SORRY, I SUPPORT JESUS CHRIST ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE - NOT MODERNISTS.

A theme I have written on before, marriage, became very personal the other day.   My granddaughter came in to show me how well she had done at her school concert.   She had sung a solo and played her violin.  She is also a member of the local cheerleading group.   We are forever praising her for her achievements.   My granddaughter has her two original parents who give her everything she needs.   She also has two sets of grandparents who adore her and she has never had to go to a nursery or care minder in her life.   Watching on was a friend she had brought with her.  She did none of these things my granddaughter did.   Her parents were divorced.  She does not see my granddaughter or the friends she had very much now since she floats between her father's house and her mother's.   I tried to take an interest in her but there was no subject in school she particularly liked and she has nothing to occupy her outside of school.    What a contrast in the two girls but nobody really cares, do they?   The coming Synod in Rome on the Family has been diverted into looking at the divorced and remarried and should they receive Holy Communion in order to be part of the Community, the position of homosexuals in the Church, and making the scandal of Annulments even more scandalous by making them easier.   Nobody is concerned with my grandaughter's friend, after all she will grow up and get over it like all those children in her circumstances do.    But already hurting and failing to achieve she will never achieve what she could have if she had been in the position of my granddaughter.   And the probability of her finding a happy marriage will be much less as the statistics show.   But no matter let us get on with looking after ourselves and loving our neighbour in the Church without bothering about those outside.   Jesus saw just how harmful divorce was to children who need the nurturing of loving parents which is why he was so adamantly against it.   But of course, today we are much more clever than he was.    I listened to a CofE minister talking about divorce recently and she was of the opinion that she had to marry second time couples after all they could not live with someone who is violent.  A wonderful way of avoiding the question.   Were there no violent husbands in the day of Jesus?  The majority of marriages break up through unfaithfulness and that was just as rife in the times of Jesus as it is today.  Our modern times are no different.   We are just weak and lazy, and a crowd of hypocrites.          

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