Natural Family Planning

Receiving fertility as a gift. Discerning family life with faith, prayer, and love.

God invites married and engaged couples, families, clergy, parish leaders, young adults, parents, and teens to always be discovering the beauty of the Church’s teaching on: 

• fertility 
• married love, and 
• openness to life

Natural Family Planning is more than a method. It is part of a Catholic vision of marriage in which fertility is received as a gift from God, spouses grow in communication and trust, and the family becomes a place where love and life are welcomed with generosity.

“As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING AWARENESS WEEK 
July 19 - 25, 2026

Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week is held each July to commemorate the anniversary of Humanae Vitae (issued on July 25, 1968). This papal encyclical by Pope Paul VI articulates Catholic teachings on human sexuality, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood. 

This week gives parishes, families, and ministries a shared opportunity to speak about NFP with confidence and compassion. It is a time to pray for marriages, support engaged and married couples, encourage parents, and help young people understand the dignity of the body.

Download the Parish Media Package and Toolkit at this link. 

Upcoming Events

Natural Family Planning 101: God's Plan for Fertility lectures with Jennifer Medal in London and Windsor. Click here to register. You can download this image below as a poster (PDF) at this link.

What Is Natural Family Planning?

Natural Family Planning (NFP) helps couples understand and honour the gift of fertility while discerning God’s will for their family. It works with the body as God designed it and invites husband and wife to approach family life together through prayer, conversation, self-giving love, and responsible discernment.

Natural Family Planning helps women and couples understand the body’s natural fertility signs — such as changes in body temperature, discharge, hormone levels, and other markers — so they can recognize the fertile window and discern family planning with greater knowledge, confidence, and care.

For married couples, NFP can support the desire to achieve pregnancy, postpone pregnancy for serious reasons, or simply grow in a deeper understanding of the love-giving and life-giving meaning of marriage.

For women, teens, and young adults, fertility education can also foster gratitude for the body, respect for God’s design, and greater awareness of health and well-being.

NFP is not simply information about fertility. It is an invitation to see the body, marriage, and family life through the eyes of faith. 

For more information, please see the videos below

Find a Practitioner

The Diocese of London is grateful for the work of trained Natural Family Planning practitioners who help couples and women understand fertility with professionalism, compassion, and respect for Catholic teaching.

A new Canadian Catholic Natural Family Planning Practitioner Directory is now available through the Family Foundations Institute at https://famfi.ca/natural-family-planning.  

This directory helps families connect with trained practitioners across Canada and learn more about available NFP methods.

Videos