Evangelizing to divorced friends. Tricky for me

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This is a sticky area for me. I have friends at work that are wanting to get their families involved at a church locally. I have been talking to them about the Catholic Church and workin on getting them to visit. The problem is I don’t know how they will react to the churches teaching on divorce and all the process involved in annulment and so on. The wife has been married twice previously, and the husband married once before. i just think that once they find out all the processes they would have to undergo to become Catholic, even if initally interested would quickly vanish. i just work on them and let them decide for themselves, but anyone ever been temped not to “bother” people who may have been married previously becouse you thought they would agree to go though the annulment process. Or even because you don’t think annulment would be achieved though the church given the curcumstances of the previous persons divorce? Just Wondering:)

God bless,
Jesse
 
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This is a sticky area for me. I have friends at work that are wanting to get their families involved at a church locally. I have been talking to them about the Catholic Church and workin on getting them to visit. The problem is I don’t know how they will react to the churches teaching on divorce and all the process involved in annulment and so on. The wife has been married twice previously, and the husband married once before. i just think that once they find out all the processes they would have to undergo to become Catholic, even if initally interested would quickly vanish. i just work on them and let them decide for themselves, but anyone ever been temped not to “bother” people who may have been married previously becouse you thought they would agree to go though the annulment process. Or even because you don’t think annulment would be achieved though the church given the curcumstances of the previous persons divorce? Just Wondering:)

God bless,
Jesse
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What you are almost saying is that they are “not worth the effort”. Evangelization is NOT Conversion, it is invitation to conversion. They will have to make their own individual decisions when they learn and understand the doctrine.
Remember the Gospel of the Rich Young Man, you in a sense are acting for Christ here with these friends, they may choose that it is too hard.
 
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