MP 035: Natural Family Planning in a GMO world
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
"With great power comes great responsibility"
~ Ben Parker (Spiderman's Uncle)
As Catholics, we have a great blessing in the clarity and beauty of the Church's teaching on contraception. Using the natural rhythms of a woman's cycle to regulate birth is a way that couples can use the reason of science as they are informed by the light of Faith. NFP is a gift, but it's also a challenge! It's hard to deny our bodies when our culture is telling us that we deserve every comfort as well as instant gratification. In this podcast, we talk about the gift of NFP, but also the reality of the cross of denying ourselves. Listen in and tell us what you think!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:10.3 | And as you may be familiar, this is not a show about experts or expert advice. |
| 0:16.9 | We're sharing some of the ups and downs of the 21 years of our marriage and raising 10 kids still in process, ages 3 to 20, our children, that is. |
| 0:28.8 | And today we have an interesting topic. |
| 0:31.6 | On the topic that we actually don't have a lot of street credit about because we have 10 children. |
| 0:35.8 | I know, I know. |
| 0:37.4 | But, you know, I think. But, but, you know, |
| 0:38.4 | I think the, the, the quote that we've decided for today is, uh, from the, um, the profit of |
| 0:44.5 | the day, Spider-Man, or at least the Spider-Man movies, with great power comes great responsibility. |
| 0:51.2 | So with that, we are going to talk about sex. |
| 0:55.6 | So this is not a podcast that probably, it's not going to be too graphic or anything like that, |
| 1:01.2 | but we don't think it would necessarily be the best for little years. |
| 1:05.8 | So this is mature audience content. |
| 1:08.8 | Right, because I don't want to hold back. |
| 1:10.0 | We want to speak honestly so if you're |
| 1:11.8 | listening to this in your carpool run with your 12 year old maybe it would be a better time that |
| 1:16.3 | listen to it another time hit the pause button save it for later you and your husband maybe are right |
| 1:21.4 | or spouse exactly so anyway so you want to go ahead and pray mike yeah in the name of the father and the |
| 1:27.3 | son of the holy Spirit, amen. |
| 1:28.6 | Amen. |
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