I like this. Communion for me is one of the most holy miracles in my weekly life and I am Catholic and about ready to go through a divorce. I saddens me deeply to have to NOT take communion after the divorce. So much so I will have to leave the Catholic church or do 2 separate churches throughout the week. That is how much it means to me. I actually initially stayed in the marriage JUST so I could continue to take communion.
You only have to refrain from Communion if you remarry without an annulment. Simply going through a divorce doesn't prevent you from going to Communion.
It’s the remarriage part that bars communion, not divorce itself.
IMO the worst thing is that the Church is not consistent in their position.
They would deny you Communion while serving it to Nancy Pelosi.
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.
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.
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.
What? You can still receive Holy Communion if you are divorced, as long as you are not living in sin.
You are very confused about this issue. When you are involuntarily divorced, there is no barrier to receiving Communion.
You have no concept of what Religion is if you think that a sin is not a sin if you just find a compatible preacher. why bother with church at all? For you then it is just an interesting way to pass an hour on Sunday.