ELVIS BLOG

On 2nd Sept 1995, I said “I DO!” 19yrs down the line, what have I learnt? What do I wish I knew before saying I DO? Below are some 19 lessons: (very long post) 1. Love is a choice, not an emotion: As more years pass, you realize that each day you have to consciously choose to love. You cannot rely on the “emotional” feelings you had the first month you met. 2. Love is a commitment: You must resolve to love regardless. Marriage is not for those who want to try if it will work or not. It is for those who resolve to make it work no matter the challenges. 3. Leave your parents: Many marriages fail because one or both partners fails to cut the umbilical cord to his/her parents. Don’t keep going back to mama to cry! Focus on building your marriage. 4. Develop your own set of values: None of you should impose his/her parents’ values to be fully adopted in your new family. Many of the things your parents do/did, might not work for you 100%. Create your own marriage constitution and live

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be canonized in Rome on Sunday, Sept. 4, the Vatican confirmed today. Pope Francis signed a decree this morning confirming the canonization of the Albanian-born religious at a consistory on several causes of canonization. The announcement ended the speculation that Blessed Teresa might be canonized in India. Last year, theologians and medical experts ruled that the healing in 2008 of a Brazilian man with a brain tumor was inexplicable and owed to Blessed Mother Teresa’s intercession. A miracle is usually required to have taken place since a candidate’s beatification for him or her to be declared a saint.  Mother Teresa of Calcutta, born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, (Skopje 1910-Kolkata 1997), was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 19, 2003. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.” Earlier this month, four Missionaries of Charity sisters were killed by terrorists in Yemen. Po