Also, for NFP, the attitude is supposed to be that you are postponing pregnancy (even if that postponement is indefinite to the point where you never conceive) because there is a barrier that makes conception imprudent and incompatible with what God is calling you to do. A child can never be seen as a bad outcome or a "failure" of a method.
Children have to be welcomed and always viewed positively because they are the walking around incarnations of the expressed love between the spouses, and what a wonderful thing that the love you share is so powerful that God uses it to form a whole other person from the basis of your love. Any animosity towards the conception of a child in a marriage is flat out not ok for Catholics. Children may or may not come about in any given marriage, due to any number of factors, but the full and free gift of self (including a willingness for your love to bear fruit) is fundamental to Catholic marriage. An unwillingness to accept children as part of a marriage for us invalidates a marriage.
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:14 pm (UTC)Children have to be welcomed and always viewed positively because they are the walking around incarnations of the expressed love between the spouses, and what a wonderful thing that the love you share is so powerful that God uses it to form a whole other person from the basis of your love. Any animosity towards the conception of a child in a marriage is flat out not ok for Catholics. Children may or may not come about in any given marriage, due to any number of factors, but the full and free gift of self (including a willingness for your love to bear fruit) is fundamental to Catholic marriage. An unwillingness to accept children as part of a marriage for us invalidates a marriage.