Marriage

Clergy Wives on Sharing the Grace and Cross of Ordination

Clergy Wives on Sharing the Grace and Cross of Ordination

06 April 2012

The Crown of Glory

The Crown of Glory

17 January 2012

Archpriest Vladimir Berzonsky

I’m ever intrigued by the impressions that our sacred services have upon visitors who attend Orthodox worship for the first time. The most evident feature of our weddings is the use of imperial ...

Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay

Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay

05 July 2011

There are questions which we cannot avoid and from which we cannot hide in a fog of rhetorical questions and vague allusions. Basically, there is the question of whether single-sex cohabitation is a ...

Response To Myself

Response To Myself

04 July 2011

Given our Church’s biblical, patristic, liturgical and canonical sources one eventually detects that there is no universally consistent and accepted teaching on marriage as to its origin, purpose and ...

The Theology of Christian Marriage

The Theology of Christian Marriage

21 October 2010

Deacon Stephen Hayes

There was a saying that was common a few years back that illustrates this: “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”. This rejects the idea of “bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh” ...

Orthodox Christianity and the Idea of Homosexual Marriage

Orthodox Christianity and the Idea of Homosexual Marriage

23 September 2010

Fr. Chrysostom MacDonnell

Questions on Marriage and Cohabitation (Part II)

30 May 2010

Orthodoxy and the World

In my experience I’ve had couples who during preparation for the wedding did not know how many children they wanted to have (for example, she wanted only one child and he not less than six), had ...

Marriage: Investment, Covenant or Sacrament?

28 May 2010

Priest Richard Rene

Consider the following situation: you are shopping at the grocery store when you notice a young couple in the aisle ahead of you, filling their cart from a single list, stopping occasionally to ...

Questions on Marriage and Cohabitation (Part I)

25 May 2010

Orthodoxy and the World

Priests Fr. Richard Rene and Fr. Yaroslav Belikow, Sub-deacon Joseph Gingrich and Frederica Mathewes-Green answered Pravmir’s questions on marriage and cohabitation

The Husband is Head of the Wife?

18 December 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

The humiliation of the wife, the humiliation of the husband, the domestic violence, the lack of care to the spouse, neglecting the mutual servitude, and extinguishing the warmth of the common living ...

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