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Hi Elaine,
I am glad to hear you want to make things right. God is obviously working
in your life. If I understand you correctly, what you need to do is:
- stop
being sexually intimate, preferably live separately
until the wedding
(If you just can't move out entirely, moving to a different room would
still be an improvement.)
- go to Confession
- get engaged, and
- then talk to a priest
about getting married.
You will need a dispensation to marry a non-Catholic but he will handle
that if you inform him of the situation. If either of you have been divorced
from people who are still alive, the divorced person will have to apply
for an annulment, which could take a year or more and may not be granted.
To get married you'll need to promise to raise the kids Catholic and he'll
need to promise not to interfere. You'll also have to promise to be open
to children which I suspect you are. Once you go to Confession you can
receive Communion again.
- Does that answer your question?
By the way, both of you are (or at least should acknowledge
yourselves as) Christians. Anyone who is baptized in the name of
the Trinity (as
you are) and strives to follow Christ is a Christian.
You are a Catholic Christian;
he is a non-Catholic Christian.
Eric
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