Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Now the Catholic Church teaches that the regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible

fatherhood motherhood.

Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses, however, do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable

means, like direct sterilization or contraception.

However, it's not enough to know what the church teaches.

More importantly, we need to know why. Why does the church teach this

about contraception? Well, sexual love is supposed to be the body expression, the body language of divine love.

In the Trinity, the love of God is a free and total gift of self, and that gift results in a permanent

union of the divine persons, from which another divine person, the Holy Spirit, springs forth.

So to understand the teaching of Jesus on contraception, we must recall that sexual love is designed by God to be the body language that speaks the divine love.

In marital relations we are saying with our bodies I am giving a

free and total gift of myself to you and I am giving a permanent indesiable gift of self and

this gift is ordered to new life. To say anything less or different with our bodies in the act of marital intercourse is a lie.

And it is not love, it is use, because it would not reflect the love of God. So to have sex is to say with

your body I am giving a free and total gift of myself to you, and I'm giving

a permanent indesiable gift of self, and this gift is ordered to new life.

But if we don't mean that, and yet we say it, then we are lying.

Our father who arts in heaven,, hollow would be your name. Thy kingdom come, I will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us the stare daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead

us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen.

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