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The Couple Checkup is designed to help you and your
partner build a more satisfying and intimate relationship. Just answering
the questions will stimulate thoughts and attitudes about your relationship.
It is designed to activate dialogue, discovery, and increase the overall
quality of your relationship.
It will help you discover your strengths as a couple. Strengths are what enable you to
enjoy, and to continue developing a healthy relationship. It will also help
you identify issues that are threatening the vitality of your relationship
and may need to be addressed.
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Want to become a parishioner of St. Peter's? Fill out a census
registration form and mail it back to us!
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 Pro-Life Corner ~
Married Love and the Gift of Life
Are Couples Expected to Leave Their Family Size Entirely
to Chance?
Certainly not. The Church teaches that a couple may generously
decide to have a large family, or may for serious reasons choose not
to have more children for the time being or even for an indefinite
period (Humanae Vitae, no. 10).
What Should a Couple Do If They Have a Good Reason to
Avoid Having a Child?
A married couple can engage in marital intimacy during the naturally
infertile times in a woman's cycle, or after child-bearing years,
without violating the meaning of marital intercourse in any way.
This is the principle behind natural family planning (NFP). Natural
methods of family planning involve fertility education that enables
couples to cooperate with the body as God designed it.
(To be continued)
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Prayer to End Abortion
Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life,
and for
the lives of all my brothers and sisters.
I know there is nothing that destroys
more life than abortion,
yet I rejoice
that You haveconquered death by the
Resurrection of Your Son.
I am ready to do my part in ending abortion.
Today, I commit myself never to be silent,
never to be passive,never to be
forgetful of the unborn.
I commit myself to be active in the pro-life movement,
and never to stop
defending life until all my
brothers and sisters are protected,
and our nation
once again becomes a nation
with liberty and justice.
Not just for some, but for all,
through Christ our Lord. Amen!
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Secretariat for Community Services
1408 Carmel Drive
Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
Telephone: (337) 261-5607
Fax: (337) 261-5560
Office Hours:
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Monday through Thursday
8:30 a.m. - Noon - Friday
Director: Karol Meynard
Secretary: Trista Littell
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Crisis Pregnancy - Abortion Alternatives
Catholic Social Services Adoption Agency (337) 235-5218
Catholic Crises Pregnancy Center (337) 289-9366
Catholic Social Services
Post Adoption Counseling
Catholic Social Services, an adoption and counseling agency, is now offering
post adoption counseling to the community regardless of whether the adoption
was through an attorney or an agency.
This service is available to birth parents, adoptive parents or adult
adoptive persons who want to improve their relationships, expand their
understanding of adoption and its impact, and build on their strengths.
For more information or to make an appointment, please call
Catholic Social Services at 337-261-5654.
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Hope, healing, understanding & support for post abortive women, teens, &
families
Healing after abortion
Reports on pro-life legislation in Congress
A project of Anglicans for Life and Priests for Life
We help them to understand they can reach their dreams and give their baby life too."
Crisis Pregnancy Hotline
The Gabriel Project/Diocese of Lafayette
(337) 261-5607
Lifeline REF/Lafayette - 1-800-256-7222
Lay Catholics dedicated to proclaiming truth for life
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