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st_julie
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My daughter is a young widow and mother of 2 children. She has been widowed for 2 years and it has been a very difficult time for all of them emotionally. Her husband was Protestant but both supportive and challenging to her faith. Her father and I are divorced and he has remarried without an annulment. She knows that was against church teaching.
She met a divorced Protestant man,( a loving, gentle and godly man) and will marry him this summer. They are not waiting to hear if the annulment is granted but it has been submited and they have been before the tribunal.
My children were not well formed as children in their Catholic faith. Only as adults have they educated themselves. She knows she will place herself in a state of excommunication and has promised to be honest about the Eucharist.
To quote the EWTN apologists “Here’s the thing”. I have agreed to go to the service. I go knowing it is an act of disobebience and I have withdrawn from partaking while I am in this state. I understand her desire for the safety of being part of a couple again. Her situation was an uneviable one. I also believe she would use my failure to attend in an angry way for she has started to project so that she can justify her comprimise. Most important of all though, I am going because I love her with an unconditional love, she is my daughter and I have always been there for her in spite of the decisions she makes.
Has anyone been in this situation and can share with me?
Thank You
A Mom
My daughter is a young widow and mother of 2 children. She has been widowed for 2 years and it has been a very difficult time for all of them emotionally. Her husband was Protestant but both supportive and challenging to her faith. Her father and I are divorced and he has remarried without an annulment. She knows that was against church teaching.
She met a divorced Protestant man,( a loving, gentle and godly man) and will marry him this summer. They are not waiting to hear if the annulment is granted but it has been submited and they have been before the tribunal.
My children were not well formed as children in their Catholic faith. Only as adults have they educated themselves. She knows she will place herself in a state of excommunication and has promised to be honest about the Eucharist.
To quote the EWTN apologists “Here’s the thing”. I have agreed to go to the service. I go knowing it is an act of disobebience and I have withdrawn from partaking while I am in this state. I understand her desire for the safety of being part of a couple again. Her situation was an uneviable one. I also believe she would use my failure to attend in an angry way for she has started to project so that she can justify her comprimise. Most important of all though, I am going because I love her with an unconditional love, she is my daughter and I have always been there for her in spite of the decisions she makes.
Has anyone been in this situation and can share with me?
Thank You
A Mom
