Remarriage after divorce

[underHiswing]

Matthew 19

1 When Jesus* finished these words,* he left Galilee and went to the district of Judea across the Jordan.
2Great crowds followed him, and he cured them there.
3 Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him,* saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
4 He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
7* d They said to him, “Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss [her]?”
8 He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9 I say to you,* whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.”

He is our bridegroom we are His bride. He will never leave us or forsakes. We are the ones who leave Him going after other gods. Now lets think on what we have done and how God is so loving to us each time we come back. We are but filthy rages. So when you find you are married to someone who is in your mind “filthy rags”, do what Jesus would do. Love them even more.

 

[gardenswithkids]

Pope Francis must have read my thread; that’s why he opened up the Synod.

I read an article today written by a Catholic who expects the Church to change her teachings at this synod. The liberal author seemed to forget that Pope Francis canonized Pope St.John Paul II and also seemed unaware that the pope responsible for Humanae Vitae will be canonized at the end of this synod. I’m actually getting a bit excited to watch how papal infallibility and the Holy Spirit work here at this synod. It’s long past time for the Church teachers to teach what the Church teaches.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

I read an article today written by a Catholic who expects the Church to change her teachings at this synod. The liberal author seemed to forget that Pope Francis canonized Pope St.John Paul II and also seemed unaware that the pope responsible for Humanae Vitae will be canonized at the end of this synod. I’m actually getting a bit excited to watch how papal infallibility and the Holy Spirit work here at this synod. It’s long past time for the Church teachers to teach what the Church teaches.

You know I have been all worked up about the media and the synod. Your post brought a nice wave of calm and logic to me today. Thank you.

 

[gardenswithkids]

equip.org/articles/biblical-grounds-for-divorce-and-remarriage/#christian-books-1

In summary, Paul teaches that Christians, even those “unequally yoked with unbelievers” (2 Cor. 6:14), should always do all they can to preserve their marriages, both for the honor of Christ and for the spiritual good of spouse and children (1 Cor. 7:14). But if the non-Christian spouse decides either to desert the marriage or to seek divorce, the Christian does not need to work to preserve the marriage. The believer is free to grant a divorce or seek a divorce on the basis of “willful desertion”; and, having been granted that divorce, is free to remarry—but only to a fellow Christian. The deserted and divorced spouse falls into the same category as a widowed person: free to remarry, but “only in the Lord,” that is, to another Christian (1 Cor. 7:39–40).

If this is your specific situation, I suggest you speak to your parish priest about something called “Pauline privilege” that applies in the situation where the marriage was not a Sacramental marriage because it involved someone who was not baptized.