Does God punish for remarriage?

[J-cath]

I’m a Catholic and I received an annulment from the Catholic Church that states I can remarry. I’ve engaged and I’m preparing for my wedding that will take place in several months from now. Last night out of the blue I was reading various passages from the bible and it basically says no man could break the union of marriage. If that is the case then how could the Catholic Church grant me permission to remarry? I know what an annulment means, but in logical terms how can they grant if the bible says no man can break it?

Now I’m so in love, ready to move forward with my life. Will I be punished if I remarry?

 

[Karin]

You never had a Sacramental marraige, hence your Decree of Nullity.

According to Church teaching, every valid marriage between baptized persons is a sacrament and thus permanently binding and cannot be dissolved in God’s plan. In this understanding of marriage there is more than a personal commitment, a legal contract or a social arrangement; there is a partnership of the whole of life under God. “So then what God has joined, man must not separate” (Mark 10:9). Although every marriage is not a sacrament, the very fabric of society demands that every marriage be presumed valid.
*It is a sad reality that marriages do break down. When the facts show that a specific marriage is not valid and/or not a sacrament the basis may exist for a decree of nullity.
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[cameron_lansing]

Last night out of the blue I was reading various passages from the bible and it basically says no man could break the union of marriage. If that is the case then how could the Catholic Church grant me permission to remarry? I know what an annulment means, but in logical terms how can they grant if the bible says no man can break it?

J-cath,

We have to understand the words of scripture in text and context and according to the mind of the Church (see for example, Vatican II, Constitution on Divine Revelation, Chapter III, especially around n. 12). In issuing a decree of nullity and determining the validity of marriage, the Church draws upon the authority given to her by Christ himself.

In speaking of the prohibition of divine law against remarriage following a marriage, Jesus is speaking of situations in which that first marriage was a valid one (see for example, Mt 5:32 and 19:9 , Mk 10:11, Lk 16:18).

Certainly, those whom God has joined together, humans cannot separate.

A decree of nullity means that although there was a ceremony, no valid marriage ever existed in the first place. In other words, God had not joined the couple together.

You are free to enter marriage with the assurance that the Church founded by Christ and acting in his name has declared so. In fact, the sentences in nullity cases begin with these words, “In the name of God.”

 

[Digitonomy]

An obvious situation which is treated in the same way is if you were to marry two or three husbands at the same time. You may have the documents, and kids to prove that the second and third marriages were real, but if in fact you were already married when those weddings took place, they are simply invalid, and a declaration of nullity can be issued about them. Similarly, if you were drugged and forced through the marriage ceremony, the marriage would be invalid, and could be anulled. Your situation is slightly less extreme, but the Church has decided that it too falls into this category.

 

[J-cath]

That really helps! Thank you so much for your help

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

I’m a Catholic and I received an annulment from the Catholic Church that states I can remarry. I’ve engaged and I’m preparing for my wedding that will take place in several months from now. Last night out of the blue I was reading various passages from the bible and it basically says no man could break the union of marriage. If that is the case then how could the Catholic Church grant me permission to remarry? I know what an annulment means, but in logical terms how can they grant if the bible says no man can break it?

Now I’m so in love, ready to move forward with my life. Will I be punished if I remarry?

How can you break a Marriage bond that never existed? The Marriage Bond would have had to first be valid. unles you feel that the annulment was obtained through deception.

 

[palmas85]

I’m a Catholic and I received an annulment from the Catholic Church that states I can remarry. I’ve engaged and I’m preparing for my wedding that will take place in several months from now. Last night out of the blue I was reading various passages from the bible and it basically says no man could break the union of marriage. If that is the case then how could the Catholic Church grant me permission to remarry? I know what an annulment means, but in logical terms how can they grant if the bible says no man can break it?

Now I’m so in love, ready to move forward with my life. Will I be punished if I remarry?

Looks to me like you don’t understand what an annulment really is. That would have been explained to you as you went through the process. Also you would have had to submit a lot of documentation during the process. Someone who has gone through the process knows what is going on and what has happened. The entire thing is fully explained and while cumbersome is really pretty simple in what it does.

The process was explained to you was it not? Or is this as I suspect from the wording alone another bogus post designed for controversy.:tsktsk:

 

[bluerose]

My husband’s first “marriage” was annulled twenty years ago and up until recently, he also suffered from scruples in the matter of whether he did the right thing or not in remarrying.

He’s very sensitive and wants to do only what’s pleasing to God but he still feels ashamed that he didn’t “keep” the promise he made. His “ex” was the one who left him, filed for divorce and started the annullment proceedings. I read his paperwork after we were married and I know that he would still be married to her today if she hadn’t been so intent on leaving him (after only three months of marriage!) Every time the Scripture was read at Mass about Jesus condemning divorce, he would get upset. Finally he had a good long talk with a good priest, who explained to him just what an annullment is–the marriage was never valid in the eyes of the Church. In fact, the priest explained, an invalid marriage is an affront to God, whether it’s because a Catholic married in an invalid ceremony or they lacked “due discretion” at the time of the wedding.

Of course, all this was explained at the time, but when you’re going through an emotionally trying time, you don’t really “get” it. It’s something that affected his whole family and my husband felt he had “failed” and let them down.

Needless to say, I wouldn’t have married him if he wasn’t free to marry in the Church, and his attitude (while trying at times) also assured me that he did take the vocation of marriage very seriously and was in it for the long haul. Eighteen years later, we’re both thankful to God!