Holy Matrimony

Meaning of Holy Matrimony and the goal of sanctification. Two parts of the service of Holy Matrimony, The comparison between the love of a huband and wife to that of Christ and the Church, as well as the comparison between the Holy Trinity. Pre marital sex and divorce; Symbolism behind the crowns, rings, minnu, manthrakodi etc.

Teacher Training and Resources

Reference Materials

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Articles

  1. The Theology of Marriage and Sexuality, by By Fr. George Morelli (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America)
  2. Marriage, by Fr. Thomas Hopko (OCA)
  3. Pre-marital Sexual Relations, by Archpriest Joseph F Purpura (Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America)

Videos

Podcasts

  1. Marriage as a Path to Holiness, Kevin Allen (The Illumined Heart, Episode 134, Ancient Faith Radio)

Scripture

In order to help our children grow in the Orthodox Faith in North America, a decision was made to standardize all materials to the Orthodox Study Bible (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/016/2010, October 28, 2010). Please continue to pray and support the development of a fully approved translation based on the Peshitta, and our textbooks will educate on the various translations and historic development of Scripture.

  • [Genesis 2:24]

    "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.”

Liturgical Resources

The Ministry of Liturgical Resource Development (LRD) was created in July of 2015 (DSWA Kalpana DSWA/C/10/2015, July 24,2015) to promote the translation, versification, and publication of vital English liturgical resources. Today most of our Sacramental offices are available and the "Service Book of the Holy Qurbono" and "Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer" are available in print. Wherever possible references will be made using LRD resources given the easy access to these materials to the faithful in North America.

Full Liturgical Service

The Order of Second Marriage

Holy Qurbono


Other Hymns


Other Prayers


Promion and Sedro


Quotes

Patristic Quotes

  • [St. John Chrysostom] "The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears."
  • [St. John Chrysostom] “If a man and a woman marry in order to be companions on the journey from earth to heaven, then their union will bring great joy to themselves and to others.”

Other Quotes

  • [Unknown] According to Croatian tradition, when a couple gets ready to marry, they don't say they found the perfect person at church. Instead, the priest tells them, "You have found your cross. It's a cross to love, to take with you, a cross that is not thrown away, but is treasured"
  • [J.R.R. Tolkien] "For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him in the struggle; but the struggle remains. It will not satisfy him—as hunger may be kept off by regular meals. It will offer as many difficulties to the purity proper to that state as it provides easements.
  • [J.R.R. Tolkien] "No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial. Too few are told that—even those brought up 'in the Church’. Those outside seem seldom to have heard it. When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think that they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too often proves to be the next sexually attractive person that comes along. Someone whom they might indeed very profitably have married, if only—. Hence divorce, to provide the ‘if only’. And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgement concerning whom, amongst the total possible chances, he ought most profitably have married! Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the ‘real soul-mate’ is the one you are actually married to. In this fallen world, we have as our only guides, prudence, wisdom (rare in youth, too late in age), a clean heart, and fidelity of will…"

Syriac and Greek Words

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