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salem777
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Please pray for my marriage. I have returned to the church after leaving at 17yrs of age now I am 52 this may. I was widowed with 3 children and attended a nondenominational christian church where I met and married my husband of 20yrs. We have a son together who is now 18yrs of age. My problem is this. I have unhappily found out that the church does not consider my marriage valid because my husband was married before for 5yrs. Neither one was a christian at the time and they were not married in a church. She left him for another man after having an affair. I met him at church and his ex wife was already remarried. So fast forward, my parish pastor said that my husband could annul his former marriage according to the Pauline privledge, my husband is not catholic and is less than thrilled that I am. He has prostrate cancer and subsequently has to recieve lupron shots which give him no sex drive at all, but when the medication needs to be given again the sex drive returns and my husband feels rejected. He has become furious with me over this and to be fair I do understand. He refuses to consider annulment because he is not catholic. It makes him wildly angry. I feel that I am to remain as his wife and to pray for him. I have recently realized that the Blessed Virgin Mary is also my mother and am developing a love for her that she stands with me in prayer for my husband. This has been a three and a half yr conversion on my end with reading and studying everything I could get my hands on. I began with the sickening realization that Martin Luther believed in the true presence of Jesus in the eucharist, which led to Scott Hahn and many others. I now have quite a library. My husband is not theological he is struggling in his own relationship with the Lord which has affected many areas of our lives. I am asking the impossible, I ask for your prayers with the Blessed Virgin interceeding for my Husbands full conversion to the Catholic faith. I know that God is good, his plans are for good and not evil. Please join me and pray for strength in my own walk with the Lord. To trust Him and to remember His promise that wherever two or more are gathered in His name He is there with them and if we ask according to His will it will be done for us. Thank you in advance, Salem777merryt55@gmail.com