Dana, who told you that you could not receive the sacraments? Please go back to them and tell them that they are wrong! I was divorced and recieved the Eucharist and Reconciliation. When my anullment was completed I later married. You may recieve the sacraments as long as you do not remarry before your marriage is annulled. Run to your parish as fast as you can for confession and then recieve the Eucharist!!! Blessings to you.

Dana, it's my understanding that divorced individuals can receive the Sacraments as long as they aren't remarried. You might want to check it out.

And remember Kevin, Jesus never excluded the marginalized, and neither are they excluded from the Catholic church, but he did say, "Go, and sin no more." He did not say, "I forgive you and just go on ahead and keep on sinning. He also said, about the excluded, that he had come to heal the sick, aka sinners. He did not choose to just leave them in their sin. We are all sinners in one way or another and must turn to the mercy of God, but we must also do our best to follow His way, not our way.

Kevin, it is painful to live in sin and not know it. the "marginalized" has become a loaded word. Its meaning has so many different connotations. If I am in sin, I cannot be fully embraced in all of the sacraments. The church is not loving if it just accepts your sin. I am a divorced woman. I am working on my annulment and I have good grounds. I hope it goes through. Until then, my husband and I accept that we cannot participate in the Eucharist or Confession. We have been asked to be lectors, but feel that we must wait until we are in full sacramental union, not because we have been told, but because we wish to live as Christ has taught. Anyone can be brought into full union with the church. If one is gay, and Catholics are supposed to be compassionate and loving of one who is, then the requirement is the same for all people. One cannot engage in the sexual act outside of marriage. Not even all heterosexual marriages are blessed in the church. For example, if one is incapable of sex or procreation BEFORE marriage, that marriage would not be sanctioned by the church. All people are required to be celibate outside of the marriage between a man and a woman, AND that must be a man and a woman able to engage in the sexual act and be able to procreate. This is not about rejecting or marginalizing. It is about loving, healing, and showing the right path. It CANNOT be about approving of sin, because it seems like a nice, compassionate thing to do. It tooks me several decades of study to fully understand this.

There is a nuancing of love that you are presenting that begs to be explored more deeply. The way it is presented here is painful when one considers those on the margins, the marginalized, either by society of the current Church. How this differs from the call of Matthew, or perhaps other of the apostles as well. In the way you have presented the topic, there is no concession made for the pastoral aspect of the marginalized, of whom Jesus never excluded. Perhaps another video to address the pastoral aspect of this conversation would be beneficial.