This is a hot topic. Not sure if this had been asked before here but what do you do if a close family member comes out gαy and invites your family to their so called wedding?


The other members of your family go along with this. This puts you in a position where you might lose your family in terms of them ignoring you. Can you attend and sit way in back praying rosary With your wife and kids?   This is very tricky. How to explain it to kids?

Can't go to the reception either.

I have already lost two of my siblings to this issue.  They aren't ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs themselves but have friends they consider dear who are and the fact that I clearly disapprove has driven a wedge between us.  We communicate exceedingly rarely.

I would never attend such an event nor would I ever acknowledge it.  I would not place both names on any Christmas card or other correspondence.  I would not invite them to the house as a couple, though, frankly, my invitations to family would never be accepted anyway.  

This must be explained to the children in clear and uncompromising terms.  I think the failure to explain reality to the children is why so many children of the original SSPX faithful have no problem with a reconciliation with the Modernist Vatican--indeed, many are positively clamoring for it.  They really don't know why the SSPX exists as a separate entity (of course, I'm not sure Bishop Fellay really knows why either).

Just be grateful that you do not have to fear having your head removed from your shoulders as was the case of Saint Thomas More for refusing to recognize a divorce and remarriage.

By "gαy wedding", do you meaning "ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ marriage"? If so, there is no such thing.

A person could develop a pressing prior engagement, fake an illness. It is weak, but might seem a way to get peace.

What you should do, is tell both of them God hates them as they are abominations and will be surely burn in Hell for all eternity in just a few short years (if lucky, otherwise even tomorrow).

Also remind them that in the good old days they would have already been executed for their crime. Now I would attend that kind of event.

It's called Human respect:

legionofmarytidewater .com/news/news07/may/special.htm

           
 May 2007 Special - Frank Duff on Human Respect in Can We Be Saints

The danger of Human Respect is not sufficiently recognized. In almost every Catholic it is a weak spot. In the case of some, it is a defect so grave as to put real holiness out of the question. Human Respect may be defined as the putting of the opinion of others in the place of our conscience. It sets up ridicule and unpopularity as the thing most to be avoided even at the risk of offending against truth and principle. Beginning in small things, if constantly yielded to Human Respect brings about a general lowering of principle. A state of mind is reached which is as different from sanctity as chalk is from cheese.

You have always been in the habit of blessing yourself when at your meals. When not at home, through a form, of shame, you do not do this. This is Human Respect.

You always touch your hat as you pass a Church -except when with Protestants? You would not have a religious picture in your drawingroom. You are shy about making the Stations of the Cross. You would be mortified if your Rosary Beads fell from your pocket in Protestant company or in the bus. All these are signs of the disease we are discussing.

In a word, you are so taken up with making your conduct acceptable to others that you have no room for the thought that God might have been pleased by these little open professions of Faith. You have treated Him as the rich are supposed to treat their poor relations -acknowledging them in private, ignoring them in public.

In the life of St. Philip Neri, we read how that Saint was in the habit of imposing very humiliating penances upon his disciples in his anxiety to destroy in them any trace of this mean spirit. Such practices would nowadays be termed extreme. Here is a suggestion, which is not extreme. It will help anyone resolved upon the destruction of this failing . . . Wear openly something Catholic; some little devotional badge or emblem that will mark you as a Catholic, who is not ashamed to be known as one. The feeling of unwillingness to do this, which will come to many, is the best test of its value; it is the spirit you seek to kill that is protesting in you.

Such objection as: "I don't believe in badge-wearing," and "I don't believe in making a parade of my religion," are usually not sincere. Those who speak in this way seldom seem to have any objection to wearing political or trade badges. Be honest with yourself. The trouble is that you are not really proud of being a Catholic. It is human nature to publish the fact if you are.

The priest and the nun advertise themselves to the world for what they are. Let the laity also, in the little ways that are open to them, confess Christ before men that He may one day confess them before His Father in Heaven. But in this let there be wholesome moderation. Do nothing that will earn for yourself the name of mere eccentricity.

This is a hot topic. Not sure if this had been asked before here but what do you do if a close family member comes out gαy and invites your family to their so called wedding?


The other members of your family go along with this. This puts you in a position where you might lose your family in terms of them ignoring you. Can you attend and sit way in back praying rosary With your wife and kids?   This is very tricky. How to explain it to kids?

I can guarantee you that I would be unavoidably out of town that day.