Yearly Eucharist Obligation OUTSIDE the state of Grace?

[BeeSweet]

The priest didn’t ask, I didn’t tell. No mention was made by either of us about whether or not I would continue having relations with my husband. Both times, by two different priests.

 

[kleary]

BeeSweet!:

OK, that sounds fair enough. I still feel I need to speak with my priest. I doubt he’ll tell me differently since I’ll be specifically asking the question. Maybe they didn’t say anything before because they didn’t want to scare me away from returning to the faith. It didn’t even cross my mind that the JP marriage would cause a problem with the Church when we decided to elope.

I do not know what was in the priest’s mind. It is sad that you were not taught like me in CCD and Catholic School that no Catholic can contract Marriage outside the Church- and I was taught this in 1980.

Ken

 

[kleary]

BeeSweet!:

The priest didn’t ask, I didn’t tell. No mention was made by either of us about whether or not I would continue having relations with my husband. Both times, by two different priests.

And they gave you absolution… what a shame. They should have brought the question to you. You should seek another confessor.

Ken

 

[kleary]

BeeSweet!:

Were my husband to know all this though, it would cause a HUGE problem. He does not understand all of this. Well, then again I’m very confused too, but he would condemn the Church’s views.

I do not know what to say. Yet I can say that the Protestant Reformation has caused this heartache on you and your family. For if there was not Protestant Reformation America may be a Catholic country.

Ken

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

BeeSweet!:

I don’t believe I’ve intentionally not repented, but I still live with my husband although we have not had our marriage blessed in the Church. I am sorely sorry for all the sins I’ve committed, even those for which I’ve been absloved already. This is why I don’t want to compound the sin further.

You need to speak with a GOOD spiritual director. Your Marriage situation needs to be addressed. Revolving door Confession is not helping you spiritually.

 

[Kielbasi]

BeeSweet!:

My question is, since I am not in a state of Grace, what does that do for my obligation to receive the Eucharist during the Easter Season? Am I allowed? !

The Easter duty is the obligation to receive communion* worthily* during the season, not just to ‘receive the sacrament’.

If you ain’t in a state of grace, you ain’t receiving it worthily, and you aren’t meeting the obligation.

 

[rosarywarrior]

BeeSweet!:

Were my husband to know all this though, it would cause a HUGE problem. He does not understand all of this. Well, then again I’m very confused too, but he would condemn the Church’s views.

I too was in your situation and was devastated when I found I could not receive Jesus in the Eucharist. I told my husband that I was not able to receive until our marriage was blessed as the church looked upon our “civil” marriage as just living together. I continued to go to mass and prayed constantly that my husband would convert and I trusted that before I died that Jesus would see to me receiving him in the Eucharist. I did not know what would happen or when, but as in the Divine Mercy message I learned to TRUST in Jesus. Withing a year, my husband started coming to Mass with me, and entered the church Easter 1998. Our marriage was blessed after that. During the year that my husband was in RCIA, we abstained from sex and I was able to receive the Eucharist. Remember the message of Divine Mercy, “Jesus I Trust in YOU”. God Bless and never stop praying!

 

[avonlise]

just like i said to you earlier! it WILL happen, just trust in Jesus’ timing for him! :dancing: