My Husband Turned Me To His Maid

This Sunday it felt like the mass was meant specifically for me as the priest in his homily talked mostly on marriage and divorce. It made me feel more than uncomfortable in church, Although my mind was made up on the matter.

I was getting a divorce and I was not going to change it because of this sermon. I thought as I listened.

The sermon felt like it was planned because neither the readings nor the psalm had anything whatsoever to do with marriage or divorce so I had no idea where the priest who was Cletus's friend, imported his sermon from.

"According to Jesus, God's plan for marriage, established at the time of our creation, has now been restored, in Jesus's own divine mission of salvation, in Jesus Himself, and in His teaching, "let no man separate what God has joined together." Father preached.

Cletus seemed to be enjoying himself as he kept nodding during the homily. At a point he tried to hold my hand but by reflex I pulled my hands away before he could even touch me.

"Jesus says that now, after he has come to us, divorce followed by a re-marriage is always going to result in a situation of "a.d.u.l.tery." That is Jesus's own word! Divorce never dissolves the first marriage, as long as it is a valid marriage. Marriage is permanent! There is just no possibility of a second, valid marriage -- after a divorce of a first, valid marriage. In this, Jesus fulfills the Old Law! He completes the Old Law." The priest continued. At this point I could hear my heart beating rapidly in my c.h.e.s.t.

Then I had to ask myself one question. What If it was the will of Jesus that I remained married to Cletus for worse because honestly there was never a better? I did not ever want to go against God's will. I did not want to miss heaven by getting a divorce. Maybe I was meant to endure this till death. What if getting a divorce could make me go to hell? I thought.

"Jesus says that Moses gave you divorce, because of the hardness of your hearts, but only as a temporary expedient. "From the beginning it was not so." Rather, the Creator made us male and female, "the two shall become one flesh, no longer two, but one flesh." "

Hallelujah!" Cletus rejoiced. I fought the urge to puke.

The Lord cannot will that I suffer all the days of my life. As he has said his thought for me are of good and not of evil.

"Just as it is not possible to break the unity in Christ of his divinity and our humanity, so also it is not possible to break the marital unity of husband and wife, once established in a valid marriage, after the sacrament of matrimony. One flesh! Not really possible to divorce! It is only a pretense! Only an illusion!"

"Therefore, what God has joined together,let no human being separate." The priest concluded.

"We will be together forever," Cletus whispered in my ears. My eyes welled up. I had to kneel down on the kneeler and rest my head.

It was better I pretended that I was so touched by the sermon I started praying, than cry in front of the whole church.

Cletus could not win.

"All the couples should stand up for prayers as the Lord has revealed to me that a couple is about to separate. He asked that I pray for all couples here. Every wife hold your husband and every husband hold your wife. Almighty ever living God__," The priest started to pray. That was all I could take before my mind went blank.

I felt someone watching me after mass, when I looked back I saw him, "Sidhart." He was staring at me.