Sunday, April 9, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 270 - Part I.
(Youcat
answer) She accepts them lovingly, following Jesus’ example. Anyone who
divorces after being married in the Church and then during the lifetime of the
spouse enters into a new union obviously contradicts Jesus’ clear demand for
the indissolubility of marriage. The Church cannot abolish this demand. This
retraction of fidelity is contrary to the Eucharist, in which it is precisely the
irrevocable character of God’s love that the Church celebrates. That is why
someone who lives in such a contradictory situation is not admitted to Holy Communion.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1665) The
remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the
plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the
Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion. They will lead Christian
lives especially by educating their children in the faith.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Far from treating all specific cases alike,
Pope Benedict XVI speaks about “painful situations” and calls on pastors “to
discern different situations carefully, in order to be able to offer
appropriate spiritual guidance to the faithful involved” (Apostolic Exhortation
Sacramentum caritatis, 29)
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 2384) Divorce is a grave offense against the
natural law. It claims to break the contract, to which the spouses freely
consented, to live with each other till death. Divorce does injury to the
covenant of salvation, of which sacramental marriage is the sign. Contracting a
new union, even if it is recognized by civil law, adds to the gravity of the
rupture: the remarried spouse is then in a situation of public and permanent
adultery: If a husband, separated from his wife, approaches another woman, he
is an adulterer because he makes that woman commit adultery, and the woman who
lives with him is an adulteress, because she has drawn another's husband to
herself (St. Basil, Moralia 73, 1: PG
31, 849-852).
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