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1994 - YEAR OF THE FAMILY LETTER TO FAMILIES FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II Dear Families!

IOANNES PAULUS PP. II EVANGELIUM VITAE To the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women religious lay Faithful and all People of Good Will on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life 1995.03.25

DIVINI ILLIUS MAGISTRI ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE MOTION PICTURE VIGILANTI CURA

MOTU PROPRIO PRIMO FELICITER

ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS XII BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE POPE TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS AND OTHER ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE ON MOTION PICTURES, RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRANDA PRORSUS

SUMMI PONTIFICATUS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE UNITY OF HUMAN SOCIETY TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN: THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE

MATER ET MAGISTRA ENCYCLICAL OF POPE JOHN XXIII ON CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS MAY 15, 1961

HUMANAE VITAE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI ON THE REGULATION OF BIRTH JULY 25, 1968

POPULORUM PROGRESSIO ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES MARCH 26, 1967 To the Blshops, Priests, Religious, and Faithful of the Whole Catholic World, and to All Men of Good Will.

ADDRESS OF JOHN PAUL I TO A GROUP OF AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR «AD LIMINA » VISIT Thursday, 21 September 1978

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO THE EPISCOPATE TO THE CLERGY AND TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN THE MODERN WORLD INTRODUCTION The Church at the Service of the Family

HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL
Pro-Life Missionaries To The World

FAMILY VALUES VERSUS SAFE SEX A Reflection by His Eminence, ALFONSO CARDINAL LÓPEZ TRUJILLO President, Pontifical Council for the Family December 1, 2003


Mother Teresa "It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish."

Pope John Paul II "...God in His deepest mystery is not a solitude, but a family, since He has in Himself fatherhood, sonship, and the essence of the family, which is love..."

Saint Ignatius of Antioch "...Make no mistake, brethren; the corrupters of families will not inherit the kingdom of God..."

Sacred Space. Some areas are proper to God and some areas are proper to man or angels. Man is not the arbitrator of life. Artificial contraception or abortion is a violation of "sacred space". Sin of any kind, subverts and destroys unity. Sin can be the love of oneself, even to the contempt of truth; contempt of God. Sin has its primordial roots, ( it's echos ) in the disobedience of Adam and Eve ( Genesis 3:5 ) "you will be like God". Satan and the angels had violated "sacred space" and also suffered the consequences: "...6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home–these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day..." ( Jude 1:6 ). In part, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, and Genesis 4:1 are about the idea of "sacred space". Some areas are proper to man and some areas are proper to God. Man cooperates with God in procreating new life, but man is not the arbitrator of life. Couples should be open to the possibility of new life within marriage. In part, the fall of man in Genesis 3 is about disobedience; a violation of "sacred space". Their is one truth. Truth is a matter of life and death - choose life! Truth is a person - Jesus Christ ( Jn. 14:6 ).

Genesis 1:26-28 ( NIV )
26 Then God said, "...Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it..."

Genesis 2:16-17 ( NASB )*
16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."

Genesis 4:1 ( NASB )* Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."

John 7:37-38 ( NASB )
37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink."
38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

1 Timothy 6:12-14 ( NASB )
12 "...Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
14 that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ..."

Ephesians 5 ( Please read all of Ephesians 5: Be Imitators of God. Marriage like Christ and the Church )

* [In part, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, and Genesis 4:1 are about the idea of "sacred space". Some areas are proper to man and some areas are proper to God. Man cooperates with God in procreating new life, but man is not the arbitrator of life. Couples should be open to the possibility of new life within marriage. In part, the fall of man in Genesis 3 is about disobedience; a violation of "sacred space".]

Five Covenant Families:

• One Holy Family
• Tribe
• Nation
• Kingdom
• Holy Church

I highly recommend you "A Course in the Theology of the Body: Naked Without Shame", 2^nd Edition, by Christopher West. It is an excellent course on sex and the meaning of life as explained in "Theology of the Body" by Pope John Paul II. Please visit The Christopher West web site. for additional information and to order this course.

( TEV )

Song of Songs
The Third Song

1 How beautiful you are, my love!
How your eyes shine with love behind your veil.
Your hair dances like a flock of goats
bounding down the hills of Gilead.
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Many thanks to Nicholas Marmalejo, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for his permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.

From Celebrate Life Magazine, January/February 2002
Contraception is Anti-God
By Msgr. Vincent Foy

God had not called to immorality, but to holiness.
– St. Paul to the Thessalonians

Father John Hardon, S.J., was surely one of the greatest theologians of the last century. Toward the end of his life, he gave a lecture entitled, "Our greatest moral responsibility: to convert the contraceptive mentality." Click here to read more.




Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.

From Celebrate Life Magazine, March/April 2002
Contraception is Anti-Church
By Msgr. Vincent Foy

The Catholic Church has been described as the continuation of the salvific mission of Christ to the world. Vatican II tells us, "The Church has the duty by divine mandate of going out into the whole world and preaching the Gospel to all men," and goes on to underscore the work of evangelization as the fundamental duty of the people of God in saying: "Let all realize that their first and most important obligation toward the spread of the Faith is this: to lead a profoundly Christian life" ( Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church, n. 30 ). Click here to read more.




Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.

From Celebrate Life Magazine, September/October, 2002
Contraception is Anti-Spousal
By Msgr. Vincent Foy

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that marriage is "by its very nature ordered to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring" ( n. 1601 ). Since it is ordered to the good of the spouses, it can and should be a means to help them pursue together their glorious call to holiness. Click here to read more.




Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.

From Celebrate Life Magazine, November/December 2002
GUIDANCE
Contraception is Anti-Self
By Msgr. Vincent Foy

By our nature we have an inescapable love of ourselves. But because God is love and we are conceived in and for love, God has decreed that true love of self cannot exist without love of others. So we have the paradox that the more we love God and others, to that degree do we truly love ourselves. Click here to read more.