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CATHOLIC CODE KEY. Sexuality is a gift from God meant to be used in accord with the Giver. For a sacramentally married husband and wife, it is a capacity to participate in the very life of the Holy Trinity. That is, to make God, who is Love, known. In human terms, that means both babies and bonding. We find this truth embedded in words sharing the common root "GEN," as in GENitals and GENder, for the purpose of GENeration.ACCORDING WITH THE GIVER, every sexual act needs to be open to life. Without which, as a most meaningful language, it is a lie: saying one thing but about the opposite. The very word "contraception" punctuates this: "against" (contra) "life" (ception). IN "GRAVE" OR "SERIOUS" CIRCUMSTANCES (per Christ's timeless teaching through His church, punctuated by Paul VI in "Humanae Vitae") a couple can practice this self-mastery to avoid spousal intimacy in times of fertility. Typically referred to as Natural Family Planning, identification of this period of fertility involves three consecutive days of a woman's temperature rise. THIS "CATHOLIC CODE" is a bit of humor from the husband's standpoint, usually ever-eager, and suggesting that his temperature rise should count! God embedded this sacred, holy desire in a married couple to participate in His Inner Life, as a means to physically populate and spiritually form children for His Kingdom. It's a holy "urge." One that must be mastered in order to truly be given away. In order to be gift. Without which there is only a using of persons. As Pope St John Paul II intimated, the heart of this urge is the urge to a completion that can only be found in God.JOIN THE ADVENTURE OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY https://ILoveMyFamily.us