Posted on 11/04/2014 10:45:38 AM PST by sitetest
The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found out that as a divorced and remarried woman I could not receive Communion. Tears of sorrow and joy flowed. Sorrow because I had by then grasped the truth of transubstantiation, only to find I couldn’t consume, and joy because at last we found the ground of real authority—his Church, the one he founded, the one tasked to keep all he taught her Apostles.
I came to Catholicism from Calvinism. That’s a tough row to hoe if there ever was one. It was that prescient and beautiful encyclical Humanae Vitae which softened my heart to the Catholic Church. After that, I couldn’t get enough. I wanted to hear what the Church believed in her own words. And so I kept reading—Theology of the Body, Familiaris Consortio, Mulieris Dignitatem, and Church documents significant to those of us coming from the Reformed tradition.
Because I had been divorced, and because another family member recently left his marriage after forty-three years, our children had many doubts and questions about marriage. One day around the dinner table one of the kids voiced their anxiety, stating in our presence that “you never know” if both mom and dad will be there for you as you grow up.
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I like your answer.
We, in this life, like to bend God’s rule to our advantage.
We think of Jesus as that kind and forgiving Person who ate with people, forgave people, healed people, raised them from the dead and who never had an unkind word for anyone.
But, He was the toughest Hombre ever. He knew beforehand what kind of death He would suffer and, although He could have easily avoided it, He underwent His fate because He was well aware that it was for the salvation of mankind.
If we are to be like Him, we have to become as tough as He was, as all the martyrs understood throughout the ages and still do today. Christianity is not for the weak of heart.
My greatest fear has always been that I would not measure up to His expectations in time of persecution. I can only pray that I will not fail.
Well, there could be a problem with that, depending on the circumstances (that we don't know, and aren't any of our business). But there's no problem with her abstaining from Communion for now.
Yes. We can fool ourselves fairly easily. We're blessed to have a living Magisterium to help us follow the narrow road.
And yes, Jesus was tough. And loving. Even when he drove the money-changers out of the Temple.
sure He is...and of course you don't have to go anywhere to encounter Him spiritually, but to receive Him physically, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, under the appearance of bread and wine, you do, indeed, need to go to Mass at your local Catholic church and you were taught that....
Thanks for the ping.
When one takes a wedding vow to “... love and honor ... for better or worse ... until death do us part”, is that an actual vow or is it just a set of lines one reads, like the elementary-school Thanksgiving Pageant, for ornamental purposes only?
You’re welcome.
That's pretty logical...As long as you repent you are allowed to partake in the Eucharist...
If the article makes a simple statement of historical fact that raises no issue the non members would have an interest in disputing, then the caucus label may be used.
I can not disagree with your Church's doctrine...Hey, it's your church...But Jesus gave no such command to His church...Why does your religion make a liar out of God???
Mat 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
If a divorce is the result of fornication, the one who did not commit the fornication is allowed to re-marry and have a healthy sex life...
And these people are under the law...Sabbath worshiping, pork abstaining Jews under the law...
That is not biblical so it is ignorance in action...
What if the stated reason for the divorce is just the standard "irreconcilable differences"?
Spiritual communion without the Eucharist...Now that's a new one...Being in the real presence without the Eucharist...Without the Mass...That ought to wake up a few Catholics...
And that as close to 'home' as most of them will ever get...
I'll take that as an honest acknowledgment that your religion is in error...But to answer your question, you go to Paul's epistles which are the books given to Paul by Jesus to present to His church...
1Co 7:27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Are you divorced, seek not a new wife...
1Co 7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
If you marry a new wife, you have not sinned...
Not hardly.
Not hardly.
Well it should...Your religious doctrine contradicts the bible on marriage and divorce...
Should we be surprised?
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