{"id":8234,"date":"2003-04-08T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/08\/the-contraceptive-mysteries\/"},"modified":"2003-04-08T19:12:23","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T00:12:23","slug":"the-contraceptive-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/the-contraceptive-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contraceptive Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Vere at Envoy Encore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.envoymagazine.com\/EnvoyEncore\/Detail.asp?BlogID=630\">posted<\/a> about<br \/>\na recent talk he gave:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articles\">My own talk discussed the difference between marriage as a contract and marriage<br \/>\nas a covenant, then spoke of the canonical effects of contraception on marriage,<br \/>\nbefore going into a comparison between contraception and the Rosary. My conclusion?<br \/>\nPrior to drafting this talk, I had never really thought of it in this light,<br \/>\nbut it became obvious to me that contraception is the very anti-thesis to the<br \/>\nRosary. This shook up a few people in the crowd, including a Catholic radio<br \/>\njournalist who interviewed me on this part of my talk afterward. So overall,<br \/>\na great time! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since he did not elaborate exactly the connections I came up with my own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The Contraceptive Mysteries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Best prayed on worry beads.  First you say the &#8211; I won&#8217;t be &#8216;Your Father&#8217; followed by three hail and be merrys.   Then concentrate and think selfish thoughts while pondering the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The Denunciation<br \/>\n<\/strong>My will be done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The Hesitation<\/strong><br \/>\nWe will have children after our careers are settled down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The Negativity<br \/>\n<\/strong>Children will disrupt our active lifestyle and we don&#8217;t have enough<br \/>\nto send them all to Ivy League schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The Present Tension<br \/>\n<\/strong>In everyday life we must avoid every sword that could pierce us to the soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"><strong>The finding of just us in the Temporal<br \/>\n<\/strong>We do not want to be about the Father&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Vere at Envoy Encore posted about a recent talk he gave: My own talk discussed the difference between marriage as a contract and marriage as a covenant, then spoke&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}