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Text Box: makes use of such a divorce to marry again while the former husband or wife lives commits a sacrilege and lives in the sin of adultery unless a special dispensation has been granted or there was an impediment to the prior marriage or the prior marriage was received blasphemously. A civil divorce may give a sufficient reason for the persons to live apart and it may determine their rights with regard to support, the control of the children and other temporal things, but it has no effect whatever upon the bond and spiritual nature of the Sacrament. Q. 1025. Does not the Church sometimes allow husband and wife to separate and live apart? A. The Church sometimes, for very good reasons, does allow husband and wife to separate and live apart; but that is not dissolving the bond of marriage, or divorce as it is called, for though separated they are still husband and wife, and neither can marry again till the other dies or unless a special dispensation is made or it is determined the marriagfe was received invalidly or blasphemously. Q. 1026. Has not the Church sometimes allowed persons once married to separate and marry again? A. Yes, but this is rarely done, and in receiving a subsequent marriage the husband and wife are given penance which may include restrictions on receiving Holy Communion. The Church has also sometimes declared persons apparently married free to marry again, because their first marriage was null; that is, no marriage existed on account of some impediment not discovered till after the ceremony. Q. 1027. What evils follow divorce so commonly claimed by those outside the true Church and granted by civil authority? A. The evils that follow divorce so commonly claimed by those outside the true Church and granted by civil

Text Box: authority are very many; but chiefly: 1. A disregard for the sacred character of the Sacrament and for the spiritual welfare of the children; 2. The loss of the true idea of home and family followed by bad morals and sinful living. Q. 1028. Which are the effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony? A. The effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony are: 1st. To sanctify the love of husband and wife; 2nd. To give them grace to bear with each other's weaknesses; 3rd. To enable them to bring up their children in the fear and love of God. Q. 1029. What do we mean by bearing with each other's weaknesses? A. By bearing with each other's weaknesses we mean that the husband and wife must be patient with each other's faults, bad habits or dispositions, pardon them easily, and aid each other in overcoming them. Q. 1030. How are parents specially fitted to bring up their children in the fear and love of God? A. Parents are specially fitted to bring up their children in the fear and love of God: 1. By the special grace they receive to advise and direct their children and to warn them against evil; 2. By the experience they have acquired in passing through life from childhood to the position of parents. Children should, therefore, conscientiously seek and accept the direction of good parents. + WHY DO WE COLOR EGGS AT PASCHA (EASTER)? In solving certain questions for the Tzar (Emperor) of Russia, a learned man named Gwes Paisius. said, that when

Text Box: the Jews exclaimed "His blood be on us and on our children" (Matt. 27:25). everything they had in their houses at once tuned red, and consequently even the eggs. Hence, in remembrance of this miracle we too dye our eggs red at Eastertide, the occasion of the Resurrection then being celebrated. This miracle. he said, has come down to us through a tradition of old. (From: The Pedalion (Rudder), the One Hundred and Two Canons of the Holy and Ecumenical Sixth Council, Canon LXXXIX, Concord) The green colored eggs represent the Resurrection. +

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