Please keep him and our troops in your prayers!

 

June 24, 2009  NFP Meeting at Annual NACFLM Conference

 

To date we have 33 diocesan NFP coordinators registered for our free NFP meeting at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota.  If you are intending to register with us, please do so as soon as possible! 

 

The agenda will focus our attention on evangelization through NFP programming.  It is copied in this e-mail below. 

 

If you are also intending to register for the NACFLM conference, please take time now and go to:  http://www.nacflm.org/displayconvregister.cfm?convnbr=6370

 

The agenda is so comprehensive that it will help all of us who work in marriage ministry! 

 

 

 

Have a prayerful Holy Week and a joyous Easter!

 

 

 

Theresa Notare, PhD

Assistant Director

NFP Program

USCCB

202-541-3240

nfp@usccb.org

 

 

 

AGENDA

 

8:30 am           Opening Prayer

                        Welcome

Theresa Notare, PhD, Assistant Director, NFPP, USCCB

 

MORNING SESSION

 

8:45 am           Dignitas Personae (Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions)

Richard Doerflinger, MA

Assistant Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, USCCB

 

9:45 am           – Break –

 

10:00 am         Evangelization through NFP Programming

 

“Requiring an NFP Course in Marriage Preparation”

 

Diocese of Phoenix, Cindy Leornard

                         

10:20               Diocese of Fargo, Rachelle Sauvageau

 

10:40               Discussion with participants

 

11:00               - Break -

 

11:10               “NFP Outreach”

Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Joe and Cinda DeVet

 

11:30               Discussion with participants

 

11:50 am         End morning session

 

12:05—12:35 pm–Mass

 

12:00—Lunch

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

 

1:30 pm           “On-line Communication—What it is and Why it Matters”

Pat Garcia, Digital Media, USCCB

 

                        “Turning Your Resources into E-Resources”

                        Charlotte McCorquodale, PhD, Ministry Training Source

 

2:30 pm           -Break-

 

2:40 pm           NFP E-Education, Part I—Internet Courses

 

Northwest Family Services, Portland, OR

Lauren Fuller

 

 

Institute for NFP, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Richard Fehring, PhD, RN

 

                        Couple to Couple League, Cincinnati, OH

                        Andy Alderson

 

                        Discussion with participants

                       

3:45 pm           - Break -

 

4:00 pm           NFP E-Education, Part II—Services, Resources, and Planning

 

                        NFP International, Inc.

                        John Kippley

 

                        The Pope Paul VI Institute, Omaha, NE

                        Sue Hilgers

           

                        Family of the Americas, Dunkirk, MD

                        Mercedes Wilson

 

                        Billings Ovulation Method Association, St. Cloud, MN

                        Sue Ek

 

                        Discussion with participants

 

 

5:15 pm          Conclusion and Prayer