On Sunday, July 20th, the Natural Family Planning Task Force of the Diocese of Allentown will host a Family Mass to be celebrated at St. Catharine of Siena, Reading, at 11:30 a.m. by His Excellency Bishop Alfred A. Schlert to mark the beginning of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Natural Family Planning Awareness Week.
The USCCB explains on their website that Natural Family Planning Awareness Week highlights the anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae on July 25th “which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood,” and the feast of St. Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Mother, whose feast day Pope Francis named Grandparent’s Day.
Bishop Robert Barron, Chairman of the bishops’ Committee for Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth for the USCCB, shares in a video that Natural Family Planning Awareness Week is “the Catholic Church’s educational campaign to promote Catholic teaching on marital love and the way that Natural Family Planning can be used to support husbands and wives in living out their vocation.”
Bishop Barron believes that the week is a great opportunity because he believes that Humanae Vitae could not be a more “misunderstood document.”
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