M. Dear M: These are excellent questions and very poignant ones. This can be a long and difficult process, but it is the only way for a divorced Catholic to receive communion. For more information, check out the Tribunal webpage at: https://aoaj.org/office-of-the-tribunal. And what are we all about? Divorced people are full members of the Church and are encouraged to participate in its activities. I have gone through Ministry Formation and taken classes at a local Catholic College. It was really a lot of fun. I was asked to do a census of the people who make up our parish community. The greatest of all sacraments is the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Otherwise, please know that you are always welcome to join us in worship. Those who are married in the Catholic Church, who are divorced, and then marry again without an annulment, allowing them to marry in the Church, are not to receive Communion until they have regularized their relationship with the Church. Put basically, it is the idea that Catholics who have divorced and remarried without an annulment should, in some circumstances, be admitted to Holy Communion without being required to live chastely. Mk 10:11ff.). | Irondale, AL 35210 |. FAITH Catholic. Technically, the latter requirement prohibits divorced Catholics who have remarried without obtaining an annulment from receiving Communion. May a divorced Catholic receive Holy Communion? This is always done best person to person. If your parents are getting divorced, its important to remember that they are still your parents and they still love you. A final note: Once the process is complete and if the Tribunal finds that the attempted marriage was invalid, any children born of that marriage are not illegitimate. Christ commanded His Church to lead all people to salvation. In these conditions, they can receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation and subsequently that of sacramental Communion. But it may happen that one of the divorced spouses, especially one who did not seek the divorce and tried to maintain the marital union, does not seek to marry anyone else for the rest of his or her life unless the other spouse dies. Copyright 2019-2023. Rather, it teaches that a Catholic who has been divorced and remarried, without having first obtained an annulment of the first marriage, is not permitted to receive the Eucharist. [CDATA[// >