Have I ever been alone?

I asked myself: why should I be alone?

Now, I know I never was alone.

God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saint Mary, the apostles, the other saints and the angels.
How can I be alone if they are with me every time?

Today, I remembered about my moments of solitude, when I lived alone.

My house was always crowed, but I was always alone. Nobody talked to me.

In January of 2008, I met God and I understood God preserved me of all the bad things.

In the Holy Bible, the prophets and the apostles, for example, had been alone, but God was with them.

When the apostles traveled to many places, for evangelize, many times they are alone.

When King Saul wanted to capture David, we can read (1 Samuel 18, 11 - 15):

"Saul brandished the spear;
he said, 'I will pin David to the wall!'
David evaded him twice.
Saul feared David, since Yahweh was with him
and had withdrawn from Saul.
So Saul removed him from his presence
and appointed him commander of a thousand;
he led the people on campaign.
In all his expeditions, David was successful
and Yahweh was with him.
And Saul, seeing how very successful he was,
was afraid of him."

If God is with me, then who is against me?

David was alone, and he won the King Saul and his army of one thousand.

PS.: Yahweh is the name that God chose for Himself. Yahweh means "I am".

San Francisco of Assis

I'm using a Franciscans' Tau, like the following image, since last Sunday.


I studied about it and found interesting informations.

The Tau was cited on the Holy Bible in Ezequiel 9, 1-7 (some translations shows a cross and others show a Tau):

"Then he shouted loudly for me to hear,
'The scourges of the city are approaching,
each carrying his weapon of destruction!'
Immediately six men advanced from the upper north gate,
each holding a deadly weapon.
Among them was a man dressed in linen,
with a scribe's ink-horn in his belt.
They came in and halted in front of the bronze altar.
The glory of the God of Israel
rose from above the winged creature
where it had been,
towards the threshold of the Temple.
He called to the man dressed in linen
with a scribe's ink-horn in his belt
and Yahweh said to him,
'Go all through the city,
all through Jerusalem,
and mark a cross on the foreheads of all
who grieve and lament over all the loathsome practices in it.'
I heard him say to the others,
'Follow him through the city and strike.
Not one glance of pity;
show no mercy; old men, young men, girls, children, women,
kill and exterminate them all.
But do not touch anyone with a cross on his forehead.
Begin at my sanctuary.'
So they began with the old men
who were in the Temple.
He said to them,
'Defile the Temple;
fill the courts with corpses;
then go out!'
They went out
and hacked their way through the city."

The Tau (or cross) represents the salvation of that people and the God's love for us.

God loves everybody, but many people don't match His love.

Jesus will come back and He will judge everybody with the perfect justice.

Why was Jesus crucified?

I'm happy today, here is the first comment on Catholic-Engineer. I received the comment yesterday, but I read it today.

Thank you so much Chishino, God used your comment for inspire me about this post, I ask to God that He bless you. I'm praying for you since today.

This is a great question: why was Jesus crucified?

God loves His Son, why did God do nothing?

I say God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, for any day.

Now, about the happened.

Jesus was crucified because the humanity had, and have yet, many sins.

Every sin is bad and must to be paid.

When Jesus died crucified, He paid for the sins, it's true! But we need this, if Jesus died for our sins, He had no sins, then we should be thankful.

God gave me the text, that I read (II Corinthians 1, 12):

"There is one thing that we are proud of,
namely our conscientious conviction
that we have always behaved towards everyone,
and especially towards you,
with that unalloyed holiness that comes from God,
relying not on human reasoning
but on the grace of God."

If you know why Jesus was crucified and you do wrong things yet, thus you are wasting your salvation.

Jesus went to the cross because you should have gone, but He loves you and He decided: "I'll died in your place".

The sins are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, because the Daemon is the same.

Let's pray now (this is to you, Chishino. Don't forget God loves you and He wants you love Him):

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Celebrate, Jesus lives among us

I was praying and God "sings" a music called Celebrate (Celebrai, in Portuguese).

I felt that God wants a translation of this music to English, so:

Celebrate

Celebrate to Christ, Celebrate. Celebrate to Christ, Celebrate.

He resurrected, He resurrected, and He lives forever! He resurrected, He resurrected, and He lives forever!

Let's celebrate! Let's celebrate!

Let's celebrate because God resurrected our Lord.

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This is a free translation. The music is very convenient for the Easter because we celebrate the resurrection of Christ.

Here you can listen the music in Portuguese. The song starts on the female voice.

Marcos Goes - Celebrai a cristo


C'mon everybody, let's celebrate!

Who wrote the Holy Bible?

The Holy Bible has two parts: Old Testament and New Testament.

The Old Testament was written before 1 DC.

Each Testament has some books, like Genesis, I Samuel, II Samuel, Luke, Acts of Apostles, etc... And each book has it own history.

The books of prophets were written by the prophets, like Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Daniel, Maccabees, etc... Other books of the Old Testament, like Genesis, was written by priests under divine inspiration.

The New Testament was written after the crucifixion and resuscitation of Jesus by the apostles, when they were full of the Holy Spirit.

Everybody who wrote the Holy Bible was under divine inspiration, and God said what He wants that was written on the text.

Why is my family like this?

Jesus says (Matthew 10, 32):

'So if anyone declares himself for me
in the presence of human beings,
I will declare myself for him
in the presence of my Father in heaven.'

And He continues (Matthew 10, 33 - 39):

'But the one who disowns me
in the presence of human beings,
I will disown in the presence of my Father in heaven.
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth:
it is not peace I have come to bring,
but a sword.
For I have come to set son against father,
daughter against mother,
daughter-in-law against mother-in-law;
a person's enemies will be the members
of his own household.
No one who prefers father or mother to me is worthy of me.
No one who prefers son or daughter to me is worthy of me.
Anyone who does not take his cross
and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me.
Anyone who finds his life will lose it;
anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.'

Do your family do wrong things?

• They don't give alms for poor.
• They want to be rich.
• They think money provides happiness.

Believe it! Jesus will declare Himself for you in presence of God.

But, if you may help your family then Jesus will raise you up to the heaven.

Jesus loves you with the Holy Spirit that's the love of the own God.

Ask for the Holy Spirit and you will receive what you want.

Why wars happen?

The world wars, for example, were tragedies of the humanity.

Why wars happen?

Why cannot we be friends?

Why did God let wars happen?

You can think: "If God loves us then He have to care us".

God really loves us, but He doesn't change our lives.

If we want to have happiness, then we have to be friends of our enemies (Matthew 5, 43-45).

"'You have heard how it was said,
You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy.
But I say this to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;
so that you may be children of your Father in heaven,
for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as well as the good,
and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike."

We can decide for ourself, but we can listen God before do anything.

If you ask to God: "Help me, my Father! How can I do it?", He will say what you have to do.

Do the test, say to God your problems and pray a Hail Mary. After, open a Bible in any page and read the first thing that you see.