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junipersky
juniperskyTo keep it short, this weekend has been tought. We got some bad news regarding Taylor's sister. On the upside however, she's engaged. My job now- make sure when Taylor meets the soon-to-be brother-in-law, to keep him from punching said brother-in-law out. With all this going on and penta and cheyinka rambling about religion I thought I would join in.
The eternal family is an important part of our religion. Vitally important actually. When two people are married in the temple they covenant between one another and the Lord. These covenants are the strongest that a human can make on this word. When the sealer seales the covenants on the couple's heads (those are the words they use) the two people are bound together forever as husband and wife. Though all other mortal marriages end with "till death do ye part" there is no end to Temple Marriage.
Now, that is just what happens between the two people. When those two people have children the sealing is extended to them. This binds the family together for eternity. The only thing that breaks these bonds is iniquity or someone with the authority allowing the bonds to be broken (the only person on Earth who can authorize this is the Prophet. All Temple Divorces are overseen by him.) Now, lets extend this even further. These children get married in the temple. Now the sealing is extended between the parents, the children and their spouses. All of these people are sealed together in an eternal family.
Now, we do work for the dead that gives the opportunities for people to receive these sealings who did not have the opportunities in life. One of the biggest missions of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Now, back to the breaking on these bonds. We don't take it lightly. Temple Divorce is terrible and the only true reason for this is because of adultery. Even then the Church's official stance is that we ought to try to forgive the first time and allow the partner to attempt to repent. If the cycle does continue then the divorce might be granted. Some people who are in this situation will file a civil divorce until they find someone who will surely keep the covenants. The sealing is still in effect for that partner who is keeping the covenants they have made.
Am I making any sense?
Breaking the covenants = bad. Don't do it. Iniquity places a hole in the eternal family. That hole can only be repaired though repentance.
penta and cheyinka rambling about religion I thought I would join in.The eternal family is an important part of our religion. Vitally important actually. When two people are married in the temple they covenant between one another and the Lord. These covenants are the strongest that a human can make on this word. When the sealer seales the covenants on the couple's heads (those are the words they use) the two people are bound together forever as husband and wife. Though all other mortal marriages end with "till death do ye part" there is no end to Temple Marriage.
Now, that is just what happens between the two people. When those two people have children the sealing is extended to them. This binds the family together for eternity. The only thing that breaks these bonds is iniquity or someone with the authority allowing the bonds to be broken (the only person on Earth who can authorize this is the Prophet. All Temple Divorces are overseen by him.) Now, lets extend this even further. These children get married in the temple. Now the sealing is extended between the parents, the children and their spouses. All of these people are sealed together in an eternal family.
Now, we do work for the dead that gives the opportunities for people to receive these sealings who did not have the opportunities in life. One of the biggest missions of the gospel of Jesus Christ is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
Now, back to the breaking on these bonds. We don't take it lightly. Temple Divorce is terrible and the only true reason for this is because of adultery. Even then the Church's official stance is that we ought to try to forgive the first time and allow the partner to attempt to repent. If the cycle does continue then the divorce might be granted. Some people who are in this situation will file a civil divorce until they find someone who will surely keep the covenants. The sealing is still in effect for that partner who is keeping the covenants they have made.
Am I making any sense?
Breaking the covenants = bad. Don't do it. Iniquity places a hole in the eternal family. That hole can only be repaired though repentance.
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In Catholicism, I've come to believe, the provision that death ends the marriage is really sanity-saving, because theologically there's such an opposition to divorce (as in, it doesn't exist, period). Annulments, even though I've heard them called Church Divorces, are different: Unlike a divorce, which takes something that existed and breaks it, they declare that there was such an issue with the marriage, something so severe that the sacrament would never have been effected had it been known, such that it is declared that it never happened in the first place. (Children, for anybody keeping score at home, are still regarded as legitimate.) They're not for the faint of heart, either: It takes a full canonical trial for that to occur, with judges and lawyers and everything. Those are expensive in purely monetary terms, especially since (in dioceses in the US anyway) you generally must already have the civil divorce done, with all that that requires. Add in the fact that *every* annulment gets at least one appeal...And that appeals to the highest appellate levels in Rome are not unusual, with the process generally taking years...What it adds up to is that to annul a Catholic marriage, you must expend not-trivial amounts of time, effort, and money (dioceses don't have to charge fees, but virtually all do, as do canon lawyers and others involved) to convince multiple levels that the bond should be declared invalid. There are officials specifically tasked, even when the annulment is contested by neither partner, as "Defender of the Bond". In short, you have to jump a fairly high bar to get an annulment - and even then, the number granted by diocesan tribunals in the US is seen as too high.
Amidst all this is the reality that some marriages should never have been entered into in the first place, or that even if the marriage itself is happy, in-laws can make it difficult.
Hence, death terminates the bond. This is, to many people, a good thing. Past death, you don't *need* your partner, anyway. If you're to enter Heaven, you have eternity with God to look forward to.
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