#12141 Can I Receive Communion If My Annulment Process Is Incomplete? - Rose Sweet

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

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Summary

What does the Church say about receiving the Eucharist if your annulment hasn’t been finalized? We explore this important question and also discuss healing after divorce, reuniting with a former spouse, and how to approach annulments with non-Catholic partners.

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Questions Covered:

18:42 – I’m in a civil marriage that needs an annulment on behalf of my wife. How do you get a non-Catholic to support the annulment process?
22:42 – I went through an annulment. I found it easiest to focus on writing out a draft and presenting it
32:10 – My annulment was the best thing that has happened to me. It allowed me to fully recognize my now Catholic Marriage.
37:34 – What do you think about the idea that more attention needs to be placed on the person who is not seeking out the annulment?
40:42 – I’m a good practicing Catholic and I don’t want a divorce, but I can’t handle the abuse, he’s a narcissist. What should I do?
44:21 – I’m 59 and my ex-husband remarried civilly. Should I seek out an annulment to help him out?
50:28 – Is it ok for me to receive communion even though I left the annulment process incomplete?
53:29 – I married my husband, we got a divorce and then got back together. Do I need an annulment?

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0:59.9	So get ready.
1:01.2	Second hour, Dr. David Anders will be here.
1:03.2	First hour, talk about beloved.
1:06.0	Rose Sweet is here with us.
1:08.3	Rose Sweet.
1:09.6	You know Rose because she comes on here and talks about marriage
1:12.9	and annulments and divorce and all that and she's done tons of that stuff. But one of my favorite
1:20.3	speakers, well, I've told you this many, many times. I absolutely was blown away the first time I
1:25.7	heard you give a talk just blown away.
1:27.9	It's very nice to have you here, Rose.
1:29.0	Thank you. It's really good to be here again.
1:30.8	We're going to talk about annulment.
1:32.6	We're going to talk about the ways people can throw up roadblocks to other people with annulment.
1:38.4	I just want to say thank you before we begin, if you don't mind, to the people at Arc of Heaven Media in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1:46.5	Oh, tell us about that. I learned an important lesson. First of all, I think Arkansas might be the
1:52.2	most polite state. The people are so nice there in Arkansas. Everybody makes you feel like they're just
1:57.0	so happy you're there. And maybe they're not.
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