Walking with Jesus.
While it is true that systematic natural family planning can stand on its own merits as a method of birth control, it is also true that periodic abstinence can test our resolve and offer us real temptations to engage in immoral sexual activities during the fertile time. Through faith we know that the narrow way of Jesus is the only way to true happiness, and we know that He calls us to take up our cross daily and to follow him. We know that Jesus came to save us and to teach us how to love. Even so, we are weak and we can feel like St. Paul who wrote about his weaknesses. We need the help of the Lord to overcome these temptations, and we need to remember that He revealed to St. Paul that He provides the grace necessary to overcome temptations (see 2 Cor 12:9). It is unwise to think we are not going to be tempted, and it is stupid not to pray to the Lord for the graces we need to overcome them.
The right kind of NFP course will deal realistically with the difficulty of chaste abstinence and will relate it to the doctrine of the daily cross.
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