Resources
Nothing Under a Bushel Basket
The Blessed Are They Library
A growing collection of what we have made and what we trust.
Everything here is medically accurate & rooted in the Theology of the Body.
blessed ARE THEY approved.
“Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house.”
Matthew 5:15
Filter by life stage
For Girls
Before and through puberty
Childhood
Handout · Ours
Preparing for the First Cycle
Download PDFHygiene and body care before menarche, so the first cycle arrives expected rather than alarming.
Childhood
Chart · Ours
My First Cycle Chart
Download PDFA first chart to keep, with room to record what happens each day and what it means.
Adolescent
Chart · Ours
Monthly Cycle Chart
Download PDFA month at a time, to keep track of the pattern once the first cycles have come and gone.
Adolescent
Chart · Ours
Cycle Charting for Teens
Download PDFCharting the full cycle, what each phase means, and what is worth telling a doctor about.
Adolescent
Guide · Ours
Phases of the Menstrual Cycle
Download PDFThe four phases for teens — what happens in each one and what it means for how she feels.
Adolescent
Guide · Ours
Hygiene & Body Care
Practical care through puberty, framed around dignity rather than embarrassment.
For Women
Fertility through the later years
Young Adult
Guide · Ours
Fertility Awareness Basics
An introduction to fertility awareness–based methods and how to learn one properly.
Married
Guide · Curated
Natural Family Planning
What the methods are, how they differ, and where to find a trained instructor.
Later Years
Guide · Ours
Perimenopause Supplement Guide
What changes, what helps, and what is worth asking your physician — from an OB/GYN.
For Boys
Growing up, and growing into it
Adolescent
Guide · Ours
Growing Up: The Basics
Age-appropriate anatomy and what to expect, for a boy and the parent teaching him.
Teen
Guide · Ours
Hygiene & Body Care
Practical care through puberty, written the way a father would want it said.
Teen
Guide · Ours
Dignity in the Digital Age
Safeguarding the dignity of the human person in the digital age.
For Men
Self-mastery, marriage, fatherhood
Young Adult
Guide · Curated
Chastity as Strength
What the Church actually teaches about self-mastery, and why it is not a restriction.
Married
Guide · Ours
Fertility, Together
Understanding your wife’s cycle and sharing responsibility for it.
For Couples
Preparing for marriage, and living it
Engaged
Prayer · USCCB
NFP Week Prayer Card
Download PDFA printable card for Natural Family Planning Week from the USCCB — for a nightstand, a fridge, or a parish pew.
Engaged
Guide · Ours
Before the Wedding
What to settle together about children, charting, and intimacy before the day arrives.
Engaged
Guide · Curated
Choosing a Method Together
How the major methods compare, and how to find an instructor who will teach you both.
Married
Chart · Ours
Charting as Two
Reading the chart together, so postponing or pursuing a pregnancy is a shared decision.
Married
Guide · Ours
When Conceiving Is Hard
Restorative approaches to infertility and loss, and where to find physicians who practice them.
Married
Guide · Ours
Postpartum & the Return of Fertility
Breastfeeding, irregular cycles, and how to chart in the season with the least sleep.
Married
Books · Curated
Reading for Two
Theology of the Body for married life — short enough to read aloud in an evening.
For Parents
How to say it before they need to hear it
Childhood
Parent Guide · Ours
Preparing for the First Cycle
Download PDFThe companion to your daughter’s handout — how to have the conversation early, and what to have ready.
Childhood
Checklist · Ours
First Menses Kit
Download PDFWhat to pack in the bag she keeps in her backpack, so she is never caught without it.
All stages
Guide · Ours
Conversation Starters
Openers and answers for the questions that arrive in the car and at bedtime.
What This Rests On
We did not invent this teaching. These are the documents it comes from — read them yourself.
Encyclical · 1968
Humanae Vitae
Read at Vatican.vaPaul VI on married love and the transmission of life — the document most often described and least often read.
Catecheses · 1979–84
Theology of the Body
Audiences at Vatican.vaJohn Paul II’s Wednesday audiences on the body as a sign of the person. The ground floor of everything here.
Instruction · 1987
Donum Vitae
Read at Vatican.vaOn the dignity of human life at its origin, and the questions reproductive technology puts to it.
Encyclical · 1930
Casti Connubii
Read at Vatican.vaPius XI on Christian marriage — the teaching stated plainly, decades before it became contested.
Exhortation · 1981
Familiaris Consortio
Read at Vatican.vaJohn Paul II on the family, and on the parents’ own right and duty to educate their children in this.
Catechism · 1992
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Read at Vatican.vaGod’s plan for love and sexuality, stated directly. Four passages carry most of it:
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The library grows as we write and as we find work worth passing on. Tell us what you are looking for and we will put it on the list.
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