I thought you would like to know despite my previous post My advocate then asked for a death certificate which I provided and i received a letter from the diocese to say the case had been concluded. So that as they say is that. The church tells us the present situation in a marriage has no bearing on its validity what is important is the situation when the marriage ceremony took place except it seems when one of the members has died.
Well, Iām not sure thatās completely true. For example, at the council of Trent ā¦ there was a reference to laws like degrees of Sanguinity which can be modified by the church. At the council, the church infallibly decreed that it can make a law which dissolves marriages. (Not preventing them from happening, but dissolving themā¦!)
Can. 4. If anyone says that the Church cannot
establish impediments dissolving marriage,[10] or that she has erred in establishing them, let him be anathema.
Thereās a handful of subtle points about what the church can do and canāt do (and which men can NEVER do) that Iāve never had satisfactorily explained. In my annulment petition, this was one of the questions I brought up ā¦ for I refused to have the vows āuntil death do us partā at our ceremony. Rather, we said the vows āI will love you and honor you all the days of my life.ā One of the reasons I was bothered by the ādeathā clause is as follows:
Matthew 22:30
Jesus said to them in reply, āYou are misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.
Or, Again, Elucidated in Luke:
Jesus said to them, āThe children of this age marry and are given in marriage; 35but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise.
* 37That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called āLordā the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
r 38and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.ā
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There are a few subtle points in the passage that Iām not entirely certain of, but Jesus clearly affirms that marriage is dissolved for all the spouses which died before the day of the resurrection. However, if physical death were the ONLY way for a holy marriage to be separatedā¦ then the prophecies of St. Paul and Jesus regarding the end of the world would make marriage into a sin (and a lie of the creed ā¦ for Jesus will judge the living and the dead); Consider: Marriage is not a sin; and in Heaven ā¦ we are ALL married for heaven itself is a marriage. The marriage feast of the Lamb ā¦ where we become one flesh with Jesus, the Christ, in communion (not sexual union.)
Notice what Paul says of the last day and especially about NOT dying:
usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/15:51
Behold, I tell you a mystery.
We shall not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
z 52in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
a 53For that which is corruptible must clothe itself with incorruptibility, and that which is mortal must clothe itself with immortality
I always recall (when meditating about death) that there will be no signs that one can identify for the end of the world (as opposed to the end of Jerusalem, which did have signs).
Jesus warned us: āAs to the exact day or hour, no one knows it, neither the angels in heaven nor even the Son, but only the Father. Be constantly on the watch!ā (Mk 13:32-33)."
I donāt see how to avoid the very strong implication: There will be holy marriages lasting until the very last day. This is especially true because Paul told us without reservation that he desired women to marry and bear children.
Therefore some holy marriages wonāt end in death. But if they arenāt dissolved, then the state of un-marriedness that Jesus says exists in heaven (excepting marriage to himself) canāt be fulfilled for all Christians.
I think the only resolution that makes sense ā¦ is that man does not have the right to dissolve marriages, but Jesus (as figure of God) does. For this reason, let not man separate what God has joined ā¦ but in the person of Jesus; that is a different matter. Marriage is an issue of law and subject to a judge.
this is my first time posting a question. I have been to other sights and never get an answer. So here goes. When I was 19, I married a catholic in a Catholic Church. We are now divorced. I want to get an anullment, I was reading canon law and it states that our marriage was never valid (I was an unbaptized, non Christian at the tome of marriage). Do I still need an anullment if my marriage was never valid? The reason I want an anullment is I want to join the Catholic Church.