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To: NYer
Plenty of divorced and remarried folks go to communion.

Should they wear a big "A" on their forehead so the priests knows to pass them by.

Sorry....I believe the church is wrong in the matter. If you wish to go to communion, do it.

4 posted on 07/16/2014 4:39:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Sorry....I believe the church is wrong in the matter. If you wish to go to communion, do it.

...hmmm...can of worms alert...


6 posted on 07/16/2014 4:41:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Sacajaweau

Your not serious? Advising folks to make sacrilegious Communions? That advise is straight from the pit of hell.


8 posted on 07/16/2014 5:06:15 AM PDT by Cap'n Crunch
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To: Sacajaweau
Plenty of divorced and remarried folks go to communion.

And plenty of Congress critters call themselves Catholic and support infanticide, does that make it right?

Should they wear a big "A" on their forehead so the priests knows to pass them by.

Might not be a bad idea.

Sorry....I believe the church is wrong in the matter. If you wish to go to communion, do it.

I am certain that even a cursory examination of the Yellow pages will assist you in finding a church more to your liking. I hear the Anglicans and Presbyterians have made some interesting changes to their teachings lately.

10 posted on 07/16/2014 5:15:30 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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To: Sacajaweau

It depends on what communion is to you, and the risks for receiving it in a improper manner.

The issue is this.
1. If you divorce but don’t remarry, then all is OK. Civil divorce doesn’t affect your church marriage.
2. If you divorce and remarry, then you are not really remarried but living in adultery.
3. With issue #2, there are cases where the second marriage has children and family, and the first spouse has remarried also. What is the proper course now? The remarried person is living in a state of active sin, and therefore receiving communion would be to their determent (see St. Paul). But at some point, splitting up the second family would not good, or even possible. So how is that handled?

The real underlining reason is that for most of the USA and the West, “marriage” doesn’t mean anything. It is a short term arrangement. Now I know of many marriages who have failed because one spouse unilaterally split. That places the abandoned spouse in a hard place. But the risk is in removing the prohibitions on remarried persons receiving communion you put the persons souls in danger, and further cheapen the institution of marriage itself.


13 posted on 07/16/2014 5:31:52 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Sacajaweau

And commit a sacrilegious mortal sin?


18 posted on 07/16/2014 6:06:18 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Sacajaweau
Sorry....I believe the church is wrong in the matter. If you wish to go to communion, do it.

John 8:1-11 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”

57 posted on 07/16/2014 7:28:33 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:27


242 posted on 07/18/2014 9:40:00 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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