“A house is a little church… let your prayers be common. Let each go to Church; and let the husband ask his wife at home, and she again ask her husband, the account of the things which were said and read there …. Teach her that there is nothing in life that is to be [...]
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Married Ascetics Praying at Home
Posted in Marriage on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Babushki
Posted in Marriage, tagged babushka, catacomb church of russia, lives of women saints, women, women in the church on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“If it were not for women, who else would defend the Church?”- Bishop Damascene (Tsedrik)
Mysterium of Holy Matrimony
Posted in Marriage, tagged alms, Asceticism, chanting, diligence, enemy, Fasting, Marriage, matrimony, psalms, sickness, teaching on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Where the flesh is one, one is the spirit too. Together they pray, together prostrate themselves, together perform their fasts; mutually teaching, mutually exhorting, mutually sustaining. Equally are they both found in the Church of God; equally at the banquet of God; equally in straights; in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither hides from the other; neither [...]