Family

Pre-marital Sexual Relations

23 October 2009

One of our goals ought to be to develop within the hearts and minds of teens that virginity is something very good, something to strive for until marriage, and something not to be embarrassed about ...

So Your Child Wants to Become a Monactic

22 October 2009

You may feel threatened. You spend your whole life nurturing the well-being of your children: you feed them and worry over them; you help them to discover their abilities and you encourage them to ...

Unequally Yoked

19 October 2009

Priest Chris Metropulos

We live in an age where “don’t I have a right to be happy” seems to be at the forefront of most everyone’s mind. Marriage is seen as a way of personal fulfillment and happiness. Relationships are ...

When Our Young Adult Chidren Marry Non-Christians: Parents’ Perspective

18 October 2009

Priest Charles Joanides

If you are a parent whose son or daughter is seriously dating or engaged to a non-Christian, some of the following suggestions and observations might prove helpful to you. They come from my work ...

Living Together before Marriage – the Theological and Pastoral Opportunities

09 October 2009

Adrian Thatcher

The phrase ‘living together before marriage’ makes certain basic assumptions . One of these is that marriage is a temporal event which gives credence to talk of ‘before’ and ‘after’: another is that ...

Holy Sexual Persons: Marital Relations in Orthodox Marriage

01 October 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

God created humans as sexual persons. There is no getting around this crucial point: "Have you not read that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For ...

The Beginning of the School Year: Some Questions for Parents to Think About

02 September 2009

admin

Accompanying our children’s education, there are some other areas with which parents need to concern themselves in relation to students’ spiritual and moral lives. Below are a few questions for ...

Redeeming the Time: What to do on Saturdays and Sundays

25 August 2009

Archpriest John Shimchick

I realize that due to our inability to serve more than one Sunday divine liturgy it is sometimes difficult to fit in some activities that get planned on Sunday morning. But if we allow our children ...

Irreconcilable Differences

13 August 2009

Priest Richard Rene

Divorce on the grounds of “irreconcilable differences” is generally not admissible in marriages between Orthodox Christians. Why not?

When one Spouse is a Convert, and the Other is Non-Orthodox

12 August 2009

Priest Charles Joanides

One of the hardest things was finding a place for myself in the Orthodox Church, then getting married, and trying to cultivate my own religious development while also helping my husband to adjust. He ...

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