Like dance lessons, NFP requires learning
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Each year, third-year theology students at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary write a homily on natural family planning as part of their Marriage, Family and Sexuality course. The semester-long course provides seminarians with a better understanding of the Church’s teachings on marriage and sexuality, and the use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System and NFP.
Homilies are entered in a contest sponsored by the Office of Natural Family Planning, and the winner is announced during Natural Family Planning Awareness Week. This year’s winner is Evan Harkins, who is from the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
I have a confession to make: I’ve taken dance lessons. Now, I assure you that I’ve never been dancing with the sugar plum fairies in the Nutcracker, but when I was in college, my sister and I took swing dance lessons. We both enjoyed swing music and had seen some impressive dancing so we decided to give it a shot. I had a lot of fun with it, and I began to ask myself why it lost popularity. You may or may not know that today there are dance clubs, and the kind of dancing that goes on there is called “grinding.” Is this just my generation’s version of dancing? But I decided, “No, it wasn’t.” Because there are some real differences between the two styles of dancing.
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