Your marriage was invalid due to lack of form. After your divorce, you were free to resume the practice of the Faith, with confession. No annulment necessary. The priest was mistaken to request you involve your “ex.”
The priest was mistaken to request you involve your “ex.”
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Think possibly he wanted meet because the children were not ‘involved’ ..... Since they were both married with kids, that ‘ship had sailed’.
In regards to the absolution, guess in that respect ‘they’ figured it never happened with the Confession ‘clearing the air’.
I will admit to probably having a ‘negative attitude’ when it came to going back BUT what with the Mass in English, Women with a very active role, Lay people distributing Communion, I sort of figured it was not the Catholic Church/Service I was raised with.
The ‘hug’ caught me way off guard and since the person standing next to me was NOT a good looking blond I almost ‘decked’ the guy when he ‘grabbed’ me for a hug - but when I looked around, I saw that I was the ‘different’ one.