To: MacMattico
Especially if you go through spiritual counseling you should still be allowed Communion.
and resolve to sin no more, i.e. refrain from adulterous affairs.
To pretend that a valid marriage no longer exists so that the parties can "get on with their lives" is a false charity. Imposed celibacy is indeed a hardship but is this not one of those times when we need to listen to our Lord and "take up our cross and follow him"? As Christians we need to have the faith to live the gospel.
To: Petrosius
The fact that we can hope and pray that a serial killer “found Jesus” on his death bed and then can therefore be saved but we want to condemn the divorced and remarried, even if divorced through no fault of their own, when they seek forgiveness and spiritual guidance makes no sense in any Christian denomination.
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