Marriage is sin

[javelin]

Genuflecter:

My idea is this, but I probably shouldn’t take credit for it. I must have heard it somewhere. God created us in His own image and likeness and human relationships, including the sacrament of marriage, bring that to fruition by teaching us how to love like God. If we only loved God, our love would be unlike His in one very important way - we would only love what is perfect. By loving us God loves what is imperfect, impure, and undeserving of such love. We can never love perfectly like Him, but we are called to image His love and love impersonally - meaning without regard to what we get out of it. We should make every effort to love like God loves and that means loving the unlovable.

What a great insight! Thanks!

javelin

 

[Greg_McPherran]

1 Corinthians 7:28 If you marry, however, you do not sin, nor does an unmarried woman sin if she marries.

 

[sharonvanecek]

I was a great sinner before I got married- I had an affair with a married man , I was truly a great sinner with many mortal sins- fornication with my husband prior to marriage- living with him prior to marriage. Marriage made me Holy. Since my marriage in the Catholic Church ( sacrament of matrimony). We have taken in 3 children from the foster care system. I worked at a crisis pregnancy center. I am working in hospice caring for the dying. I go to Eucharistic adoration wkly, we all go to Mass wkly and more if possible, also monthly confession and try to pray the chaplet of divine mercy and the rosary as much as possible- at least daily. I also attend Taize prayer monthly. My children have attended Catholic schools. I have been faithful to my husband. I work 2 jobs to pay the bills and try very hard never to be bitter but to be happy. My husband is not a christian and in many ways non supportive to our family. He has retired and does not work. He drinks a lot and has little to do with the kids. We all have suffered a lot. When the suffering hits, I unite it with Jesus on the Cross and do penance for my sins both before marriage and after marriage. I never stop praying for my husband’s conversion, but it was marriage and the graces from that sacrament and the unselfishness and sacrifice that it brought into my life that I feel is making me a true follower of Jesus and holy. Also, dispite all my difficulties - I am really happy and much happier than I was before getting married.

 

[thestickman]

SojournerOf78:

And could anyone out there share your experience with how being married has helped your devotion to the Lord???

I can honestly say were it not for my happy marriage to my present wife I would never have discovered the Catholic faith–even though we are considered to be living in sin as we were both previously married.

My wife was baptized Catholic as an infant but never received intstruction or 1st Eucharist. Anyway, it was her background which led us to the Church we attend and while it’s an indirect route from my wife to the Church, I’m very thankful the Lord brought her into my life and us to the Church.

Now if we can just maintain our sanity thru the annulment process…

 

[Faustina]

AlanFromWichita:

Dear SojournerOf78,

There certainly are different people out there. If you can stomach it, read about a feminist who is celebrating the rising divorce rate theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10699917%255E2702,00.html

The first paragraph:
Greer cheers divorcing women
Amanda Banks
September 08, 2004

THE high rate of divorce should be celebrated as the major sign of progress in the feminist movement, an ever-passionate Germaine Greer said at the start of a national speaking tour.

Alan

Esperanza
That is really sad

GBU

Hope

I find more that sad. Tragic.