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No one will talk to me about what I need to do	Theresa	Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Question: Dear Bro. Ignatious I wrote on this forum some weeks ago praying for an answer and received none. Perhaps I submitted incorrectly. My issues had to do with being brainwashed, held in an occult environment and a later happy marriage I made outside the church and could not annull. I have been through the archives on this forum and the occult forum and have found pieces of answers but some of them seem to contradict and some confuse. My Parish Priest is elderly and will not talk to me about my issues. He dismisses me and acts as if I am gone. The priest in the next Parish tells me I need to talk to the priest in my own Parish. Where do I go from here? The husband who involved me in the occult is dead by violence. The husband whom I married outside my faith is dead by illness. Can I make a true confession and be restored to the sacraments? Has my church truly abandoned me? Theresa
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM+ Dear Theresa: Sorry about the glitch on your previous post. Sometimes things just get lost in cyberspace. I presume your previous post was one of them. The Church has NOT abandoned you. The Church never abandons anyone. I am not sure why you have had such a hard time with getting a priest answer your question since the answer is easy and straightforward. Regardless of the circumstances of your two marriages, both of which sounds like were invalid, those irregular marriages are no longer an impediment for your to return to full communion to the Church because your husbands are dead. Once a spouse dies all issues of validity or annulment cease and become moot. I presume you are not married a third time and so we do not need to consider that issue. Thus, since your husbands are dead, you may return to the Church and her Sacraments without any problem once making confession. You need to make a confession that covers all your serious sins since the last time you confessed (however long that might have been). Be sure to confess marrying outside of the Church since that was a sin. Once being absolved in the Sacrament of Confession, you are restored into full communion with the Church and may participate in the full Sacramental life of the Church. God Bless and welcome back, Bro. Ignatius Mary Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below: Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum. Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum

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No one will talk to me about what I need to do

Theresa

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

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Dear Bro. Ignatious

I wrote on this forum some weeks ago praying for an answer and received none. Perhaps I submitted incorrectly. My issues had to do with being brainwashed, held in an occult environment and a later happy marriage I made outside the church and could not annull. I have been through the archives on this forum and the occult forum and have found pieces of answers but some of them seem to contradict and some confuse.

My Parish Priest is elderly and will not talk to me about my issues. He dismisses me and acts as if I am gone. The priest in the next Parish tells me I need to talk to the priest in my own Parish. Where do I go from here?

The husband who involved me in the occult is dead by violence. The husband whom I married outside my faith is dead by illness. Can I make a true confession and be restored to the sacraments?

Has my church truly abandoned me?

Theresa

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM+

Dear Theresa:

Sorry about the glitch on your previous post. Sometimes things just get lost in cyberspace. I presume your previous post was one of them.

The Church has NOT abandoned you. The Church never abandons anyone. I am not sure why you have had such a hard time with getting a priest answer your question since the answer is easy and straightforward.

Regardless of the circumstances of your two marriages, both of which sounds like were invalid, those irregular marriages are no longer an impediment for your to return to full communion to the Church because your husbands are dead. Once a spouse dies all issues of validity or annulment cease and become moot.

I presume you are not married a third time and so we do not need to consider that issue.

Thus, since your husbands are dead, you may return to the Church and her Sacraments without any problem once making confession. You need to make a confession that covers all your serious sins since the last time you confessed (however long that might have been). Be sure to confess marrying outside of the Church since that was a sin.

Once being absolved in the Sacrament of Confession, you are restored into full communion with the Church and may participate in the full Sacramental life of the Church.

God Bless and welcome back,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

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Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum.
Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum
Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum
Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum
Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum