Saturday, November 22, 2014
Divorced And Remarried
I am going to take a guess at this one. Why are some people so upset about the thought of giving communion to people who get remarried after a divorce? The cover is that it goes against church teaching or will change dogma which would be pretty serious, except that it is not a dogma. It is rule, a punishment for getting divorced and remarried without an annulment. It is not in the Creed. One could uphold marriage being indissoluble and yet permit remarried to go to communion. Don't use Eucharist as a reward/punishment. The fact that you cannot get the remarriage, or attempted marriage, as some would say, to be blessed in the church could be the punishment. But back to my original issue. Why such anger about these remarried people? A guess, is that these angry people are staying in miserable marriages and resent others from getting out and trying to marry someone else. Why don't people get just as angry about rich/poor, or ecology or the fact that we are running out of water to drink? What do you think? I don't mind being wrong. I get angry about stuff, but then have to ask myself why one thing and not another.
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when I was going to get married in the church, the priest wanted us to fill out a computerized questionaire. I resented it. So we got married by a used to be a priest . Well, the whole dogma put into some process was disappointing. Maybe some people just don't fit the model . Hope God still has some mercy left for some of us.
ReplyDeleteMany long marriages end. Do the rule makers know how insulting and demeaning it is to annul a 20 year plus relationship that has grown children---it never counted!!! People jump thru' hoops and actually lie to get an annulment ---who are they lying to---God???? Another reason the flock is decimated.
ReplyDelete"Do not use Eucharist for reward/punishment" is so fundamentally correct. I have had "eucharistic experiences" while kneeling at church. I speak of profound moments that were deeply moving kind of life changers. Then recently read an article in Commonweal regarding this too. Why deny the Eucharistic experience to any sinner? Divorcees need The Eucharistic!!
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