Posted on 01/13/2017 11:05:52 AM PST by ebb tide
HA! EXACTLY!!!
Oh well that’s good. I thought it was just divorce. I can deal with not remarrying. That is a no brainer. Thank you.
That’s right. If you are forced into a divorce, you can discuss it with a priest and make a confession if needed, and then you are in the same position as you were before, as long as you don’t remarry. If you want to remarry some time in the future and your ex-wife is still living, then you need to get an annulment before you can receive communion, unless you and your new wife agree to live chastely. Even then, if you slip up without previous intent, you can confess your sin. But true confession requires that you INTEND to do as promised.
Why doesn’t the Pope see that this path will render nugatory all Christian moral teaching? Doesn’t he see what’s happened to the mainstream Protestants since they abandoned Christian morality? Is that what he wants? Woe to the shepherds who will not lead us in the path of righteousness!
This is good news. VERY good news!!!! I was NOT aware of this. In fact it is the BEST news I have received in a very long time. I LOVE communion. It is one of my most valued things in life. If I could I would take communion every day.
God loves you Brother and has totally judged and condemned our sins on the body of His Son, Jesus Christ. There is, therefore, now no condemnation and God desires unbroken communion with you which is accomplished through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Exactly! Well said!
I think that if the Pope had said he was starting the process to change Canon Law to approve Communion for divorced Catholics this might have been more welcome.
But this way of blackmailing and deposing a holy and learned pope by German (EU) bankers and heretical, anti-Ratzinger bishops and cardinals has an unsavory effect of attacking the Church and its adherents, of which I am one.
...”there are complex situations where the choice of living “as brothers and sisters” becomes humanly impossible...”. REALLY? Do the bishops really believe That???! I can’t find any charitable way of asking this but wouldn’t the same “I couldn’t control my behaviour so anything I did is just fine with the Lord” attitude -— apply to any other misconduct too-,such as clerics violating choir boys maybe? IMHO, these bishops are misleading their flocks badly. As teachers of the Word, the bishops should re-read James 3:1: “Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.”
“...Communion is between a man and his God...”
True as long as a man follows the instructions of “his God” as commanded in scripture.
1 Corinthians 11:29
Luke 16:17
St. Luke 16:18
Tenth Commandment #6 (#7 Protestant version) Thou shall not commit adultery
This is a profound and terrible precedent being set against God’s scripture (in the article) and God will not allow it to stand, just my prediction.
Does Catholicism even exist anymore?
From what I can tell, the current Church is no different than the local Foursquare Church, except for the formalized Sacraments (of which anyone can partake I gather).
Thank you for this. I know there are many small and large battles between Catholicism and Protestantism. And I am Catholic so it is painful for me to watch. But what you just posted to me is an essence of Jesus’s true and fundamental message. It is the one truth that gets me on my knees each morning in humility and gratitude. Amen and I am a sister. ;D
Well, God bless you sister. Someday we’ll compare notes - if not here, then in Heaven. :)
Sorry, it's the Church which gives us Communion. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ of which Jesus is the Head.
The two are inseparable.
Again, following the instructions of “his God” as commanded in scripture is between a man and his God, not between a man and his church.
“Who is he that judges another man’s servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand” Rom 14:4.
I’ve never understood the denial of communion to people who have divorced and remarried. The Catholic Church freely hands the wafers to apostates like Nancy Pelosi and murderers and fornicaters, but if you divorce and remarry, you are effectively excommunicated.
Somehow the sin of divorce has been deemed by the Catholic hierarchy to be the functional equivalent of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Prohibiting a person from a sacrament that is deemed to be essential to salvation is the equivalent of damning that person to hell.
Talk to your priest. If you were not the cause of the divorce, you could get an annulment fairly soon. I’m not contradicting others; the priest is the first place to start.
Good luck and God bless.
This Jew agrees.
Thank you for this. I will. And I am not. And I very much appreciate your blessings and return them.
So true.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
+1
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