You may have seen the recent letter from more than 450 priests in support of the Church’s teaching on marriage.
We
would like to invite you to sign the letter below, to be sent to the
press in support of them, and to encourage others to sign it.
To
sign, please leave your name and your diocese in the comments box
below, or if you prefer email them to me or to one of the coordinators:
Mark Lambert (mark@landbtechnical.com) or Andrew Plasom-Scott (andrewplasom_scott@me.com)
The Letter:
Dear Sir,
We,
the undersigned, wish to endorse and support the letter signed by over
450 priests in the recent edition of the Catholic Herald, http://bit.ly/19kuBkl
As
laity, we all know from our own family experiences, or those of our
friends and neighbours, the harrowing trauma of divorce and separation,
and we sympathise with all those in such situations.
It
is precisely for that reason that we believe that the Church must
continue to proclaim the truth about marriage, given us by Christ in the
Gospels, with clarity and charity in a world that struggles to
understand it.
For
the sake of those in irregular unions, for the sake of those abandoned
and living in accordance with the teachings of the Church, and above all
for the sake of the next generation, it is essential that the Church
continues to make it quite clear that sacramental marriage is
indissoluble until death.
We pray, and expect, that our hierarchy will represent us, and the Church’s unwavering teaching, at the Synod this autumn.
Yours faithfully,
1 comment:
Thanks for posting this, and thanks to all who have signed, via the blogs or by direct email. We are hoping to have 451 signatories to match the 451 priests by the end of Easter day: and we are nearly there.
We will be sending the letter to the Herald first thing on Monday.
Please encourage anyone else you know to sign by then.
Have a blessed Easter.
Andrew
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