A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMATT)
“Love can wait to give, Lust can’t wait to get.” This is a tagline we borrowed from Jason Evert in his presentation called “Romance Without Regret”. The line about love describes, we think, all who use the Billings Method for family planning purposes. The “waiting” required when practicing this Method accurately is the “love” to which is being referred.
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMA-TT).
At our “Is Love Forever?” seminars we discuss the virtue of chastity and relationships. Part of the seminar is dedicated to the meaning and purpose of marriage. Once, when I arrived at the Power-Point slide on the complementarity between males and females, one young man blurted out that Pope Francis supports “gay marriage”! I quickly corrected him, stating that what the Pope actually said was that he cannot judge our homosexual brothers and sisters, so we as Catholics should not judge them either.
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMA-TT).This is part three of a three-part series that examines Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on human life, Humanae Vitae, from a female perspective.
“Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and the general lowering of moral standards…The young, who are so exposed to temptation, need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law…” (Consequences of Artificial Methods, HV #17).
A monthly column by the Billings Ovulation Method Association of Trinidad and Tobago (BOMATT). This is part two of a three part series that examines Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on human life, Humanae Vitae, from a female perspective.
“…concerning the moral laws governing marriage, that human intelligence has both the right and responsibility to control those forces of irrational nature which come within its ambit and to direct them toward ends beneficial to man…If therefore there are well-grounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that married people may take advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only during those times that are infertile, thus controlling birth in a way which does not in the least offend the moral principles which we have just explained.” (Humanae Vitae #16, Recourse to Infertile Periods)