Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Qui autem de summo bono dissentit de tota philosophiae ratione dissentit. An eum discere ea mavis, quae cum plane perdidiceriti nihil sciat? Tum Piso: Quoniam igitur aliquid omnes, quid Lucius noster? Ut optime, secundum naturam affectum esse possit. Dic in quovis conventu te omnia facere, ne doleas. Nec vero sum nescius esse utilitatem in historia, non modo voluptatem. Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Sed mehercule pergrata mihi oratio tua. Naturales divitias dixit parabiles esse, quod parvo esset natura contenta. Atque haec coniunctio confusioque virtutum tamen a philosophis ratione quadam distinguitur.

Tu vero, inquam, ducas licet, si sequetur; Verba tu fingas et ea dicas, quae non sentias?

Laelius clamores sofòw ille so lebat Edere compellans gumias ex ordine nostros. Roges enim Aristonem, bonane ei videantur haec: vacuitas doloris, divitiae, valitudo; Nam his libris eum malo quam reliquo ornatu villae delectari. Utram tandem linguam nescio? Tu vero, inquam, ducas licet, si sequetur; Ne amores quidem sanctos a sapiente alienos esse arbitrantur. Quorum sine causa fieri nihil putandum est.

Primum in nostrane potestate est, quid meminerimus? Deinde disputat, quod cuiusque generis animantium statui deceat extremum. Non enim, si omnia non sequebatur, idcirco non erat ortus illinc.

Sed quid sentiat, non videtis. Satis est tibi in te, satis in legibus, satis in mediocribus amicitiis praesidii. Dici enim nihil potest verius. Non quam nostram quidem, inquit Pomponius iocans; Etenim semper illud extra est, quod arte comprehenditur. Facit igitur Lucius noster prudenter, qui audire de summo bono potissimum velit; Bonum patria: miserum exilium. Si qua in iis corrigere voluit, deteriora fecit. Nunc haec primum fortasse audientis servire debemus.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Qui autem de summo bono dissentit de tota philosophiae ratione dissentit. An eum discere ea mavis, quae cum plane perdidiceriti nihil sciat? Tum Piso: Quoniam igitur aliquid omnes, quid Lucius noster? Ut optime, secundum naturam affectum esse possit. Dic in quovis conventu te omnia facere, ne doleas. Nec vero sum nescius esse utilitatem in historia, non modo voluptatem. Duo Reges: constructio interrete. Sed mehercule pergrata mihi oratio tua. Naturales divitias dixit parabiles esse, quod parvo esset natura contenta. Atque haec coniunctio confusioque virtutum tamen a philosophis ratione quadam distinguitur.

Tu vero, inquam, ducas licet, si sequetur; Verba tu fingas et ea dicas, quae non sentias?

Laelius clamores sofòw ille so lebat Edere compellans gumias ex ordine nostros. Roges enim Aristonem, bonane ei videantur haec: vacuitas doloris, divitiae, valitudo; Nam his libris eum malo quam reliquo ornatu villae delectari. Utram tandem linguam nescio? Tu vero, inquam, ducas licet, si sequetur; Ne amores quidem sanctos a sapiente alienos esse arbitrantur. Quorum sine causa fieri nihil putandum est.

Primum in nostrane potestate est, quid meminerimus? Deinde disputat, quod cuiusque generis animantium statui deceat extremum. Non enim, si omnia non sequebatur, idcirco non erat ortus illinc.

Sed quid sentiat, non videtis. Satis est tibi in te, satis in legibus, satis in mediocribus amicitiis praesidii. Dici enim nihil potest verius. Non quam nostram quidem, inquit Pomponius iocans; Etenim semper illud extra est, quod arte comprehenditur. Facit igitur Lucius noster prudenter, qui audire de summo bono potissimum velit; Bonum patria: miserum exilium. Si qua in iis corrigere voluit, deteriora fecit. Nunc haec primum fortasse audientis servire debemus.

(via Agence France-Presse) Marriage is losing its luster for many in the Philippines, with an increasing number of couples starting families out of wedlock, the government census office said on Friday.

More than 37 percent of the 1.78 million babies born in Asia’s Roman Catholic outpost in 2008 had unmarried mothers, it said in a statement, citing results of the latest population census.

This was 12.5 percent higher than the previous year, and compared with a 2.0 percent increase for all births, the census office said.

A growing number of Filipinos now treat marriage as an option, rather than a requirement, for starting families, said Nene Baligad, a member of a unit of the National Statistics Office that licenses people who officiate weddings.

“Nowadays, some couples just live in and only get married after having four or five children,” she told AFP.

“You can’t really say it’s for practical reasons, since you can be married on the cheap. It’s more like, we Filipinos tend to follow what is in fashion.”

Eight out of 10 Filipinos are Catholic, and the Philippines is one of only three territories in the world, along with Malta and the Vatican, where divorce remains illegal.

However the census showed that many couples were defying the nation’s powerful Catholic bishops by not only on having babies out of wedlock, but also by shunning church weddings.

Marriages either solemnized by the church or by government officials fell 0.7 percent to 486,514 in 2008, according to the census.

Just over a third of couples were married in Catholic ceremonies, while four in 10 chose civil rites officiated by a person licensed by the census office.

Manila couple Alvin Ruiz, 24, and his girlfriend, Joann Lopez, told AFP as they visited the Manila Zoo that they started living in together four years ago and now had a three-year-old son.

“Instead of spending for a wedding, we used the money to buy infant milk,” said Ruiz, who earns a living by buying used cooking oil from restaurants then selling them to companies that turn them into fuel for motor vehicles. [source]

(via CBCPnews.com) Pope Benedict XVI called on the Filipino bishops to strengthen the sacrament of matrimony especially among the young couples today.

As the Filipino culture is confronted with “secularism,” he said care must be given to showing young people the importance of the sacraments “as instrument of God’s grace and assistance.”

“This is particularly true of the sacrament of matrimony, which sanctifies married life from its beginning, so that God’s presence may sustain young couples in their struggles,” Benedict XVI said.

The pontiff made the statement during the “ad limina” visit of Bicol and Visayas bishops in Rome on February 18. It also came amid the declining Catholic marriages in the country.

An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines earlier said that the number of church marriages dropped from 177,940 in 2008-2009 to just 166, 000 in 2010.

Fr. Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the CBCP’s Commission on Family and Life, said this was because Filipinos were marrying at a later age.

He said couples were also opting for civil marriages first before going for a “grand” church wedding.

Another church official of the CBCP’s National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal also admitted before that the high cost of church weddings is deterring couples from getting married.

According to retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz, churches must encourage couples to have simple wedding rites instead or offer the sacrament for free.  For his part, retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the CBCP’s National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal also admitted the high costs involved in holding church weddings is deterring couples from getting married.

Cruz said churches must encourage couples to have simple wedding rites instead or offer the sacrament for free.