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1) Contraception Mentality
In her book: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God’s Beautiful Design for Marriage, Kimberly Hahn makes an effort to share her thoughts on Catholic Church teaching on God’s gift of sex and how contraception can damage God’s plan for how we are to use this great gift from God. The following (in bold) is a quote from her book:
In 1930, the Anglican’s Lambeth Conference in England became the first official Christian body to approve the use of contraception in the most severe cases. In response, a Jesuit, Fr. David Lord, wrote the following analysis.
1. Birth control destroys the difference between prostitutes and respectable women by eliminating the ideal of motherhood and substituting the ideal of personal pleasure and self-gratification.
2. Birth control leads to infidelity by destroying self-restraint and self-discipline. For unmarried folk it banishes fear of consequences.
3. Birth control prevents noble faculty by refusal to co-operate with God in creation of children and substitutes for it, pleasure.
4. Birth control affects the future. Substituting self-gratification for children, (those using it) strike at the very source of human life. -
3) Children Are Always a Blessing
“Children are only and always a blessing. No Scripture or Church document declares a downside of openness to life. They contain no words of “wisdom” about the child as a burden or an expense or a barrier to the parents’ careers or education. Yet many people today, including Christians, do not view children as the unmitigated blessing they are.
Children are not possessions, the next thing to acquire after a car, a house, and a dog. They are not a bonus earned but a gift freely given. Children are not the next item on the agenda once a couple is well established and can afford children. They are not the next venture, once a couple has managed the discipline and care of a dog and feel ready for more of a challenge.
Children are not something a couple deserves just because they are, in fact, better than others having children these days. They are not something to which people are entitled if they are good people or wealthier people.Children do not have value because we give it to them. They have value for their own sake because they are created in his image. Children are pure gift.”
Hahn, Kimberly Life-Giving Love: Embracing God’s Beautiful Design for Marriage (Ann Arbor, MI: Charis Servant Publications, 2001) -
2) God Still Loves You
The best a mom or dad can hope for is a boy or a girl. Only God could hope for you… - G.K. Chesterton
God still loves you!!!
The word of the LORD came to me: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. (Jeremiah 1:4&5)
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