Why Couples Move in Together (Before Marriage) #shorts

[thecatholiccorner]

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!

[johnnywatchman]

Look it up most people who live together before marriage and in a divorce.

[ak]

I did this, and I knew it was wrong but did it anyway. We lied to the priest about living together so we could get married. 24 years of marriage and now divorced. My advice, follow the church teaching.

[neenutomi]

Fr Brett Brannen ( To Save a Thousand of Souls)
Seek and You will Find… and Flourish The discernment of your correct God-predetermined vocation is the most important decision that you will make in your entire life. It may seem easier or less frightening to make your own plans or to decide your own vocation. But the truth is that the most peaceful place in the world for you is in the perfect will of God. To get there involves a diligent search. Jesus said, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-12). No one can force you to search for your vocation. It must be your free decision to search, to discover, and to respond. If you choose to search, I promise you that you will find your particular vocation, though it may not be easy. If you choose not to search, you are not likely to find it. I believe one of the problems in the Church today is that many people are in the wrong vocation. Many people have grown up unaware that they have a vocation, much less that they should be asking God to reveal it to them. And there are many unhappy, unfulfilled, dissatisfied people. As a general rule, people flourish in their correct vocation! Flourishing does not just mean they are happy. It means they are steadily growing in holiness, they are fulfilled, and they are becoming the person God wants them to be. Fr. Brian Bashista, vocation director of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, underscores that vocation is less about personal choice and more about discovery. A vocation is not so much a choice as it is an invitation and response. A person offers himself or herself to the other. Vocations are always ‘other-directed.’ They are about love. Love is not so much chosen; it is discovered and then responded to. Even in marriage, a man does not really choose his wife or vice versa. He extends an invitation to her to enter into this vocation and she responds. Every vocation takes two yeses. As you seek to say yes to God and to discover the vocation in which God wants you to flourish, I recommend this prayer to you. Say it every day, more than once. Dear God, I want to want what you want. Even if I don’t want it right now; Even if I am afraid right now, I want to want it. Help me to want to be what you want me to be. Amen.