Pamela Wooden
wrote:
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Hi, guys —
My first marriage was annulled by the Church
when I was 20 years old. I remarried 10
years later in the Methodist church. My husband
and I have now been married 28 years but we have
only attended my Catholic parish,
occasionally, when I returned to the Church
and went to Confession.
- What can we do to have our marriage blessed?
Sincerely,
Pamela W.
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{
With
my simple Methodist marital background, what do we have
to do to get our marriage blessed? }
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Paul
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Pamela,
Assuming you are Catholic, if your
union in the Methodist church was
without a dispensation from the Catholic
Church and without the official Catholic
witness of a priest or deacon present,
it is considered invalid.
Go immediately to your pastor to
see if you can have it convalidated.
It's more than just a blessing, it's
a validation. In the meantime, it
would be proper to live as brother
and sister until this occurs.
Paul
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Eric
replied:
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Hi, Pamela —
Ask your parish priest, he will take
care of it.
Eric
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Pamela
replied:
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