The priest was mistaken to request you involve your “ex.”
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Think possibly he wanted meet because the children were not ‘involved’ ..... Since they were both married with kids, that ‘ship had sailed’.
In regards to the absolution, guess in that respect ‘they’ figured it never happened with the Confession ‘clearing the air’.
I will admit to probably having a ‘negative attitude’ when it came to going back BUT what with the Mass in English, Women with a very active role, Lay people distributing Communion, I sort of figured it was not the Catholic Church/Service I was raised with.
The ‘hug’ caught me way off guard and since the person standing next to me was NOT a good looking blond I almost ‘decked’ the guy when he ‘grabbed’ me for a hug - but when I looked around, I saw that I was the ‘different’ one.
Go to Latin Mass and you will find what you seek.
Pope Paul was the most presumptuous Pope in history. He had no right to revise the Mass in a wholesale manner.
Perhaps you could find a Mass celebrated according to the Mussel of 1962.
It’s still the Catholic Church—no matter how deformed and corrupt.