Here tonight a story. It's a love story and the way I do with people. And like all stories ...
Once upon a time, two young boys. They were neighbors and shared many things together, including a passion for birds. One day an acquaintance returned from a long trip. They had brought a memory. Two birds with beautiful plumage and whose song charmed the ear. The two children each took one and went home.
The first child placed in a special cage bird. Very large, the bird could fly at will. He ate well and watched over him like a father to his child. However, over time, the bird lost its superb and his singing became less charming. Intrigued by this problem, he went to his friend and neighbor to ask him if he too had this problem.
arrived at his friend, he asked to see the bird. They went to the garden and they went under a big tree. The second boy pointed finger to a spot on the tree, a nest or was the bird. Stunned, the first boy asked if he was afraid that the bird departs. Then he received an answer with a smile and the second boy said, - Yes, maybe, but it will be free and happy as he is happy, I am too.
With these words, the first boy went home, took the bird gently and carried him outside. The bird flew away and never seen again.
End.
The moral of this story is that we allow freedom to the people you love. If you force them to remain at your side, even in a gilded cage, at the earliest opportunity, they will flee and you will not see them again if ever. You will lose something irreplaceable.
Good night reader, may you think about this story.
it's been a while since I've written anything. Not that I do not want to show you how often you are pathetic, but mostly because I did not have time.
Stupidity! We all have 24hrs in a day, why do some people manage to do what they want while others never?
The real reason is I have not taken the time. No, I prefer doing something else, to get some things before others. You go tell me this is normal and you are right ... but then, do not tell me you did not have time. Assume your choice and say at least you have not taken the time. You do at least one step towards the acceptance of yourself.
All this to get to the real value of your time. Plus I'm moving into cities and other places, the more I realize that many of you do not take the time to communicate with its neighbor. You say hello mechanically, without thinking about the real meaning of that word. You do not bother to look at people and their smile, you're pressed for your personal or small problems then you will not be satisfied that your friends and family.
you afraid of strangers so as not to take the time to look at, smile at them, talk to them or send them a sign of friendly hello? If everyone took a little time to smile at people, the world will not go wrong and you would feel much better.
Consider the use of your time, because the number of minutes lost to immerse yourself in your own life for nothing is tremendous.
Tonight surprising result the fact of moving. And yes, if I did not write all the time on your wretched mannerisms, is that I moved.
Have you noticed how ridiculous a move? First, there is the race to see or move, choose the perfect little corner, finding the rare gem and especially affordable price level. Then there is the paperwork. Again and again those damn papers to fetch. And each time you pay. Come
then the race card. Unless you have made reservations to board since 1910, you'll never have enough! Not to mention the packaging. How could we store as much mess. Because this is a brothel. The broken junk, unnecessary items, "things" that can not even remember to use ... Not to mention the dishes accumulated over three generations by our parents and their parents before them. Ugly things that we care ... Why? Because it's sentimental? "Ho, look, this is the attitude that your great-grandmother to eat her wedding dinner. Ridiculous.
Then, once the boxes are made, we must carry everything. Furniture, cardboard, pets, family ... often for several miles. Then they load the cars, trucks and scooters. And once everything is set, as a champion of Tetris, there always has a piece that is wrong and we must all again!
But the most interest is yet to come. Once in the new place to live, the furniture is installed and begins to empty. And that is where the ridiculous really begins. It stores yet, although we had quite realized it was useless, it filled his basement, the attic of the things we do not want or that we can not put in his house / apartment .
But the ultimate is when we realize that we will have to start all this in a few months and the same circus again, again and again.
1. Are you a Christian? Yes, I am a Christian by the grace of God.
2. Why do you say "by the grace of God"? I say "by the grace of God," because being a Christian is a free gift of God all that we could not win.
3. What is the true Christian? The true Christian is one who is baptized, believing and professing the Christian faith, and obeys the legitimate pastors of the Church.
4. What is Christian doctrine? Christian doctrine is the doctrine that Jesus Christ our Lord taught us to show us the way of salvation.
5. Is it necessary to learn the doctrine taught by Jesus Christ? It is certainly necessary to learn the doctrine taught by Jesus Christ, and those who fail to sin gravely.
6. Parents and teachers are they obliged to send their children to catechism and those who depend on them? Parents and teachers are obliged to provide their children and those who depend upon them the teaching of Christian doctrine and they are guilty before God if they do not fulfill this duty.
7. Who are we to receive and learn Christian doctrine? We must receive and learn the Christian doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church.
8. How are we sure that the Christian doctrine that we receive the Holy Catholic Church is the true? We are confident that the Christian doctrine that we receive from the Catholic Church is true, because Jesus Christ, the divine author of this doctrine, the apostles was entrusted to the Church he founded and was mistress infallible of all men, promising him his divine assistance until the end of time.
9. Are there any other evidence of the truth of Christian doctrine? The truth of Christian doctrine is demonstrated also by the eminent holiness of so many men who professed and who profess, by force of heroic martyrs, the wonderful rapidity of its spread in the world and its Full conservation through so many centuries of diverse and ongoing struggles.
10. What are the main parties and most necessary of Christian doctrine? The main parties and most necessary of Christian doctrine are four in number: the Creed, the Pater Noster, the Commandments and the Sacraments.
11. We learn the Creed? The Creed teaches us the main articles of our holy faith.
12. We teach the Pater Noster? The Paternoster teaches us everything we expect from God and everything we have to ask him.
13. We teach the Commandments? The Commandments teach us everything we need to do to please God, and it all boils down to love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
14. We teach the doctrine of the Sacraments? The doctrine of the Sacraments us know the nature and proper use of these means that Jesus Christ established for us to forgive sins, let us his grace, infused and increase in us the virtues of faith, hope and charity.
15. What is the first part of Christian doctrine? The first part of Christian doctrine is the Apostles' Creed, commonly called the "Credo."
16. Why do you call the Creed "Apostles' Creed? The Creed is called "Apostles' Creed" because it is an abstract truths of the faith taught by the apostles.
17. How many are there articles in the Creed? ago, in the Creed, twelve articles.
18. Recite them. 1. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; 2. and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord, 3. who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, 4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried 5. He descended into hell, and the third day he rose from the dead, 6. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, 7. whence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. 8. I believe in the Holy Spirit, 9. the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, 10. the forgiveness of sins, 11. the resurrection of the flesh, 12. to eternal life. Amen.
19. What does the word "Credo, I believe," you say at the beginning of the Creed? The word "Credo, I believe, means: I am absolutely true to everything that is contained in these twelve articles, and I believe more strongly that if I saw with my eyes, because God, who can neither deceive nor be deceived person, has revealed these truths to the Holy Catholic Church and through it we found ourselves.
20. Contained in the articles of the Creed? The articles of the Creed contains the main things we must believe about God, Jesus Christ and the Church his bride.
21. Is it useful to recite the Creed often? It is very useful often recite the Creed to print more and more in our hearts the truths of faith.
22. Teaches us that the first article: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth"? The first article of the Creed teaches us that there is one God, he is omnipotent, he created heaven, earth and all things therein, that is to say the entire universe.
23. How do we know there is a God? We know there is a God because our reason shows us that faith and we confi rm.
24. Why do we give to God the Father's name? It gives God the name of the Father: • because it is inherently Father of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, that is to say that the Son was begotten • because God is the Father of all men he has created, and it retains that governs; • Finally, because it is the Father through the grace of all good Christians, called for that the adoptive son of God.
25. Why Is the Father the First Person of the Blessed Trinity? The Father is the first Person of the Blessed Trinity because it does not make another one, but it is the principle of two other persons, that is to say, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
26. What does the word "almighty"? The word "omnipotent" means that God can do whatever he wants.
27. God can neither sin nor die: how does one say when he can do anything? It is said that God can do anything, though he can not sin or die, because the power of sin or die is not an effect of power but of weakness, and may not be in God who is infinitely perfect.
28. That means "Creator of heaven and earth"? "Create" means "do nothing": as God is called the Creator of heaven and earth because he has done nothing the heaven, earth and all things therein, that is ie the entire universe.
29. The world has been created only by the Father? The world was also created by the three divine Persons, because everything what does a person on the creatures, the others are doing it in one document.
30. Why is it creating attributed specifically to the Father? Creation is attributed specifically to the Father because creation is an effect of the omnipotence of God and the omnipotence is attributed specifically to the Father, the Son as the wisdom and goodness to the Holy Spirit, although three Persons are equally powerful, wise and good.
31. Did God care for the world and all things he created? Yes, God takes care of the world and all the things he has created and it preserves and governs by his infinite goodness and wisdom, and nothing happens here on earth without God grant or permit.
32. Why do you say that nothing happens in this world without God grant or permission? They say nothing happens here on earth without God grant or permit, because there are things that God wants and commands, and others he does not like sin.
33. Why does God does not sin? God does not sin, because even the fact that abuse of human freedom he has been granted, he knows to remove a property and still shine more or mercy or His justice.
§ 2. Angels .
34. What are the noblest creatures that God created? The noblest creatures created by God are angels.
35. What are angels? Angels are purely spiritual and intelligent creatures.
36. For what purpose did God create the angels? God created the angels to be honored and served by them, and make them eternally happy.
37. What form and figure have angels? Angels have neither form nor figure significant because they are pure spirits created by God to survive without being united to a body.
38. Why do we represent the angels in visible forms? It represents the angels under sensible forms: • to help our imagination to conceive; • because that is how they often appeared to men, as we read in Holy Scripture.
39. The angels they all were faithful to God? No, the angels were not all faithful to God, but many of them claimed to be equal by her pride and be independent of him, and because of this sin, they were excluded for ever from Paradise and condemned to hell .
40. How are called angels forever excluded from Paradise and condemned to hell? Angels excluded for ever from Paradise and condemned to hell are called demons and their leader is called Lucifer or Satan.
41. Demons Can we do something wrong? Yes, demons, God gives them permission, can do much harm and our soul and our body, especially for us to sin by temptation.
42. Why do they tempt us? demons tempt us because we are the envy and desire that makes them our eternal damnation, and because of their hatred against God whose image shines in us. And God allows temptations, so that we triomphions with the help of grace, and so we practiced the virtues we acquire merits for heaven.
43. How can we overcome the temptations? It triumph of temptations by vigilance, by prayer and Christian mortification.
44. How are called angels who remained faithful to God? Angels who remained faithful to God are called angels, spirits or simply heavenly angels.
45. What became of the angels remained faithful to God? Angels remained faithful to God were confirmed in grace. They enjoy forever the sight of God they love, bless and praise forever.
46. God uses it as the angels of his ministers? Yes, God uses the angels as his ministers, and, in particular, he asked many of them the burden of being our guardians and protectors.
47. Do we have a special devotion to our guardian angel? Yes, we must have a special devotion to our Guardian Angel, honor, support his claim, follow his inspirations, and be grateful for the assistance that we continually ready.
§ 3. Man .
48. What is the most noble creature that God put on earth? the noblest creature that God has put on earth is man.
49. What is man? Man is a creature composed of a reasonable soul and body.
50. What is the soul? The soul is the noblest part of man, because she is a spiritual substance, endowed with intelligence and will, capable of knowing God and to possess forever.
51. Can we see and touch the human soul? can neither see nor touch our soul, because it is a spirit.
52. The soul human she dies with the body? The human soul never dies: faith and reason itself prove that it is immortal.
53. The man is free in his actions? Yes, man is free in his actions and each feels in himself that he can do something or not do it, do one thing rather than another.
54. Explain, for example, that human freedom. If I tell a lie deliberately, I feel I could not say it and say nothing, and I could also talk differently by telling the truth.
55. Why do we say that man was created in the image and likeness of God? is said that man was created in the image and likeness of God, because the human soul is spiritual and reasonable, free in his actions, capable of knowing and loving God and to enjoy him forever, and these are perfection in us a reflection of the infinite greatness of the Lord.
56. In what condition did God created our first parents, Adam and Eve? God created Adam and Eve in a state of innocence and grace, but soon they déchurent by sin.
57. Furthermore innocence and sanctifying grace, God did it no other gifts to our first parents? addition innocence and sanctifying grace, God gave our first parents of other gifts they had to pass on to their descendants with sanctifying grace. They were "integrity", that is to say, the sense of perfect submission to reason, "Immortality," "immunity" for any pain and misery, and "science" proportionate to their state.
58. What was the sin of Adam? Adam's sin was a sin of pride and serious disobedience.
59. What was the punishment of the sin of Adam and Eve? Adam and Eve lost the grace of God and they had the right to heaven, they were expelled from Paradise, subject to many miseries of soul and body, and condemned to die.
60. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, would they have been free from death? If Adam and Eve had not sinned and they had remained faithful to God, after a stay happy and peaceful on this earth without dying they were transported by God in heaven for you to enjoy eternal life and glorious.
61. These donations were they due to man? These gifts were manmade in any way, but they were absolutely free and supernatural. So when Adam had disobeyed the divine command, God could without injustice to deprive him of these gifts and his posterity.
62. This sin is it clean only to Adam? This sin is not only Adam's sin, it is also ours, albeit differently. It is proper to Adam, because he who commits an act of his will and there he was for his personal sin. It is our own, because Adam had sinned and strain as head of the entire human race, his sin is transmitted by natural generation to all his descendants, and thus it is our original sin.
63. How is it possible that the original sin going on in all men? Original sin going on in all men because God has given to mankind in Adam, sanctifying grace and other supernatural gifts, if not Adam disobeyed no, it disobeys as a leader and father of mankind and made the human nature rebels against God. Also, human nature is it transmitted to all descendants of Adam in a state of rebellion against God and deprived of divine grace and other gifts.
64. What are the penalties that we had caused the original sin? Sentences caused by original sin are deprived of grace, the loss of paradise, ignorance, inclination to evil, all the miseries of this life and, finally, death.
65. All men assume they original sin? Yes, all men contract original sin, except the Blessed Virgin which was preserved by a special privilege of God, in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ our Savior.
66. After Adam's sin, men would not they have saved himself? After Adam's sin, men could not save himself, if God was not merciful to them.
67. God how he was merciful to mankind? God was merciful to mankind by promising immediately to Adam the divine Redeemer or Messiah, and sending the Messiah at the appointed time, to deliver men from the slavery of sin and the devil.
68. What is the promised Messiah? the promised Messiah is Jesus Christ, as taught in the second article of the Creed.
69. Teaches us that the second article, "and in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord"? The second article of the Creed teaches us that the Son of God is the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, that God is eternal, omnipotent, creator and lord, as the Father, that he became man to save us and that the Son of God made man called Jesus Christ.
70. Why the second one she called "the Son"? The second one is called "the Son" from eternity because it is generated by the Father of intelligence: that is why it is called, the eternal Word of the Father.
71. We, too, the son of God, so why do we call Jesus Christ "only Son of God the Father"? We call Jesus Christ "only Son of God the Father" because he alone is the Son of God by nature, as we are by creation and adoption.
72. Why do we call Jesus Christ "our Lord"? We call Jesus Christ "our Lord", not only because as God He created us, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but he redeemed us as God and man.
73. Why the Son of God made man he called "Jesus"? The Son of God made man is called "Jesus", which means Savior, because he saved us from eternal death deserved by our sins.
74. Who gave the name "Jesus" the Son of God made man? is the Eternal Father himself who gave the Son of God made man the name "Jesus" through the Archangel Gabriel, when he announced to the Virgin the mystery of the Incarnation .
75. Why the Son of God made man is also called "Christ"? The Son of God made man is also called "Christ", which means "anointed and sacred," because once they anointed kings, priests and prophets, Jesus is the King of kings, and the first High Priest of the Prophets.
76. Jesus Christ was he anointed and sacred anointing a body? The anointing of Jesus Christ was not like the body of former kings, priests and prophets, but wholly spiritual and divine, the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him substantially.
77. The men had they any knowledge of Jesus Christ before his coming? Yes, the men had knowledge of Jesus Christ before his coming, by the promise of the Messiah that God gave our first parents Adam and Eve, and he repeated the holy patriarchs, and by prophecies and the many figures who marked him.
78. How do we know that Jesus Christ is truly the Messiah and the Redeemer promised? We know that Jesus Christ is truly the Messiah and the promised Redeemer, because He has done everything heralded by the prophets and all that represented the figures of the Old Testament.
79. Heralded the prophecies concerning the Redeemer? About Redeemer prophecies announced the tribe and the family when he was out, the time and place of his birth, his miracles and smaller circumstances of his passion and death, resurrection and ascension to heaven, his spiritual kingdom, universal and perpetual, which is the Holy Catholic Church.
80. What are the main figures of the Redeemer in the Old Testament? The main figures of the Redeemer in the Old Testament are the innocent Abel, the high priest Melchizedek, the sacrifice of Isaac, Joseph sold by his brothers, the prophet Jonah, the paschal lamb and the brazen serpent high by Moses in the desert.
81. How do we know that Jesus Christ is truly God? We know that Jesus Christ is truly God: • by the testimony of the Father saying: "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased: hear him"; • the attestation of Jesus Christ himself confirmed by the most amazing miracles • by the apostles; • by the constant tradition of the Catholic Church.
82. What are the major miracles of Jesus Christ? The main miracles of Jesus Christ are, in addition to his own resurrection, health made the sick, sight to the blind, hearing the deaf, the dead to life.
83. Teaches us that the third article, "which was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary? The third article of the Creed teaches us that the Son of God took a body and a soul like ours, in the pure womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, through the operation of the Holy Spirit, and it is born of the Virgin.
84. The Father and the Son, they also concurred in forming the body and create the soul of Jesus Christ? Yes, the three divine Persons combined to form the body and create the soul of Jesus Christ.
85. Why do we only "was conceived by the Holy Spirit"? It just says "was conceived by the Holy Spirit, because the incarnation of the Son of God is a work of mercy and love, and that the works of kindness and love are attributed to the Holy Spirit .
86. The Son of God became man he ceased to be God? No, the Son of God became man without ceasing to be God.
87. Jesus Christ is God and man together? Yes, the Son of God incarnate, that is to say Jesus Christ is God and man all together, perfect God and perfect man.
88. So there is in Jesus Christ two natures? Yes, Jesus Christ, God and man, there are two natures: the divine nature and human nature.
89. Is there also in Jesus Christ two persons: one divine and the human person? No, in the Son of God made man, there is only one person, the divine person.
90. How many are there of wills in Jesus Christ? In Jesus Christ there are two wills, one divine and the other human.
91. Jesus Christ he had a free will? Yes, Jesus Christ had a free will, but he could not do wrong, because to do evil is a defect, not a perfection of freedom.
92. The Son of God and Son of Mary are they the same person? The Son of God and Son of Mary are the same person, that is to say Jesus Christ, true God and true man.
93. The Virgin Mary is the Mother of God? Yes, the Virgin Mary Mother of God, because she is the Mother of Jesus Christ who is God.
94. How she became Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ? Mary became the Mother of Jesus Christ only by the operation and the power of the Holy Spirit.
95. Is it of faith that Mary was ever virgin? Yes, it is of faith that Mary was ever virgin and is called the Holy Virgin, the Virgin par excellence.
96. Teaches us that the fourth article: "He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried? The fourth article of the Creed teaches us that Jesus Christ for redeem the world through his precious blood, suffered under Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea, and died on the wood of the Cross where he was taken down to be buried.
97. What do the words "suffered"? The words "suffered" all express the pain suffered by Jesus Christ in his passion.
98. Jesus Christ as he suffered as God or man? Jesus Christ suffered as man only, because as God he could neither suffer nor die.
99. What kind of punishment was that of the cross? The crucifixion was then the cruelest and most shameful of all punishments.
100. Who is it who condemned Jesus Christ to be crucified? He who condemned Jesus Christ to be crucified was Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea, who recognized her innocence, but shamefully yielded to the insistence of threatening people of Jerusalem.
101. Jesus Christ could not he found deliverance from the hands of the Jews and Pilate? Yes, Jesus Christ could free himself from the hands of the Jews and Pilate, but knowing that the will of His Father Lord was he suffered and died for our salvation, it submitted voluntarily, and he even went himself to meet his enemies and let himself be taken spontaneously and lead to death.
102. Where Jesus Christ was crucified? Jesus Christ was crucified on Mount Calvary.
103. What did Jesus Christ on the Cross? Jesus Christ on the cross prayed for his enemies gave to mother, the disciple John and - in person - all of us, his own mother the Blessed Virgin gave her death as a sacrifice, and satisfied the justice of God for the sins of men.
104. Would it not suffiqu'un angel came meet us? No, he would not suffiqu'un angel came to meet us, because the offense against God by sin was, to a certain point of view, infinite, and it was necessary to repair a person of infinite merit.
105. To satisfy the divine justice was it necessary that Jesus Christ was God and man together? Yes, it was necessary that Jesus Christ was a man in order to suffer and die, and he must be God that his suffering would have infinite value.
106. Why was it necessary that the merits of Jesus Christ were of infinite value? It was necessary that the merits of Jesus Christ were of infinite value, because the majesty of God, offended by sin, is infinite.
107. Was it necessary for Jesus SOUFF should laugh so much? No, it was not absolutely necessary for Jesus to suffer much, because the least of his suffering would have been sufficient for our redemption, all his actions with an infinite value.
108. Why is it so Jesus would SOUFF RIR? Jesus would suffer so much more extensively to meet the divine justice, to show us yet again his love for us and inspire greater horror of sin.
109. Arriva does wonders for Jesus' death? Yes, the death of Jesus, the sun was darkened, the earth shook, the graves were opened and thousands of dead revived.
110. Where was buried the body of Jesus? Jesus' body was buried in a tomb again, dug into the rock not far from where he was crucified.
111. In the death of Jesus Christ, the divinity separates Does his body and soul? In the death of Jesus Christ's divinity did not separate the body or the soul, there was only separation of soul and body.
112. For whom Christ died? Jesus Christ died for the salvation of all men and it has met for all.
113. If Jesus Christ died for the salvation of all, why are they all not saved? Jesus Christ died for the salvation of all and not all are saved because everyone does not want to acknowledge, fail to comply with all its laws, do not use all the means of sanctification he has left us .
114. To be saved, is it enough that Jesus Christ died for us? To be saved, it is not enough that Jesus Christ died for us, it is necessary that each of us are applied the result and merits of his passion and death, an application that is mainly by the sacraments that Jesus Christ himself instituted for this purpose. And as much or do not receive the sacraments or get hurt, they render them useless for the death of Jesus Christ.
