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Almost a Vocation Within the Vocation, Says Auxiliary Bishop of Palermo
PALERMO, Sicily, JUNE 8, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A separated 62-year-old mother tries to carry out a three-step process for other Catholics who struggle after parting from their spouses.
“Reconstruction of the person who lives acutely the suffering of rejection, forgiveness of the spouse, and renewal of the marital ‘yes’ to God,” are the stages of the spiritual journey undertaken by members of a group called Saint Mary of Cana, according to its coordinator, Maria Pia Campanella.
The group is comprised of separated persons who remain faithful to the marital bond.
The diocesan Commission for Family Pastoral Care is responsible for supporting these separated faithful who are not living with someone else and who seek a spiritual program that includes faithfulness to marital indissolubility and the sacrament they once received.
Last Sunday, Campanella organized a Day of Reflection and Prayer, which concluded with a Mass and the “renewal of the yes,” reported the Italian newspaper Avvenire.
Ongoing sanctification
Pasquale Chiancone, director of the diocesan Center for Family Pastoral Care, explained: “Although a couple is separated, the indissolubility gives the faithful spouse the necessary grace to continue to fulfill the mission of marriage: one’s own sanctification and that of one’s spouse.”
It was the goal of Campanella, who over the last few years has traveled around Italy and abroad to study what the Church proposes to those who are separated and who do not intend to start living with someone else.
“I have been married since 1968 and have been separated from my husband since 1990,” said the retired teacher, who has three adult children. "Despite the great sorrow, I understood immediately that I would not try to ‘remake my life,’ as the saying goes. However, I wanted to know the meaning of my suffering. . . .
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PALERMO, Sicily, JUNE 8, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A separated 62-year-old mother tries to carry out a three-step process for other Catholics who struggle after parting from their spouses.
“Reconstruction of the person who lives acutely the suffering of rejection, forgiveness of the spouse, and renewal of the marital ‘yes’ to God,” are the stages of the spiritual journey undertaken by members of a group called Saint Mary of Cana, according to its coordinator, Maria Pia Campanella.
The group is comprised of separated persons who remain faithful to the marital bond.
The diocesan Commission for Family Pastoral Care is responsible for supporting these separated faithful who are not living with someone else and who seek a spiritual program that includes faithfulness to marital indissolubility and the sacrament they once received.
Last Sunday, Campanella organized a Day of Reflection and Prayer, which concluded with a Mass and the “renewal of the yes,” reported the Italian newspaper Avvenire.
Ongoing sanctification
Pasquale Chiancone, director of the diocesan Center for Family Pastoral Care, explained: “Although a couple is separated, the indissolubility gives the faithful spouse the necessary grace to continue to fulfill the mission of marriage: one’s own sanctification and that of one’s spouse.”
It was the goal of Campanella, who over the last few years has traveled around Italy and abroad to study what the Church proposes to those who are separated and who do not intend to start living with someone else.
“I have been married since 1968 and have been separated from my husband since 1990,” said the retired teacher, who has three adult children. "Despite the great sorrow, I understood immediately that I would not try to ‘remake my life,’ as the saying goes. However, I wanted to know the meaning of my suffering. . . .
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