U. S. study about cohabitation and marriage

Cohabitation and Marriage Intensity

Consolidation, Intimacy, and Commitment

This is the title of a study made in USA and available in the Internet (click here).


In this study, it's possible to confirm that married couples have more consolidation, intimacy and commitment, in fact they are happier.

Married couples say "YES" one to other, and when this "YES" is sincerely said, they don't get married for own happiness, but to made the spouse the happiest.

A couple that doesn't assume a commitment never will be engaged to build anything together. While a couple really committed one to other will mutually help themselves in any occasion.

Being committed and engaged with your spouse is one of hardest decisions that a person can do, but it's full of rewards until you live as well.

And about safe feeling? In special for woman, safe feeling is absolute needed to be fully free for loving and open to receive the rewards of love in marriage, beautiful and blessed babies.

The Church of Christ teaches many trues about marriage, but many times we can not believe in this teachings until see them in a academic published study. We must understand the Church teaches based in centuries of experience and observation, but much of this knowledge is not published in academic or scientific magazines.

For finishing, let's think about our relationships, think about how you are building love for your life, what are your expectations, and if you are disposed to make your spouse the happiest one in the World.

Pray for your future and ask to find what can make you really happy, because happiness in any relationship is not made for own will but shared.

Abortion around the world

I found this site and I though it's good to know about the abortion around the world.

Let's think, you're planning to live in or visit a foreign country, if you're pro-life, what would you think about a country completely pro-abortion?

See the richest countries are pro-abortion, and I say what Jesus said (Matthew 19, 23s):

Then Jesus said to his disciples,

'In truth I tell you,

it is hard for someone rich

to enter the kingdom of Heaven.

Yes, I tell you again,

it is easier for a camel

to pass through the eye of a needle

than for someone rich

to enter the kingdom of Heaven.'

Rich people are inclinable to sins because they are greedy, but, if you're a greedy rich one, you must know your money won't save your soul.

God bless us and teach us the good ways.

Living better each day

I bought a book about the most intelligent saints of the Catholic Church, like St. Augustine, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and some others. This book, written in Brazilian Portuguese, presents the thoughts of them.

The first thought is a St. Augustine's one:

In essentials, unity; freedom in doubt, in all things charity

1 Corinthians 13, 1 - 8:

"Though I command languages both human and angelic
-- if I speak without love,
I am no more than a gong booming
or a cymbal clashing.
And though I have the power of prophecy,
to penetrate all mysteries and knowledge,
and though I have all the faith
necessary to move mountains
-- if I am without love, I am nothing.
Though I should give away to the poor all that I possess,
and even give up my body to be burned
-- if I am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
Love is always patient and kind;
love is never jealous;
love is not boastful or conceited,
it is never rude
and never seeks its own advantage,
it does not take offence or store up grievances.
Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing,
but finds its joy in the truth.
It is always ready to make allowances,
to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
Love never comes to an end.
But if there are prophecies,
they will be done away with;
if tongues, they will fall silent;
and if knowledge, it will be done away with."

Love is the seed for unity, freedom and charity, without love nothing makes sense.

Unity, freedom and charity are desires and gifts of God, the unity of the Holy Spirit, the freedom achieved by Jesus in the cross, and the charity, as we read in Ecclesiasticus 40, 17:

"Charity is a very paradise of blessing and alms giving endures for ever."

About love, it's not a felling, but it's a decision. What you do must be according to God's love for you.

Modesty and romance (legendas em português)

I found the following video and thought it's a great opportunity for sharing my opinion about loving relationships.



I have my girlfriend and fight everyday for win her heart, it makes me very happy because I know my girlfriend's value.

News on Web - what you must know

Hi everyone! I found a great site about our faith: here.

I'd like to comment about this new.

God is fantastic, amazing, and glorious! Let's read what Jesus said in Matthew 25, 31-46:

"When the Son of man comes in his glory,
escorted by all the angels,
then he will take his seat on his throne of glory.
All nations will be assembled before him
and he will separate people one from another
as the shepherd separates sheep from goats.
He will place the sheep on his right hand
and the goats on his left.
Then the King will say to those on his right hand,
'Come, you whom my Father has blessed,
take as your heritage the kingdom prepared for you
since the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you made me welcome,
lacking clothes and you clothed me,
sick and you visited me,
in prison and you came to see me.'
Then the upright will say to him in reply,
'Lord, when did we see you hungry
and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
When did we see you a stranger
and make you welcome,
lacking clothes and clothe you?
When did we find you sick
or in prison and go to see you?'
And the King will answer,
'In truth I tell you,
in so far as you did this to one
of the least of these brothers of mine,
you did it to me.'
Then he will say to those on his left hand,
'Go away from me, with your curse upon you,
to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you never gave me food,
I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink,
I was a stranger and you never made me welcome,
lacking clothes and you never clothed me,
sick and in prison and you never visited me.'
Then it will be their turn to ask,
'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty,
a stranger or lacking clothes,
sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?'
Then he will answer,
'In truth I tell you,
in so far as you neglected to do this to one
of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.'
And they will go away to eternal punishment,
and the upright to eternal life."

This text is big but it says what I want do say. Jesus separates everyone according with our actions, faith, and service to Him.

What have we done for God? Have we gone to hospitals, prisons, orphanages, or nursing homes to visit Him?

The cloistered nuns are doing what they can do for God and His Church. And they could work in their careers, but they know what more important is.

Where the babies come from?

I read some news about the world's population, and I saw many countries are getting old.

Countries like Japan, Spain, Germany and China are giving better conditions for the couples have babies, or more babies.

But why are the babies missing in the market? Where are the babies?

I say: a lot of couples around the world don't believe that God loves them, and He will provide everything the babies will need.

If God allowed the baby was born, He loves the baby and His love will care the baby.

If you don't want to have babies, anything is wrong with you because the procreation is a natural human desire.

Maybe you had a bad dating, and now you thing: I won't have babies because they will suffer on this world.

I say: God loves you, but you need love Him too. If your father tries to talk to you, but you don't do anything, it's complicated.

For finish this post, let's read a Bible's text (Psalms 84, 11-12):

"For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield,
he gives grace and glory;
Yahweh refuses nothing good
to those whose life is blameless.
Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you."

Our faith is our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Believe it, God will help you with your babies created in dignity.
Have a happy family, blessed by Jesus and Mary.

Chastity in the web

I'm very pleased today because I found this channel in YouTube.

I chose two videos about chastity:

What's chastity?

Why chastity?

I wrote about chastity here, but I like to know many opinions and to share the correct opinions always is a good idea.

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.

Who is the Daemon?

I was praying yesterday and I felt that God wants a post about the Daemon, so I said: "The Daemon? Do you want to scare someone?" and He said: "I want to prevent everyone.", so I answer: "Of course my Lord, excuse me and let's write.".

Read the history.

God created the Heaven and after He came out for created the Earth (Genesis 1,1).

Lucifer was the most important angel of God and God let him for manage the Heaven while He was creating the Earth.

God has a throne that is connected to everywhere and Lucifer sat on the God's throne for manage the Heaven.

God was creating the Earth and Lucifer was managing the Heaven, when God returned to Heaven Lucifer said: "I liked the throne. Now, I want to be God and you'll be Lucifer" (the name of the angels are given by the function of each angel). Lucifer wanted to be the creator. And God expelled Lucifer from the throne.

Lucifer was angry and started to disseminate that everyone could be like God: full of light, grace, glory, receive praise of everything, etc. He talked to many angels.

Lucifer and his angels rebel against God. So, God chose Mickael* for the general of His army. Mickael was a simple angel of low patent.

Mickael and Lucifer were fighting with them armies. The grace of God was with Mickael and he won the Lucifer.

Lucifer and his angels went to Earth and they found us, the children of God.

Lucifer and his angels cannot return to Heaven, and, now, they attack us to lead us to sin.

When we want to do anything wrong, maybe it's a attack of Daemon.

We don't need to be scared because God is with us and the Daemon doesn't attack us very frequently.

Mickael is the angel that protects the Catholic Church and he's a winner.



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* Mickael (or Michael) means "Who as God?".

Why is homosexuality wrong?

Let's thing about this question: "why is homosexuality wrong?"

Why is wrong have sex with kids?

Why is wrong have sex with deaths?

Why is wrong have sex with animals?

Why the Catholic Church (and the Christians) says "don't use condoms", "don't have sex before marriage", "live your marriage (conjugal life) with just your husband/wife" and so others things?

The priests don't know anything about sex and sexual pleasure. But they know God and they talk to God, like me.

I have my girlfriend and we are very happy without have sex before our marriage. We know God together and He wants our chastity.

If the Church and the Christians say "don't have love relationship with anyone of the same sex" then it's the desire of God.

Why doesn't God want the homosexuality?

God wants our happiness and our happiness is not pleasure.

We can have the true happiness just in the God's desires.

God created the man and the woman and He said (Genesis 1, 28):

"Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.
Be masters of the fish of the sea,
the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth."

If we don't do what God said then we will have problems, because He created everything and He knows everything and everybody. If God said for us be fruitful and multiply, then we have to do it.

But you say "the priests don't have families".

The priests don't have marriage because God wants them for Him, us and the Church. They can't have a own family because they will have many people for care and save.

I like dating

I have my girlfriend and we are really in love since our first look almost 4 years ago.

We know God (here) and He wants our obedience.

Saint Paul says in I Corinthians Chapter 7, 1 - 4.

"Now for the questions about which you wrote.
Yes, it is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman;
yet to avoid immorality every man should have his own wife and
every woman her own husband.
The husband must give to his wife what she has a right to expect,
and so too the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body,
but the husband does; and in the same way,
the husband does not have authority over his own body,
but the wife does."

Let's read the text. Saint Paul says that we should have just one wife (for man) and husband (for woman), and our bodies are just for our spouse.

We should NOT have sex before the marriage because the sex has 2 purpose: union and reproduction.

The dating is a not committed relationship, while sex is a act that brings people together forever.

The union (in marriage) is forever, one man and his wife are together until the death.

Saint Mark says in Mark Chapter 10, 1 - 12.

"After leaving there, he came into the territory of Judaea and Transjordan.
And again crowds gathered round him,
and again he taught them, as his custom was.
Some Pharisees approached him and asked,
'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?'
They were putting him to the test.
He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?'
They replied, 'Moses allowed us to draw up a writ of dismissal in cases of divorce.'
Then Jesus said to them, 'It was because you were so hard hearted that he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female. This is why a man leaves his father and mother, and the two become one flesh. They are no longer two, therefore, but one flesh. So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.'
Back in the house the disciples questioned him again about this,
and he said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another is guilty of adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another she is guilty of adultery too.' "